NYPD Whistle blower secretly records evidence of a ticket & arrest quota system

[Xicano]

NYPD officer Adrian Schoolcraft secretly records NYPD top brass giving orders that tickets must be written and arrest must be made or there will be hell to pay. He goes on to say that orders were given to harass people so vigorously that they will not even want to step foot outside in fear of being arrested or ticketed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwAQX0SWlhY

[FiveGoodMen]

1. To protect and serve

FUCK THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS.

They should all be behind bars.

In the General Population.

With all that implies.

[Towlie]

3. Ah, but to protect and serve WHAT? That's the tricky part.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. You're exactly right.

The list of those deserving protection has been changed.

Ironically, most of those who've been taken off the list were only too happy to support those who took them off.

[bemildred]

2. Damn cell phones.

:thumbsup:

[Nevernose]

5. His superiors actually tried to involuntarily commit him

Claiming his accusations were paranoid and insane. They didn't know he'd recorded it all. I can't really copy and post the link right now (I'm on my cell phone at the doctor's office), but the Village Voice had a mutlipart series on this last year. Worth your time to google it.

[lonestarnot]

11. So they could fry his brain with some kind of drugs so he would forget everything no doubt.

[SouthernLiberal]

6. Is anyone actually surprised?

In NYC, it has been proven over and over and over again, that the police are not capable of monitoring their own behavior. Left to themselves, with only mayoral level direction, the police will misbehave. I don't say that because I believe all cops are evil, or even most. It is just the nature of that kind of supervision.

The mayor has political needs, any mayor does. He or she wants to be able to say that "crime is down due to the fine work of our police department" or alternatively "budget cuts at the police department have led to a distressing increase in crime'. Nothing complicated. They want numbers that will prove their particular political police theory.

The demand for clear, simple numbers makes it's way all the way down the chain of command. And nobody at the top is paying any attention to anything else.

Until someone in the police department has had enough. And then, every time, the city's top leadership is (to quote a well known film) "Shocked, shocked!

[fascisthunter]

7. knew it all these years

now we have proof. What an idiotic system we have...

[NutmegYankee]

8. Officer Schoolcraft demonstrated that he wants to protect and serve the public.

The men who suspended him on the other hand...

[backscatter712]

9. 99.9% of police officers give the other 0.1% a bad name... n/t

[DCKit]

10. Y'all shou'd'a seen Orlando, FL in the early 80's.

Quota, quota, quota. Fascists.

I can't imagine how much worse it would have been if I were black or hispanic.

[sarcasmo]

12. Revenue makers.