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Sep 10, 2010 · Right to Remain Silent. Stories about people who have the right to remain silent, but choose not to exercise that right—including police officer Adrian Schoolcraft, who secretly recorded his supervisors telling officers to manipulate crime statistics and make illegal arrests. The Village Voice series that broke Schoolcraft's story, written by ...
- Is That a Tape Recorder in Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Unhappy to See Me
For 17 months, New York police officer Adrian Schoolcraft...
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Ira Glass. Adrian Schoolcraft was working in Brooklyn--...
- Is That a Tape Recorder in Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Unhappy to See Me
For 17 months, New York police officer Adrian Schoolcraft recorded himself and his fellow officers on the job, including their supervisors ordering them to do all sorts of things that police aren't supposed to do. For example, downgrading real crimes into lesser ones, so they wouldn't show up in the crime statistics and make their precinct look ...
Ira Glass. Adrian Schoolcraft was working in Brooklyn-- precinct 81, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a rough neighborhood, mostly black, that was slowly gentrifying. The precinct is just seven blocks wide and 20 blocks long, roughly, and had 13 murders last year, which is a third of what it used to be.
Adrian Schoolcraft. Adrian Schoolcraft (born 1976) is a former New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who secretly recorded police conversations from 2008 to 2009. He brought these tapes to NYPD investigators in October 2009 as evidence of corruption and wrongdoing within the department. The tapes were used as evidence of arrest quotas ...
Aug 6, 2013 · “Graham Rayman's a great reporter and Adrian Schoolcraft's story was one of the most gripping things we've ever put on This American Life. The NYPD Tapes tells more of what happened, and reveals the full extent that officials were willing to go in their cover-up.” ― Ira Glass, host of public radio's This American Life
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Mar 14, 2012 · To get the entire sense of Adrian Schoolcraft's saga, check out this stunning episode of This American Life. Ta-Nehisi Coates is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic .
Mar 14, 2012 · March 13, 2012. One night in October 2009, a team of police officers, led by a deputy chief, raided the home of a police officer named Adrian Schoolcraft, and dragged him out of his bed and to the ...
