The NYPD Tapes: The Village Voice's Series on Adrian Schoolcraft by Graham Rayman
In 2010, Village Voice reporter Graham Rayman obtained digital audio recordings from Police Officer Adrian Schoolcraft, an eight-year veteran of the NYPD. These tapes revealed the inner-workings of Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct, a place where bosses threatened street cops if they didn't make their quotas of arrests and stop-and-frisks and told them not to take certain robbery reports in order to manipulate crime statistics.
Astoundingly, these tapes were just the beginning.
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The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st PrecinctInvestigationsGraham Rayman's first story on Adrian Schoolcraft and his recordings of the NYPD's 81st precinct.By: Graham Rayman -Published: May 05, 2010
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The NYPD Tapes, Part 2: Ghost TownInvestigationsGraham Rayman's second installment, in which the Bed-Stuy street cops are ordered to turn the neighborhood into a "ghost town."By: Graham Rayman -Published: May 11, 2010
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NYPD Tapes, Part 3: A Detective Comes Forward About Downgraded Sexual AssaultsInvestigationsPart 3 of the Voice's series examines how a series of sexual assault-robberies in Washington Heights were downgraded to misdemeanors, allowing a sexual predator to remain at large for two months.By: Graham Rayman -Published: June 08, 2010
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NYPD Tapes, Part 4: The WhistleBlower, Adrian SchoolcraftInvestigationsSchoolcraft wanted his bosses to know about NYPD misconduct. So in turn, they put him in a mental ward.By: Graham Rayman -Published: June 15, 2010
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NYPD Tapes, Part 5: The CorroborationInvestigationsAt the same time NYPD whistleblower Adrian Schoolcraft was secretly recording his supervisors in a Brooklyn precinct, an officer named Adil Polanco was doing the same thing a borough away in the Bronx.By: Graham Rayman -Published: August 25, 2010
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The NYPD Tapes ConfirmedInvestigationsThe report police hid for nearly two years that corroborates our investigation and vindicates Adrian Schoolcraft, the whistleblower the NYPD tried to destroy.By: Graham Rayman -Published: March 07, 2012
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"Right to Remain Silent": The NYPD Tapes on NPR's This American LifeRadioGraham Rayman and Adrian Schoolcraft on This American Life, discussing The NYPD Tapes. (From September 10, 2010)By: NPR -Published: September 10, 2010
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