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Unbelievable that this type of corruption not only exists in the modern era but is actively encouraged and sanctioned from the top. Police officers forced into mental institutions in an effort to discredit them? It sounds like something out of a novel rather then the actual happenings at a major American Police Department. For those of us who are constantly bombarded by so called `news stories' from places like Yahoo, it is refreshing and comforting to see that real investigative journalism is not dead. Graham Rayman is the type of journalist I haven't seen since Mike Wallace, a real old school reporter not afraid to get his hands dirty and dig for the truth. Hats off to Officer Schoolcraft and Graham Rayman for bringing this shocking travesty of modern policing to the public eye.
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Kenneth Ellman Reviews The NYPD Tapes by Rayman and Schoolcraft January 13, 2014, Email:ke@kennethellman.com, Box 18, Newton, N J 07860
There seems to be a consistency in human behavior where an eternal conflict exists between those who seek exposure of errors, violations and crimes with those who seek to conceal such. It is not just that wrongdoers or criminals seek concealment, but that those in positions of overall authority, from Mayors to Commissioners or other senior executives who should encourage such revelations, instead seek to prevent exposure of institutional failings.
So here in this book we have the factual telling of what happened to New York City Police Officer Adrian Schoolcraft who was and is attacked, illegally imprisoned and targeted by our “government” for revealing that the Police Department concealed crimes and by such concealment protected criminals and injured the cause of Justice. There are two aspects to what the City of New York did to its own people.
First the NYC Government attacked a courageous New York City Police Officer, Adrian Schoolcraft, who recorded and documented the deliberate concealment of crime in New York City and when he exposed this extraordinary corruption those men sworn to protect us, attacked him. He was actually kidnaped from his home where senior executives of the NYCPD authorized the break in of his house and his transportation to Jamaica Hospital in Queens County, NYC where he was illegally detained for days. That is why I always say reality is stranger than fiction.
This kidnaping was merely one aspect of continual illegal acts to prevent his disclosure of concealment of crime reports and various criminal acts in New York City.Read more ›
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I recommend this for anyone who lives in NYC! It truly shines a light on the harsh retaliation NYPD whistle blowers endure, at the hands of their brothers and sisters in blue.
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What if you knew that senior police officials were breaking the law? What if you gathered evidence against them by recording their conversations? What if they found out what you were doing, then showed up at your apartment, arrested you, and had you locked up in a mental hospital?
That's what happened to New York City Police Officer Adrian Schoolcraft in 2009. And that's the story told in Graham A. Rayman's book: The NYPD Tapes: A Shocking Story of Cops, Cover-ups, and Courage.
Schoolcraft started his police career in 2002 and did pretty well until Steven Mauriello took over the 81st Precinct in October 2006. Mauriello used a "...hands-on, numbers- and productivity-focused approach that was favored by ambitious commanders in the era of CompStat." CompStat was the NYPD's computerized system for tracking the crime rate in every precinct, and the "activity" of every police officer, in the city.
Naturally, if Precinct Commanders are judged by CompStat, they are going to do everything possible to keep police "activity" up and crime down – or at least give the appearance this is happening. Schoolcraft's ratings started to suffer as he resisted the pressure to increase "activity" by arresting innocent people and "reduce" crime by falsifying reports.
One technique used to increase "activity" in the 81st Precinct was called a "Mauriello Special" – find people loitering on street corners and arrest them all. Even if no crime had been committed these arrestees would be held for a few hours and then released. This counted for police "activity" in CompStat and would look good on Mauriello's job reviews.
To keep crime down cops were pressured to deliberately falsify reports.Read more ›
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I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It was well-written. If you heard the NPR story, it pretty much sums up the book. Extra details are found in the writing, so if you want a more complete picture, the book will help.
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a must read. so pertinent for our current situation in NYC. The cops are like a mob who consider all non cops as the enemy. again this book is fair, and a MUST READ.
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