NEW YORK CRIME STATS ARE CONCOCTIONS
Hal Pepinsky, pepinsky@indiana.edu, pepinsky.blogspot.com
October 22, 2011
Today on “This American Life,” most of the program was about how from roll call to the very top of the NYPD, since its inception in 1994, the much touted crime reporting system known as COMPSTAT is bogus. The TAL segment is essentially an interview with former officer Adrian Schoolcraft and playing of clips of the recordings he made from when he was first ordered at roll call to make numbers on summonses to how senior commanders have him taken away to a psychiatric ward. It’s quite a drama.
I googled Adrian Schoolcraft and found this NYT story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/nyregion/10quotas.html?pagewanted=all