The NYPD Tapes Part 4

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LAst HALLoween, three weeks after hemade allegations of misconduct in Brook-lyn’s 81st Precinct,

Adrian Schoolcraft’scareer in the New YorkCity Police Departmentended in ratherspectacular fashion.On October 7, Schoolcraft had sat forthree hours with an inspector, a lieuten-ant, and three sergeants with the Quality Assistance Divisionthe NYPD unitthat monitors the accuracy of police re-

portsas they questioned him about hisallegations that precinct bosses had re-fused to take criminal complaints and haddowngraded crimes. They told him they would launch a substantial investigation.

After the meeting, Schoolcraft wentabout his normal work as a member of the 81st Precinct. Then, on the afternoonof October 31, he felt sick and went homeabout an hour early. Precinct supervi-sors appeared at his door hours later,claiming he had violated policy anddemanding that he return to work.

One of his visitors was a deputy chief,who upbraided him while sitting on theedge of his bed. On orders from that deputy chief, Schoolcraft was then thrown to thefloor, handcuffed, dragged from his Queensapartment, and taken against his will to apsychiatric ward at Jamaica Hospital. Hisforced hospitalization lasted six days. Policeofficers also removed papers from his homethat documented his concerns about NYPDoperations. Jamaica Hospital officialscharged him $7,000 for his stayand an-

other $86 to obtain his own medical records.Schoolcraft has been introduced toVoice

readers as the Bed-Stuy cop who secretly taped 117 roll calls at the precinct, as well asmany other conversations with his fellowcops. In our series, “The NYPD Tapes,” theVoicehas been making these recordingspublic, and they show a pattern of policedowngrading crimes, intimidating crimevictims, and enforcing quotas for writing tickets and performing “stop-and-frisks.”

Schoolcraft also had his digital re-

corder rolling as his superior officersthrew him to the ground and hauled himoff to the mental ward. Those recordingsreveal that he was rational throughoutthe encounter, and refused medical as-sistance that was then forced on him.

In addition, hospital recordsshow that the medical staff was mis-led by an NYPD sergeant about theevents of that day, causing doctors totreat him as a psychiatric patient.

Like the previous recordings theVoice has made public, these tapes suggest

that Adrian Schoolcraft is an ordinary cop who got caught on the wrong side of department politics, tried to report cor-ruption, and paid for it with his career.

Despite repeatedly reporting whathe saw as misconduct to a duty

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