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Computers on the New York Police Departments network have been used to change the Wikipedia pages of multiple cases of controversial police brutality, according to Capital New York.
Using the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of One Police Plaza NYPDs headquarters location Capital was able to link multiple changes to Wikipedia pages. The addresses were used to determine the location of a computer when it connects to the internet. According to the report, 85 NYPD IP addresses have been used to alter Wikipedia pages pertaining to police leadership, stop-and-frisk, and NYPD scandals, as well as the well-known victims of police altercations including Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo.
Is it acceptable for the NYPD to update Wikipedia pages in which there may be a conflict of interest?
Many of the edits made are subtle, changing the wording and structure of the sentences to portray the events in a different light. For example, after a Staten Island grand jury ruled not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in Eric Garners death, a user on the network reportedly made multiple edits to the Death of Eric Garner Wikipedia page.
One such edit included changing the phrase "Garner raised both his arms in the air" to "Garner flailed his arms about as he spoke." Another edit included changing pushing "Garners face into the sidewalk" to "Garners head down into the sidewalk." Another sentence"Garner, who was considerably larger than any of the officers, continued to struggle with them"was added to the entry.
"The matter is under internal review," an NYPD spokeswoman, Det. Cheryl Crispin, wrote in an email to Capital.
Anyone can make edits to a Wikipedia, either anonymously or with a username. In order to track anonymous edits, Wikipedia assigns them a profile based on their IP addresses, enabling users to track all edits made by the One Police Plaza network.
After Capital New York broke the story, the Twitter handle @NYPDedits was created to keep track of all future edits made on the network. Thus far, the profile has over 770 followers but has yet to tweet. Others have taken to Twitter to express their frustration.
While Wikipedia enables anyone to edit and contribute to pages, they strongly discourage editing pages in which there may be a conflict of interest, which they define as an incompatibility between the aim of Wikipedia, which is to produce a neutral, reliably sourced encyclopedia, and the aims of an individual editor.
COI editing is strongly discouraged. It risks causing public embarrassment to the individuals and groups being promoted, and if it causes disruption to the encyclopedia, accounts may be blocked, Wikipedias page states.
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It seems unholy to open a story focused on a day about numbers with a play on words. And a lazy one at that. But Fox 5 begins its coverage of Pi Day 2015 at Little Pie Company on the West Side where bakers wrapped hundreds of sour cream walnut apple pies on the eve of a day dedicated to the mathematical constant variety.
It seems unholy to open a story focused on a day about numbers with a play on words. And a lazy one at that. But Fox 5 begins its coverage of Pi Day 2015 at Little Pie Company on the West Side where bakers wrapped hundreds of sour cream walnut apple pies on the eve of a day dedicated to the mathematical constant variety.
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TIME U.S. justice Eric Garner Wikipedia Article Edited From Inside NYPD HQ Including the use of the word "chokehold"
Key details in a Wikipedia article about the police killing of Eric Garner last August, including the use of the word chokehold, were changed on computers inside the New York Police Department headquarters in Manhattan.
The Wikipedia account of the confrontation between police officers and Garner, an unarmed black man who was suspected of selling loose cigarettes, was changed in several instances, including two cases in which chokehold was replaced once with chokehold or headlock, and once with respiratory distress, Capital New York reports.
The changes were made from IP addresses that were registered to the NYPD headquarters network.
The matter is under internal review, an NYPD spokeswoman, Det. Cheryl Crispin, wrote in an email to Capital.
Eric Garners Wikipedia page also contained a line that was changed from Garner raised both his arms in the air to Garner flailed his arms about as he spoke.
Other Wikipedia pages that detail instances of alleged police brutality were also changed from the same IP addresses. A user on 1 Police Plazas network tried in 2007 to delete the entry about Sean Bell, an unarmed black man who was killed by undercover NYPD officers in November 2006.
Changes were also made to the page about Amadou Diallo, who was killed when police mistook his wallet for a gun in 1999. And articles about stop-and-frisk, the age of consent in Europe and even the British Band Chumbawamba were also edited.
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