New at Reason: Radley Balko on Troubling New Evidence Against the NYPD

May 17, 2010

In recent months, the New York City Police Department had been accused of requiring officers to meet arrest and citation quotas for petty offenses, resulting in a dramatic increase in "stop and frisk" encounters. At the same time, the department has also been accused of pressuring beat cops to under-report or even refrain from reporting actual crimes in order to manipulate the city's crime rate. Now, the Village Voice has obtained more than 100 audio recordings from a NYPD officer offering more confirmation of both policies. Reason Senior Editor Radley Balko looks at the possible ramifications of those recordings.

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