Village Voice: NYPD officer tapes colleagues for 18 months, exposes corruption

[TalkingDog]

And do they thank him? Nooooooo...... They stick him in a psych ward.


He recorded precinct roll calls. He recorded his precinct commander and other supervisors. He recorded street encounters. He recorded small talk and stationhouse banter. In all, he surreptitiously collected hundreds of hours of cops talking about their jobs.

Made without the knowledge or approval of the NYPD, the tapes—made between June 1, 2008, and October 31, 2009, in the 81st Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant and obtained exclusively by the Voice—provide an unprecedented portrait of what it's like to work as a cop in this city.


http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-05-04/news/the-nypd-tapes-inside-bed-stuy-s-81st-precinct/1

Selections of the tapes online at the site.

[ZombieHorde]

1. This part is pretty funny...

"...and something called "cocking the memo book," a practical joke in which officers draw penises in each other's daily notebooks.

"As far as the defacing of department property—all right, the shit on the side of the building . . . and on people's lockers, and drawing penises in people's memo books, and whatever else is going on—just knock it off, all right?" a Sergeant A. can be heard saying. "If the wrong person sees this stuff coming in here, then IAB is going to be all over this place, all right? . . . You want to draw penises, draw them in your own memo book. . . And don't actually draw on the wall."

[TalkingDog]

4. Monkey stuff: dominance behavior.

Groups of men are going to settle out the pecking order, usually using sexual imagery or language.

[mopinko]

7. +1

one of these days we will fully accept evolution, and then we can start to understand what it means to be naked apes. it sure changed the way i see the world.

[mrbarber]

6. Drawing penises? Wow, goes to show the average cops mindset.

That stopped being funny in 5th grade.

[TalkingDog]

2. kicking for the thorough coverage of the Village Voice on an important story

kick

[Blue_Tires]

3. Somewhere Frank Serpico is smiling...

[conscious evolution]

5. Fucking pigs

And they want us to think they are interested in justice.BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHAHAHAHA

[bettyellen]

9. too bad actually it's the fucking mayor and top brass that are behind this and the cops hate it

[bettyellen]

8. this is what Giuliani did to the NYPD

[Echo In Light]

10. Real shocker that they're all for spending time drawing penises in each other's logs

Says a lot, and on different levels

The Obsessed-To Protect And To Serve

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fljtqUDwoKw

[Scurrilous]

11. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Echo In Light]

12. Bump

[Wilms]

13. Same guys who rape with sticks.

There are a lot of good cops.

And there's the rest.