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NYPD Threw Truth-Telling Cop in Psycho Ward for Six Days, and Tried to Talk Victims Out of Reporting Crimes for Better Stats

Thursday, August 15, 2013 13:51
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'In 2008, Steven Mauriello, commander of the 81st precinct in Brooklyn, New York, ordered his officers to be far more aggressive – to arrest anyone doing anything even slightly out of line.

“Everybody goes,” he said. “I don't care. Yoke 'em. Put 'em through the system. They got bandannas on? Arrest 'em. They're underage? Fuck it. You're on a foot post? Fuck it. Take the first guy you got and lock 'em all up. Bring 'em in.” A lieutenant later added, “they don't own the block. We own the block. They might live there, but we own the block. We own the streets here.”

Those orders represent a taste of over 1,000 hours of day-to-day life in the NYPD secretly recorded by Adrian Schoolcraft, an unassuming patrolman who became disgusted with the unrelenting pressure he faced to “make his numbers,” regardless of whether he actually witnessed any wrongdoing.'

Read more: NYPD Threw Truth-Telling Cop in Psycho Ward for Six Days, and Tried to Talk Victims Out of Reporting Crimes for Better Stats

 



Source: http://msnoworldorder.co.uk/newsblog/3080-nypd-threw-truth-telling-cop-in-psycho-ward-for-six-days-and-tried-to-talk-victims-out-of-reporting-crimes-for-better-stats

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