Whistleblowing cop locked up in psych ward for trying to expose police corruption

[MrScorpio]

Whistleblowing cop slaps NYPD with $50 million suit for locking him up in psych ward

BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU CHIEF

Tuesday, August 10th 2010, 4:00 AM

A police whistleblower is suing the NYPD for $50 million for locking him up in a psych ward after he accused his bosses of tampering with crime stats.

Brooklyn cop Adrian Schoolcraft claims his bosses wanted to wreck his reputation because he had proof they were fudging numbers at the 81st Precinct.

"They wanted to intimidate and silence him," said Schoolcraft's lawyer, Jon Norinsberg. "And they wanted to destroy his credibility so that no one would believe him when he went public with his charges."

The NYPD has portrayed the 35-year-old Bedford-Stuyvesant cop as a bumbling, unstable officer.

He spent six days under psychiatric observation at Jamaica Hospital after a confrontation with cops who came to his Queens home on Halloween. Cops say he went AWOL from work.

The suit, to be filed in Manhattan Federal Court Tuesday, says precinct brass had plenty of reasons to want Schoolcraft locked away.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/08/09/2010-08-09_brooklyn_whistleblowing_cop_slaps_nypd_with_50m_suit_for_locking_him_up_in_psych.html

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. K&R

[LostinVA]

2. It's like the Soviet Union n/t

[CreekDog]

8. It's like Los Angeles!

:hide:

[LostinVA]

11. You West Coasties take the cake

What's teh MHU out tehre today?

[mrs_p]

3. k&r

though, from the title, i thought they locked him up b/c he was whistling :-)

[seabeyond]

4. recommended for the whistle blowing cop. downgrading crimes, and not encouraging or wanting

reported crime.

one of the issues nation wide. when fbi stats are coming back lower and lower, more areas in the nation are saying this is happening.

good for him

[happy_liberal]

5. we need more like him

:applause:

[JuniperLea]

6. K&R!!

How frustrating... someone needs to find who gave this order and lock them the hell up!

:banghead:

[glitch]

7. AWOL?!?! so they came to pick him to take him to WORK?? WTF??

Oh man does this guy appear to have a case.

edit: when are NYC taxpayers going to get fed up with paying for cop lawsuits and clean up their police force?

[malaise]

9. Serpico

Version 2.

[asdjrocky]

10. He's the 1%. nt

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. He's my new hero.

I hope he gets every penny of that 50 mil.

[EFerrari]

13. This is an amazing story and irrc, there was a spread about it

-- maybe this one in The Village Voice:

The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct
By Graham Rayman
published: May 04, 2010

Two years ago, a police officer in a Brooklyn precinct became gravely concerned about how the public was being served. To document his concerns, he began carrying around a digital sound recorder, secretly recording his colleagues and superiors.

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.

They reveal that precinct bosses threaten street cops if they don't make their quotas of arrests and stop-and-frisks, but also tell them not to take certain robbery reports in order to manipulate crime statistics. The tapes also refer to command officers calling crime victims directly to intimidate them about their complaints.

As a result, the tapes show, the rank-and-file NYPD street cop experiences enormous pressure in a strange catch-22: He or she is expected to maintain high "activity"—including stop-and-frisks—but, paradoxically, to record fewer actual crimes.

http://www.villagevoice.com/content/printVersion/1797847/