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DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nPolice officer Adrian Schoolcraft secretly recorded his supervisors 
 telling officers to manipulate crime statistics and make illegal arrests 
 from 2008 to 2009. The Village Voice series that broke Schoolcraft's story 
 was written by Graham Rayman.  Ira Glass narrates the story.\n\n\nPolice 
 Officer Adrian Schoolcraft claims the NYPD cast him as a lunatic because he 
 blew the whistle on supervisors who fudged crime stats and badgered victims 
 trying to report felonies.\n"Police Officer Schoolcraft, who worked in the 
 relatively high-crime 81st precinct in Brooklyn, was not a happy camper. 
 Some might call him a malcontent.\n\nIn 2009, he began to secretly 
 tape-record precinct roll calls at which commanding officers ordered cops 
 like himself to refuse to take robbery victims’ crime complaints. Cops 
 were also ordered to downgrade felonies — which are serious crimes — to 
 less serious misdemeanors so that the precinct would appear safer than it 
 actually was.\n\nSchoolcraft’s secret tape recordings might well have 
 been ignored, had not the police department then done something 
 shocking.\n\nOn Oct. 31, 2009, Schoolcraft left his tour early, saying he 
 felt sick, and returned to his apartment in Queens. A few hours later, a 
 police posse, led by Brooklyn Deputy Chief Michael Marino, entered his 
 apartment and, saying he needed medical help, forcibly brought him to 
 Jamaica Hospital.\n\nDespite his protests, the hospital admitted him and 
 held him for six days. For part of that time, he was kept in its 
 psychiatric ward.\n...\nAfter six days, Schoolcraft was released from the 
 hospital. He and his father then left the city for upstate Johnstown, where 
 Larry Schoolcraft had grown up.\n\nMeanwhile, Larry Schoolcraft alerted the 
 media to what the department had done to his son.\n\nThe Schoolcrafts then 
 hired an attorney, who sued the NYPD in federal court for $50 million, 
 claiming that Adrian’s forced hospitalization was retaliation for his 
 having blown the whistle on his precinct commanders.\n\nAmidst the 
 media’s hue and cry, the department was forced to address Schoolcraft’s 
 allegations about the 81st precinct.\n\nPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly 
 announced an internal investigation, which determined that Schoolcraft’s 
 precinct commanders had indeed downgraded crimes. The precinct’s top 
 commanders were all transferred and disciplined.\n...\nThis was not merely 
 a crime-reporting problem. Misclassifying crimes has consequences. In Upper 
 Manhattan, as Rayman reported for the Village Voice and notes in his book, 
 police downgraded an attempted rape to “criminal trespassing,” a 
 misdemeanor." ~ Leonard Levitt\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more information read "The 
 NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct" by Granham Rayman in The 
 Village Voice.\nSource: This American Life: 414: Right to Remain 
 Silent\n\n\n\n\nNSA Threatens National Security\nBruce Schneier is an 
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 NSA threatens national security by breaking the “trust of the internet” 
 and how to push back against the NSA using technical and legal means.  
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