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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.

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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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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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Computers linked to Police Headquarters were used to scrub anti-cop rhetoric on some Wikipedia pages that described cases of alleged police brutality, officials said Friday.

Eighty-five IP addresses that are registered to the NYPDs vast computer network were used to change the information on pages for Eric Garner, Sean Bell and Amadou Diallo, according to Capital New York.

Police Headquarters staffs more than 3,000 employees ranging from top-ranking officials to civilian call-takers, and has more than 15,000 registered IP addresses a dozen of which were linked to notable Wikipedia activity, the Web site reported.

One anonymous user made multiple changes to Garners page on the free-access information site on the same night a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in Garners death.

The phrase Garner raised both his arms in the air was edited to Garner flailed his arms about as he spoke, and the words push Garners face into the sidewalk were changed to push Garners head down into the sidewalk.

Language that Garner was placed in a chokehold was changed two times once to chokehold or headlock and another to respiratory distress.

And added to the description of the July 2014 altercation was the sentence, Garner, who was considerably larger than any of the officers, continued to struggle with them.

A user on the NYPDs network also tried deleting the page for Sean Bell shooting incident altogether in 2007, a year after the man was shot dead by police in Queens.

[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, the user said on Wikipedias Articles for deletion page.

Wikipedia allows anyone to edit its entries either with an account or anonymously. The site logs an anonymous users IP address and creates a public record of the edits.

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