His description of being taken in handcuffs to a psychiatric ward that night suggests the nation's largest police force could have a vindictive underbelly. He claims that cops risk retribution when they try, as he did, to blow the whistle on supervisors' faking of crime statistics to make the stats look better. [More]Now that can't be true--as I understand it, it's always only "a few bad apples." Especially in Furious Mike Paradise.
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So CompStat -- the "precrime" program in NYC -- isn't the solution, except to drive quota-driven policing. If in doubt, prone them out.
ReplyDeleteSchoolcraft is a brave man the likes of which we need many more of.
If the terrorist win, how will be be able to tell?
It's enlightening to read the comments by the police officers at the site. Seems many have a different definition of the term "corruption."
ReplyDeleteThe verbal attacks by other cops on a former "fellow officer" who recorded police station conversations - labeling him as paranoid, reading other facts into the story that aren't published, etc, illustrates why normal folks should fear the "blue wall of silence."
I thought the truth would be considered the friend of law enforcement personnel.
OK - I made up the last statement.