NYPD Cop Secretly Records Evidence of Arrest Quota System - Absolute. Must. Watch.

[tomm2thumbs]

A very brief but important documentary of how the NYPD abused citizens in the name of quotas, and how one honest cop exposed it -- and what other officers, including command staff, did to silence him.



Produced by ESPN and FiveThirtyEight. (yes, the Nate Silver group)

A powerful indictment of the NYPD,
corrupt systems and the people who
crossed the line to silence the truth.

Click bold link immediately below for video:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-nypd-abused-citizens-in-the-name-of-data-and-how-one-cop-exposed-it-all/


What fellow officers did to silence him
will make you aghast. Must watch the
ending - actual audio. Straight out of
Three Days of the Condor.
















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YouTube video below is simply a video from a news report done in 2010
-- the main video & subject of the story is above at the bold link --

* I also just noticed this story was linked earlier in thread about a shooting in Texas (by JonLP24) "Crime By The Numbers" - July 2015, but wanted to post in media as it really deserves to be seen.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/nyregion/whistle-blower-police-officer-had-backup-secret-recordings.html
New York Times Article

[AuntPatsy]

1. Bookmarking for later viewing

[jwirr]

2. Good for that policeman. Finally.

[Plucketeer]

6. Well - not so good for him - actually

He's a hero of sorts in my book. But like so many whistleblowers, he's paid one hell of a price for shining a beam of light on the cockroach enclave.

Even here - in the rural setting where I've resided for 26 years - I've experienced the ludicrousness of police who are so inept as to be more of a detriment to our society than a plus. When you hang a badge and a gun on ignorant rubes (which Schoolcraft wasn't!), justice will be tough to serve.

[jwirr]

7. Oh, I am sure they will retaliate. Nothing changes.

[Plucketeer]

10. I blew the whistle severl times

when I wor5ked in the aircraft industry. Heh - I was always the one to suffer the most for my speaking out. NO body likes having their boat rocked. Not the customer - not the provider.

I always thought about the unknowing that were gonna take those planes to 30,000 feet.

[jwirr]

15. Being a whistleblower is very much like being a radical

politician today. If you do not play the game you get no support. Yet we need the whistleblower or we are not going to be safe.

Thank you for standing up.

[Dustlawyer]

12. This is what gets me. People here at DU want to just blame cops for not coming forward.

It's not easy to do the right thing knowing you will face financial ruin and risk your life and those of your family to turn in the bad apples. We need to push for better policing by pushing up top at the Mayor and Chief level, not expecting these guys to be unrealistically brave, it's just not going to happen on a regular basis.

[tecelote]

14. I don't know about all areas but, I know that some deputies in our area...

are barely paid over minimum wage and live paycheck to paycheck. Most of them have families and their wives work.

Shouldn't people that risk their lives get paid well? Maybe that would change things a bit.

[Pharaoh]

3. WHAT'S A 250?

[tomm2thumbs]

4. from what I gather

The "250" is used within the New York Police Department, the right to stop, question and pat down anyone an officer deems 'reasonably suspicious'... but was done, as recordings indicate, at random to make quotas.

[NutmegYankee]

9. The form used to document a Stop and Frisk. nt

[Ed Suspicious]

11. A "Stop and Frisk" I think.

[marble falls]

5. Great 'This American Life' episode about this including excerpts from the tapes.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/right-to-remain-silent

[markpkessinger]

8. Here is a must-read exposé from the Viilage Voice (2010)

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/the-nypd-tapes-inside-bed-stuys-81st-precinct-6429434

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. Wow. They locked him up in a psych ward to discredit him....

I smell MAJOR lawsuit.

Good thing he kept his recordings away from these guys or he could have been disappeared.

[Stellar]

16. Whoa...a crook in a blue uniform is still a crook.

They all need to go down!