Adrian Schoolcraft | |
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| Born | 1976 (age 48–49) |
| Police career | |
| Department | New York City Police Department |
| Service years | 2002–2015 |
| Rank | Police Officer |
| Badge no. | 12943 |
| Awards | Meritorious Police Duty Medal |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |  United States of America |
| Service |  United States Navy |
| Years of service | 1993–1997 |
| Unit | USS Blue Ridge |
| Awards | National Defense Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal |
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Adrian Schoolcraft (born 1976) is a former New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who secretly recorded police conversations from 2008 to 2009. He brought these tapes to NYPD investigators in October 2009 as evidence of corruption and wrongdoing within the department. The tapes were used as evidence of arrest quotas leading to police abuses such as wrongful arrests, and that emphasis on fighting crime sometimes resulted in under-reporting of crimes to artificially deflate CompStat numbers.
After voicing his concerns, Schoolcraft was repeatedly harassed by members of the NYPD and reassigned to a desk job. After he left work early one day, an ESU unit illegally entered his apartment, physically abducted him and forcibly admitted him to a psychiatric facility, where he was held against his will for six days.[1] In 2010, he released the audio recordings to The Village Voice, leading to the reporting of a multi-part series titled The NYPD Tapes. The same year, Schoolcraft filed a lawsuit against Jamaica Hospital and the NYPD. In 2012 The Village Voice reported that a 2010 unpublished report of an internal NYPD investigation found that the 81st precinct had evidence of quotas and underreporting. Both of Schoolcraft's claims were settled in 2015, with him receiving $600,000 for the NYPD portion of the lawsuit.