{"id":7054,"date":"2012-03-07T18:39:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T23:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7054"},"modified":"2012-03-07T22:21:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T03:21:14","slug":"this_culture_has_got_to_change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/this_culture_has_got_to_change.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This Culture Has Got To Change&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The issues raised in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/05\/if_it_werent_for_comstat_you_wouldnt_think_crime_was_down_and_if_you_dont_think_crime_is_down_then_you_dont_know_any_better_anyway_--_until_you_get_mugged_but_then_youll_probably_just_assume_it_was_an.html\">the <em>Voice<\/em> series that showed the NYPD was cooking the books<\/a> actually were investigated by the NYPD, except <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2012-03-07\/news\/the-nypd-tapes-confirmed\/\">the findings were kept secret<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The implications of the report are obvious: If the 81st Precinct was a typical station house, then crime manipulation is more widespread than city officials have admitted.<\/p>\n<p>John Eterno, a criminologist at Molloy College and a former NYPD captain, says that what was happening in the 81st Precinct is no isolated case. &#8220;The pressures on commanders are enormous, to make sure the crime numbers look good,&#8221; Eterno says. &#8220;This is a culture. This is happening in every precinct, every transit district, and every police housing service area. This culture has got to change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for [the 81st Precinct Commander], he&#8217;s no rogue commander, says Eterno, who has published a book about crime reporting with John Jay College professor Eli Silverman. &#8220;[The commander] is no different from any other commander,&#8221; he says. &#8220;This is just a microcosm of what is happening in the entire police department.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issues raised in the Voice series that showed the NYPD was cooking the books actually were investigated by the NYPD, except the findings were kept secret: The implications of the report are obvious: If the 81st Precinct was a typical station house, then crime manipulation is more widespread than city officials have admitted. John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7056,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7054\/revisions\/7056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}