New York City Subpoenas Secret Tapes by Police Officer
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr
New York City lawyers have subpoenaed documents and tape recordings used by a journalist who wrote a book about a New York City police officer who disclosed the manipulation of crime reports at his Brooklyn precinct.
The broadly worded, five-page subpoena demands that the writer, Graham A. Rayman, turn over hundreds of tape recordings that the officer, Adrian Schoolcraft, made of his superiors at the 81st Precinct, as well as reams of notes, correspondence and emails.
“I have no intention of cooperating,” Mr. Rayman said. “I think it would be malpractice for a journalist to cooperate with a subpoena like this and would have a chilling effect on what all journalists do.”
Officer Schoolcraft has sued the city, claiming his civil rights were violated in October 2009 when his bosses ordered him arrested and taken to a psychiatric ward at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was detained for six days. He says his superiors orchestrated the hospitalization as a punishment for reporting their misconduct.
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