Adrian Schoolcraft

Steven Mauriello, NYPD Tapes Precinct Commander, Denies Quotas in Stop and Frisk Trial

At times combative, the former commander of Brooklyn's 81st Precinct testified yesterday in the stop and frisk class action lawsuit that he never approved of quotas, even when confronted with recordings of him and his supervisors ordering officers to make certain numbers. Deputy Inspector Steven Ma ... More >>

Deputy Chief Michael Marino in Stop and Frisk Trial: 'Do Your Job or Suffer the Consequences'

When then-NYPD Capt. Michael Marino arrived as a commander in the tough section of Brooklyn known as East New York, he was appalled at what the 400 officers in the command considered to be work. "They were doing five [summonses] a month, which was just not enough to address the problem," he testif ... More >>

Pedro Serrano, Second Whistleblower Cop, Testifies In Stop and Frisk Trial; Council Moves Toward Independent Monitor

A second police officer took the witness stand today to testify that illegal quotas for arrests, summons and stop and frisks drove his precinct's crime strategy. Pedro Serrano worked in the same Bronx precinct as Officer Adhyl Polanco, who testified on Tuesday in the class action lawsuit challengin ... More >>

Ray Kelly, Mike Bloomberg Facing Stiff Test In Upcoming Stop and Frisk Trial, Starting Monday

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has served the city for 11 years. Mayor Bloomberg is in the final year of his third term. Next week, the legacies of both men will be tested in a major trial starting Monday over the city's stop and frisk campaign. The case is a class action lawsuit filed in 2008 calle ... More >>

Lawyers for Whistleblower Cop Slap Queens District Attorney Richard Brown With A Subpoena

Lawyers for whistleblower cop Adrian Schoolcraft today served Queens District Attorney Richard Brown with a subpoena demanding that he give a videotaped deposition and turn over all documents related to Brown's finding that there was no criminal conduct when Schoolcraft was forcibly removed from his ... More >>

Craig Matthews, Police Officer, Has His Quota Lawsuit Reinstated by Federal Appeals Court

In a surprising turn of events, a federal appeals court this week reinstated Police Officer Craig Matthews' free speech lawsuit over the police department's quota system that had been dismissed in district court. Matthews, by the way, was one of the officers who fired the fatal shots in taking down ... More >>

New Evidence Emerges About Police Downgrading of Crimes

Accounts of police downgrading crime reports surfaced again on Sunday in a New York Times article, which compared descriptions of crimes in police reports versus the charges eventually brought by prosecutors. The article's author Joseph Goldstein examined more than 100 police reports, and found a n ... More >>

10 Lawsuits Against The NYPD That You Should Know About

Yesterday, the Voice reported on a lawsuit filed against the NYPD, which alleges that the department's "Dead or Likely To Die" accident policy leads to botched investigations. But this is hardly the only suit to hit the department recently. So we have put together a guide to ten key court claims ... More >>

NYPD Tapes: Federal Judge Lets Quota Lawsuit Go Forward

We learned last night that a federal judge has granted class certification to a lawsuit which claims the NYPD's quota policy is unconstitutional and results in summonses and stop and frisks being done without probable cause. The lawsuit, which could turn into a fairly big problem for Mayor Bloomber ... More >>

Robert Borrelli, NYPD Sergeant, Adds Voice to Other Cops Citing Crime Victims Being Ignored

A Queens police sergeant, Robert Borrelli, has added his voice to other cops who say crime is being systematically downgraded throughout the NYPD. Borrelli says that he tried to report this downgrading by two commanders in a Far Rockaway precinct, but was transferred for his efforts. He also claims ... More >>

The New York Times Weighs In On the NYPD Tapes

Jim Dwyer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times has done a second column on the Adrian Schoolcraft affair. His column published yesterday details the exchange between Schoolcraft and Deputy Chief Michael Marino right before Marino ordered him taken forcibly to the Jamaica Hosp ... More >>

NYPD's Reporting Problem

Reactions to our 'NYPD Tapes' confirmation came like a swift billy club to the skull

NYPD, Mayor's Office Bizarrely Mum On NYPD Tapes Revelations

Well, so far, two days after the Voice disclosed the results of a secret NYPD investigation which vindicated Police Officer Adrian Schoolcraft's allegations about the downgrading of crimes, the NYPD has been officially silent, but for one brief comment from its spokesman. The mayor's office hasn't s ... More >>

The NYPD Tapes Confirmed

The report police hid for nearly two years that corroborates a Voice investigation — and vindicates a whistle-blower the NYPD tried to destroy

This Week in the Voice: The NYPD Tapes Confirmed

This week in the Voice, out today: Graham Rayman revisits the NYPD tapes, detailing a report corroborating whistleblower Adrian Schoolcraft's complaints about police misconduct: "In other words, at the same time that police officials were attacking Schoolcraft's credibility, refusing to pay him, and ... More >>

Ray Kelly, NYPD, Sued For Refusing to Release Crime Stats From Scandal-Tained Brooklyn Precinct

​Continuing its record of stone-walling public inquiry, the NYPD is refusing to release crime statistics for the past 11 years from the scandal-tainted 81st Precinct in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. As a result, the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit this week asking ... More >>

Ray Kelly, Yet Another New Yorker Is Claiming His Crime Complaint Was Improperly Downgraded

​Tonight marks the two-year anniversary of the night that NYPD brass dragged Police Officer Adrian Schoolcraft from his apartment and forced him into the Jamaica Hospital Psychiatric Ward.--an episode which was the subject of the award-winning Village Voice series, "The NYPD Tapes." Schoolcra ... More >>

Spinning Out of Control

Paul Browne's mouth finally starts getting him into trouble

The NYPD Tapes, Voice Series, Cited in Federal Lawsuit Alleging False Arrests

​The Village Voice's NYPD Tapes series is being cited in a lawsuit filed on behalf of two brothers ticketed and detained twice in 2010 and 2011 in Brooklyn's 81st Precinct. Scott and Stephen Faine allege they were arrested as part of a quota driven by the precinct commanders in the 81st, whic ... More >>

Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Where Are the Results of That Review on the Crime Statistics?

​In January, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly promised to release the results of what he called an independent examination of the city's crime statistics. He said the effort by three former federal prosecutors would take six months. Well, it's been exactly six months, and still no word from ... More >>

Adrian Schoolcraft To Meet With Queens Prosecutors Next Month

​The Queens District Attorney has scheduled a sit-down early next month with the police officer who was dragged by police to a psychiatric facility and held for six days, after reporting allegations of misconduct to NYPD investigators, the Voice has learned. The meeting could be an indicatio ... More >>

Graham Rayman's "NYPD Tapes" Series Wins Gold Keyboard, NY Press Club's Highest Award

​The 2010 Village Voice series, "The NYPD Tapes," has won the New York Press Club's Gold Keyboard award for outstanding enterprise or investigative reporting. The Gold Keyboard is the top honor the press club gives each year.   The series kicked off in May last year and was written by staff w ... More >>

Adrian Schoolcraft, Police Officer, Wins Round One In Legal Battle With City, Jamaica Hospital

​Adrian Schoolcraft, the police officer forced into the Jamaica Hospital psychiatric ward by police three weeks after he reported misconduct to investigators, has won round 1 in his legal battle against the city. Schoolcraft's saga was the subject a five-part Village Voice series published la ... More >>

Ray Kelly, Police Commissioner, Signs Off on Penalty for Deputy Chief in Steroid Case

​Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly signed off on taking 30 vacation days from a high-ranking police official -- and main character in the Adrian Schoolcraft saga -- who was found guilty last fall of steroid and/or human growth hormone possession. Deputy Chief Michael Marino, was also placed ... More >>

Adrian Schoolcraft: The Other NYPD Scandal In The Room

​As the NYPD girds itself for the looming revelations of a wide-ranging ticket fixing scandal which could envelope up to 400 police officers and union delegates, there is another scandal that has been somewhat overlooked by the local media, but is equally toxic to the department's public image ... More >>

Queens DA Taking a Look At How NYPD Whistleblower Wound Up in Psych Ward [Update]

​It looks like Queens District Attorney Richard Brown is taking renewed interest at the events surrounding how the NYPD wound up forcing Officer Adrian Schoolcraft into the Jamaica Hospital psychiatric ward for six days back in late 2009. Last week, Leonard Levitt, who writes an internet col ... More >>

NYPD Internal Memo Offers Mixed Message on the New Law Prohibiting Quotas

​Using some bureaucratic sleight of hand, the NYPD has issued written advice for cops on the new quota law passed by the state Legislature earlier this year. While noting that quotas are illegal and denying that the department indulges in them or penalizes cops for not making them, a November ... More >>

Ray Kelly Taps Deputy Inspector To "Reinvestigate" NYPD Tapes allegations

​In yet another step in the ongoing fallout from the Voice's "NYPD Tapes" series, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has tapped a deputy inspector to reinvestigate allegations by Police Officer Adrian Schoolcraft about misconduct in Brooklyn's 81st Precinct. The appointment of Deputy Inspector Dan ... More >>

NYPD Tapes Scandal A "Giant Oil Spill" Ray Kelly Can't Contain, Criminologists Say

​Two criminal justice professors weighed in today with their take on the NYPD's decision to appoint a deputy inspector to reinvestigate the Adrian Schoolcraft allegations. John Eterno and Eli Silverman, who are writing a book about the PD's Compstat system, say Commissioner Ray Kelly just is ... More >>

NYPD Tapes Fallout: Ex-Precinct Commander, Four Underlings Charged With Manipulating Crime Stats

​The NYPD has filed charges against the former commander of the 81st Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and four other supervisors for manipulating crime statistics. The charges follow a five part series in the Village Voice, which exposed the practice based on digital recordings made ... More >>

The NYPD Tapes: The Folks at The Associated Press Offer Their Take

​Well, the Associated Press has gotten around to writing its own take-out on the case of Adrian Schoolcraft, the police officer who supplied secret recordings to the Village Voice, which exposed questionable practices inside the NYPD. Those recordings became the centerpiece of the Voice's five ... More >>

The Village Voice's NYPD Tapes on This American Life (Audio)

​We may not have been noted by certain other New York media outlets for Graham Rayman's groundbreaking series, The NYPD Tapes, but there's one outlet that did manage to get the story of Graham's story correct: NPR and Chicago Public Radio's long-running, cult-following fueled This American Lif ... More >>

The NYPD Tapes and New York's Dailies: An Annotated History

Click to Enlarge.​​February 2, 2010: The New York Daily News reports on a suspended NYPD officer named Adrian Schoolcraft, who alleges widespread downgrading of crimes in the NYPD's 81st Precinct. No mention of the existence of audio tapes is made.

Ray Kelly's Spokesman Paul Browne Denies "Quotas," Union Boss and Crime Commission Chief Beg To Differ

​Citizens Crime Commission President Richard Aborn and police union president Patrick Lynch offered their takes this afternoon on the newest of the "NYPD Tapes," which reveal precinct commanders threatening to penalize officers who don't hit their quotas. "My belief is that quotas are not go ... More >>

*New* NYPD Tapes: "We're Gonna Get Our Cojones Busted In For Patrol's Activity," Precinct Bosses Say

​A new set of recordings made in April and May in Brooklyn's 81st Precinct and obtained by the Voice capture the precinct's commanders and their mid-level bosses discussing how to pressure the rank-and-file to hit their quotas. In the new recordings, the precinct commander lashes out at under ... More >>

NYPD Big Caught in the NYPD Tapes Should be Suspended, Department Judge Rules

​A deputy chief in the NYPD should be suspended for 30 days and get probation for breaking department rules on using human growth hormone, an administrative law judges has ruled. As the Village Voice has reported, Deputy Chief Michael Marino is already under investigation over whether he br ... More >>

Ray Kelly Hears It From Brooklyn Politicians Over Stop-and-Frisks

​Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was challenged on the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy in a recent meeting with Brooklyn politicians, the Voice has learned. In a meeting described as "somewhat tense," Kelly told a group of elected officials that the department is using stop and frisks--which have ... More >>

Voice's NYPD Tapes to Get a Hearing by FBI Officials

By Michael Cohen ​FBI officials will hear excerpts from the recordings of police bosses' harangues at street cops to manipulate crime stats, revealed in the Voice's NYPD Tapes series, when two criminologists present their research at a crime data conference at John Jay College later today. P ... More >>

Graham Rayman Talks About the NYPD Tapes on the Brian Lehrer Show

​Voice staff writer Graham Rayman spoke on the Brian Lehrer show today about the latest in our ongoing investigative series, the NYPD Tapes. Listen to their discussion here. And if you haven't, read installment 5, from this week's issue of the Voice, in which a Bronx cop corroborates Adrian Sc ... More >>

NYPD Tapes 5: The Corroboration

Another police officer secretly tapes his precinct—this time in the Bronx

NYPD Tapes Fallout: Precinct Commander and Deputy Chief Under Investigation

​In the wake of the Voice's "NYPD Tapes" series, police are investigating the conduct of a precinct commander and a deputy chief in connection with events at the 81st Precinct in Brooklyn, and the decisions that led a department whistle blower to be dragged from his home in handcuffs and place ... More >>

New York Mag and Other Media Offer Their Takes on NYPD Whistleblower's Lawsuit

​The word, reported here yesterday in Runnin' Scared, that NYPD whistleblower Adrian Schoolcraft was filing a $50 million lawsuit against the NYPD and Jamaica Hospital was picked up this morning by colleagues at other news organizations.

Ray Kelly's Top Spokesman Paul Browne Present When NYPD Whistleblower Hauled to Psych Ward, Lawsuit Says

​Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly's top aide Paul Browne, the department spokesman, was present when cops forcibly hauled NYPD whistleblower Adrian Schoolcraft to the Jamaica Hospital psychiatric ward, a lawsuit to be filed this week alleges. If proven true, Browne's presence at Schoolcraft ... More >>

Demo A.G. Candidates Heap Praise on Voice's "NYPD Tapes" Series

​By Gavin Aronsen All five Democratic attorney general hopefuls praised Voice staff writer Graham Rayman's continuing "NYPD Tapes" series about police abuses when they debated Thursday night at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. The exposé has revealed that brass in Bedford-Stuyvesant's ... More >>

"NYPD Confidential" Offers Its Take on the Voice's "NYPD Tapes" Series

​Leonard Levitt, the highly regarded police reporter who writes the internet column "NYPD Confidential," offers his own take on the Police Department's handling of the case of Adrian Schoolcraft, the police officer who tried to report corruption and paid for it with a six-day stint in a mental ... More >>

NYPD Tapes 4: The WhistleBlower, Adrian Schoolcraft

He wanted his bosses to know about NYPD misconduct. So they put him in a mental ward

NYPD Officer Captured Talking about Cases Being Routinely Downgraded

​On March 27, 2009, NYPD officer Adrian Schoolcraft taped a conversation with a fellow police officer in the 81st Precinct. On the recording, the officer can be heard talking about responding to a call of a man who claimed that his car had been stolen. A precinct supervisor soon arrived, the ... More >>

The NYPD Tapes Series: The Cliff Notes Version

By Graham Rayman In the first and second articles so far in our NYPD Tapes series, the Voice has documented and chronicled a range of highly questionable NYPD practices. Here we offer a Cliff Notes version of what the articles showed, based on the unprecedented recordings of 117 roll calls made ... More >>

The NYPD Tapes, Part 2

Bed-Stuy street cops ordered: Turn this place into a ghost town

The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct