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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: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday March 17 2015, @05:06PM
" re-educated by NYC public schools."
Ah ahahahahahahaha, snifff ... oh man. Educated and NYC public schools in the same sentence is a real kicker.
Ever been to one? They mainly serve as a publicly funded babysitting service and union pension money sink. The only public schools worth a damn are the ones geared toward vocational, sciences and technology. And many of them have suffered over the years from brain drain as the good teachers retired. Some have also suffered from selfish megalomaniac principals who sabotaged technical programs to make way for their own pet projects that never materialize. A great example is Lee D. McCaskill who my brother's teachers blamed for ruining the electronics major at Brooklyn Tech to the point where it was useless.
The mayors get to hand pick cronies to run the school systems with the promise of improvement but it just turns into a well paid ride for the cronies like Joel Klein, Bloombergs lawyer pal who had barely any teaching experience.