A supervisor in a Brooklyn precinct was caught on tape vowing to go after officers with "ruthless aggression" if they didn't make at least one arrest a month.
But the most startling of the hundreds of hours of secret recordings was a tape showing just how aggressive the bosses could get. One reveals a showdown between a cop who accused supervisors of cooking crime stats and one of the top cops in Brooklyn.
"They're going to treat you as an EDP (emotionally disturbed person)," Deputy Chief Michael Marino warned as he and other cops came to Officer Adrian Schoolcraft's home in Queens. "That means handcuffs. I don't want to see that happen to a cop."
Schoolcraft said police pounded on his door and screamed his name last Halloween after he accused cops in the 81st Precinct of fudging crime stats.
"He's EDP!" Marino says on the tapes. "In cuffs!"
Cops had been trying to get into his Glendale home for more than an hour.
"You didn't hear us knocking on that door?" Marino asked.
Schoolcraft said he was groggy from medication.
"I don't know, Adrian, but if you hear somebody knocking, normally you get up and answer it," Marino said. "They were kicking on that door loud and yelling."
Schoolcraft has sued the NYPD for $50 million for forcing him into a psych ward in retaliation for diming out supervisors.
The NYPD has adamantly denied having quotas. It has said cops are expected to meet productivity goals. Sources said one arrest a month is not unreasonable in busy precincts, such as the 81st, but that patrol cops will often spend entire shifts rushing from one 911 emergency to another without making an arrest.
State law also prohibits police from using quotas - defined as a set number of arrests or summonses in a specific time frame.
In a May 27, 2009, recording, a supervisor is heard pressuring cops about arrests.
"I'm going to make sure you have an arrest a month and I'm going to do it with ruthless aggression," he said. "You know me well enough now. You know how I work."
Schoolcraft, an 8-year-veteran, remains suspended without pay. The NYPD said he left work early last Halloween, without permission. Schoolcraft insisted he had permission.
When police woke him up, Schoolcraft seemed stunned.
"What is this, Russia?" Schoolcraft is heard saying.
this is just crazy i did not they just arrest to make money i think this is insane
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