The Village Voice is releasing some shocking recordings made inside a Brooklyn police precinct.
The newspaper has obtained hundreds of hours of recordings from a police officer, who secretly taped his colleagues and superiors in Bedford-Stuyvesant’s 81st Precinct between June 2008 and October 2009.
The Voice says the tapes show precinct bosses pressuring officers to make their monthly quotas of arrests and stop-and-frisks, and urging them to record fewer actual crimes in order to manipulate crime stats.
In a roll call recorded September 26th, a sergeant notes an upcoming deadline for applying to take the sergeants’ exam and goes on to press for more numbers.
“If your activity’s been down, the last quarter is a good time to bring it up, because that’s when your evaluation is going to be done and we all know this job is, ‘What have you done for me lately?’” says the sergeant on the September 29th 2009 recording.
“This is crunch time,” he says several days earlier. “This is Game Seven of the World Series, the bases are loaded, and you’re at bat right now… It’s all a game, ladies and gentlemen. We do what we’re supposed to; the negative attention goes somewhere else. That’s what we want.”
The Voice is releasing portions of the tapes on its website.
(Source: NY1)
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8 Responses
This is a bit like the Holyland bribery scandal in Eretz Yisroel. No one is surprised.
This kind of quota was publicized once before. We now need recordings of parking ticket quotas.
Now we know the rest of the story.
Do you all feel safer now?
I’s sure this was all taken out of context. It was probably just said in a huddle for one of the Police Athletic League playoff games. There’s a reason we refer to them as New York’s Finest.
Seems a little odd,to make more arrests together with lowering crime stats
Nah do you mean that our “LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS”(AND PERHAPS OUR CONGRESS PEOPLE) are corrupt. i never would have guessed. maybe if we name them rubashkin, they will get a fraction of what they deserve. and maybe if we change rubashkins name to hussein he will get off a little easier.
To #6;
Simple, lower crime higher arrests increase the crime solved ratio.