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NYPD Caught Red-Handed Sanitizing Police Brutality Wikipedia Entries

posted by n1 on Monday March 16 2015, @08:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the truth-hurts dept.

AnonTechie writes:

IP addresses linked to the New York Police Department's computer network have been used to sanitize Wikipedia entries about cases of police brutality.

This wouldn't be the first time we've seen nefarious alterations to Wikipedia entries, and it won't be the last. But the disclosure of NYPD's entries by Capital New York come as the Justice Department announced a national initiative for "building community trust and justice" with the nation's policing agencies.

As many as 85 IP addresses connected to 1 Police Plaza altered entries for some of the most high-profile police abuse cases, including those for victims Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo, Capital New York said. Edits have also been made to other entries covering NYPD scandals, its stop-and-frisk program, and the department leadership.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/nypd-caught-red-handed-sanitizing-police-brutality-wikipedia-entries/

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @11:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @11:05PM (#158624)

    Are they really that stupid to use their corporate network to do these things on the internet?

    Don't know they know that everything is tracked and can be traced back to the source?

    Don't do they request IPs and the citizens behind those IPs during an investigation?

    Sometimes these stories of officials editing stories does not pass the smell test.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 17 2015, @12:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 17 2015, @12:17AM (#158654)

    Sometimes these stories of officials editing stories does not pass the smell test.

    Maybe they hire many incompetent people.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday March 17 2015, @01:52AM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Tuesday March 17 2015, @01:52AM (#158691)

    The specialist investigators who have some vague clue about what an IP address is are not the same people who are editing Wikipedia. I'm sure NYPD employ PR drones, and they will just as awful as any other PR drone anywhere.