The NYPD is at an all-time low with their efforts to look good. As if there were not witnesses, as if we don’t know the truth, as if the right researcher does or will not know that Wikipedia is not a 100% credible resource.

The Big Apple’s force was traced by Wiki, showing that 85 IP addresses within New York City’s 1 Police Plaza were behind the edits made to Sean Bell, Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo and more pages.

Pretty much anyone can make changes to these pages, however when you make those changes anonymously, the IP address is logged into a publicly accessible database of users’ edits. That’s what happened here. Tsk Tsk.

Check out some of the NYPD edits after the jump.

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Eric Garner:

– The word “chokehold” was twice replaced. Once to “chokehold or headlock,” and once to “respiratory distress.”

– The phrase “Use of the chokehold has been prohibited” was edited to read “Use of the chokehold is legal, but has been prohibited.”

– The description “push Garner’s face into the sidewalk” was altered to say “push Garner’s head down into the sidewalk.”

Sean Bell:

– The sentence “one Latino and two African-American men were shot a total of fifty times” to “one Latino and two African-American men were shot at a total of fifty times”

– In attempts to altogether delete the entry “Sean Bell shooting incident” the user wrote on Wiki’s “Articles for deletion” page the following: “He [Bell] was in the news for about two months, and now no one except Al Sharpton cares anymore. The police shoot people every day, and times with a lot more than 50 bullets. This incident is more news than notable.”

On NYPD’s ‘Stop & Frisk’ policy:

– “The stop-and-frisk program of New York City is a practice of the New York City Police Department to stop, question and, if the circumstances of the stop warrant it, conduct a frisk of the person stopped.” was changed to “The stop-and-frisk program of New York City is a practice of the New York City Police Department by which a police officer who reasonably suspects a person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a felony or a Penal Law misdemeanor, stops and questions that person, and, if the circumstances of the stop warrant it, conducts a frisk of the person stopped.”

– “if the circumstances of the stop warrant it, conducts a frisk of the person stopped” was changed to “if the officer reasonably suspects he or she is in danger of physical injury, frisks the person stopped for weapons.”

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