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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.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 17 2015, @04:27AM
This guy's got it. If we weren't living in a police state there might be reason to give them the benefit of a doubt, but they've been shitting all over our civil liberties and betraying our trust for at least a decade or 4. They tell us "If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide" and then take actions like this to hide their own actions and rewrite history. The time of giving them a pass is long over.