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In order to figure out the NYPD’s favorite Wikipedia entries, the folks at Capital New York wrote a computer program that searched Wikipedia for anonymous edits originating from computers with IP addresses registered to 1 Police Plaza. Some of their findings are both disturbing and unsurprising — of course someone there has been editing the Eric Garner entry — but some are also just hilarious.
- Death of Eric Garner
- Sean Bell shooting incident
- Sailor Moon
- Criticism of the Catholic Church
- Chumbawamba
- Stye (According to this mature edit, styes are “generally caused by gay man on man butt sex.”)
- Age of consent in Europe
- Stop-and-frisk
- New York City Police Department
- Four Loko
- Batsuit
- Tortoise
- List of changes in Star Wars re-releases
- Sleeveless shirt
- Judge Judy
- Stone Cold Steve Austin
- Master Cleanse
- The Nanny
- Civilian Complaint Review Board
- Playboy
The NYPD told Capital the editing incident is under “internal review,” so look out for future edits to the entry “NYPD Wikipedia Scandal.”
