NYPD Edited Police Brutality Wikipedia Entries
IP addresses linked to the NYPD found to have altered Wikipedia pages about Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo and Sean Bell"
Computers traced back to the New York Police Department's Internet Protocol (IP) addresses have been aggressively editing the details on the Wikipedia entries of many of the city's most high profile instances of police brutality, and oddly some music-related entries as well. Capital New York reports efforts to make edits and even delete the Wikipedia entries on Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo and Eric Garner stemmed from 85 NYPD IP addresses originating from One Police Plaza headquarters computer system."
The matter is under internal review," NYPD spokeswoman Det. Cheryl Crispin wrote in an e-mail to Capital. Other instances of NYPD-traced modifications occurred on the entry about "stop-and-frisk," another page summarizing incidents of police brutality involving the NYPD and a number of entries concerning New York-based politicians. "
Capital New York also points out exact instances Wikipedia users operating with the NYPD IP addresses changed entries to subtly downplay certain incidents. In the case of the "Death of Eric Garner" entry, "Use of the chokehold has been prohibited" was changed to "Use of the chokehold is legal, but has been prohibited," and the original description "Garner raised both his arms in the air" was altered to read "Garner flailed his arms about as he spoke." While most of the edits were removed by Wikipedia editors, three of the changes made by the One Police Plaza user remain on the Garner entry."
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Wikipedia does have conflict-of-interest rules.
In an ironic twist, it may be that these edits, though not illegal, are prohibited. 
