(picture courtesy of Chad Griffith)Fearing that the community wasn't being served appropriately by his precinct,
8-year veteran police officer Adrian Schoolcraft took a voice recorder to work for over a year.
His multitude of recordings included 117 rollcalls.
Shockingly in an unrelated event Bronx police officer Adil Polanco was similarly recording his precinct.
What both collections had in common were a topic long rumored to have existed: Quotas
One such recording documented Captain Alex Perez threatening to fire officers if they didn't start writing more tickets.
Specifically he noted that each shift should write 20 summonses a week, 5 each for:
-double parking
-parking at a bus stop
-driving without a seat belt
&
-driving while using a cellphone
A slew of incriminating testimonies lie within the audio including:
-fake summonses
-refusal to take complaints
-crime scene tampering
-quotas for frisks
Many argue this is the result of Compstat,
a program used by the NYPD to tally weekly summons to comprise yearly totals.
His multitude of recordings included 117 rollcalls.
Shockingly in an unrelated event Bronx police officer Adil Polanco was similarly recording his precinct.
What both collections had in common were a topic long rumored to have existed: Quotas
One such recording documented Captain Alex Perez threatening to fire officers if they didn't start writing more tickets.
Specifically he noted that each shift should write 20 summonses a week, 5 each for:
-double parking
-parking at a bus stop
-driving without a seat belt
&
-driving while using a cellphone
A slew of incriminating testimonies lie within the audio including:
-fake summonses
-refusal to take complaints
-crime scene tampering
-quotas for frisks
Many argue this is the result of Compstat,
a program used by the NYPD to tally weekly summons to comprise yearly totals.
