NYPD caught editing Wiki pages of cop victims

[NewYorkExpress]

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2015/03/8563947/edits-wikipedia-pages-bell-garner-diallo-traced-1-police-plaza

The NYPD's computer system has been caught editing Wikipedia pages relating to major incidents involving police, such as the Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo and Eric Garner altercations, as well as NYPD scandals, and prominent political and police leadership in the City.

Amazingly, Police Issues were not the only things the NYPD tried to whitewash on Wikipedia, with additional edits ranging from the History of Zimbabwe, to former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, to Singer Barry Manilow.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mcnQZaZCYSYYG0-_uU4i1Fczvj7gn_GkiPjxcdnneRU/preview?sle=true
The Directly above is a log of all edits made by the NYPD computer system.

[NewYorkExpress]

People accessing the internet at work? Horrors!

In case I wasn't clear, these edits were the work of individual NYPD employees fooling around on their work computers, not an organized Department-wide propaganda program.

There were 85 NYPD IP addresses linked to Wikipedia edits. As the article notes, only a relatively small number of edits about police incidents were made. So realistically we're talking about how many cops making these re-writes? 2-3? Maybe half a dozen? We're almost surely at least within single digits.

That's out of a total force of 50,000, who are now apparently all "scum". Nothing like painting an entire community for the misdeeds of a view. Odd that the same posters who so assiduously argue that point in other contexts see no problem ignoring the precept when it comes to cops.

     Yeah, I was thinking the same thing; that it is probably the work of individual employees. For the "amazingly" in the OP to work, you have to just skip that and immediately think "massive conspiracy".

The amazingly was intended as an expression of the scale of the topics edited, not the number of people doing the editing.