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Comments (0) Best Whistleblower - 2010

Adrian Schoolcraft

Adrian Schoolcraft was a Brooklyn police officer who secretly recorded his supervisors in Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct and brought New Yorkers an unprecedented, intimate look behind the Blue Wall of Silence. That glimpse revealed that street cops are under intense pressure to arrest people for doing little or nothing at all, while at the same time intimidating victims of actual crimes from filing complaints?all in the name of manipulating crime statistics. The revelations in Schoolcraft's tapes have sparked numerous official investigations and lawsuits as well as an increased scrutiny of the NYPD and its obsession with statistics. For his efforts, the NYPD hauled Schoolcraft off in handcuffs to a psychiatric ward for six days, and tried to discredit him. But his tapes backed up everything he said.

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stella felder
stella felder

i would like mr schoolcraft to e-mail me at missstellaf@msn.com its urgent

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