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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. He used the tapes as evidence that arrest quotas were leading to police abuses such as wrongful arrests, while the emphasis on fighting crime sometimes resulted in underreporting of crimes to keep the numbers down. After voicing his concerns, Schoolcraft was reportedly harassed 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.〔 In 2010, he released the audio recordings to ''The Village Voice'', leading to the reporting of a multi-part series titled ''The NYPD Tapes.'' That same year he filed a lawsuit against the NYPD and Jamaica Hospital. In 2012 ''The Village Voice'' reported that a 2010 unpublished report of an internal NYPD investigation found the 81st precinct had evidence of quotas and underreporting. ==Biography== Adrian Schoolcraft was born in Killeen, Texas, in 1976. His father was a police officer. Schoolcraft joined the United States Navy at age 17 and served for four years (1993–1997) on the ''USS Blue Ridge'' near Japan.〔〔 He was awarded the National Defense Service Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, and other decorations while on active duty.〔Gary Toms, "(Decorated Ex-Cop Files Landmark Lawsuit Against NYPD: Abuse of Power, Corruption and Fourth Amendment Violations Cited )", ''Yahoo Voices'' 14 October 2010.〕 He was honorably discharged in 1997 and returned to Texas to work for Motorola.〔 In 2002 he moved to New York City, wishing to be closer to his parents (who had moved to New York state), particularly because his mother had been diagnosed with cancer. Driven both by his mother's desire that he become an officer, and by a wish to respond to the September 11 attacks on New York City, he applied to join the NYPD. He passed the entrance exam and joined the force two weeks later.〔〔 Schoolcraft drove his mother to chemotherapy appointments in Albany until she died in 2003.〔 Soon after joining the force, Schoolcraft was deployed to Precinct 75 in Brooklyn to join Operation Impact.〔 After 14 months in the NYPD, he was transferred to Precinct 81 in Bedford–Stuyvesant.〔 After a few years on the force, he began to raise issues about understaffing and overtime, saying that the precinct had too few officers to do a good job.〔 He received the Meritorious Police Duty Medal in 2006, and in 2008 was cited for his "dedication to the New York City Police Department and to the City of New York".〔Colleen Long and Tom Hays, "(Cop who made tapes accuses NYPD of false arrest: Adrian Schoolcraft made hundreds of hours of secret tapes while on duty )", ''Associated Press'', Police.com, 9 October 2010.〕〔 Brooklynites who lived in the area patrolled by Schoolcraft reported that he was the only officer they knew, because he was the only one interested in conversing with them.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adrian Schoolcraft」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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