NYPD apparently editing Wikipedia entries for people they have killed

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A report from Capital New York has traced edits made on the Wikipedia pages of three men killed by New York Police Department officers to computers operating on the department's network at One Police Plaza. Entries about the death of Eric Garner and Amadou Diallo were edited, while a piece on Sean Bell was submitted for deletion. "He [Bell] was in the news for about two months, and now no one except Al Sharpton cares anymore....

...Computers on the NYPD network also edited an entry on its controversial "Stop and Frisk" program as well as deleting sections describing police misconduct, scandals, and corruption from Wikipedia's entry on the NYPD itself. Wikipedia asks editors to avoid conflict of interest, but has little ability to meaningfully trace the source of most changes. The NYPD told Capital New York these edits were "under internal review."

Wikipedia must be taken with a grain of salt.  Hell, there is an entire Twitter account devoted to cataloging edits about Congress made from Congress, lol.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/13/8208385/nypd-wikipeda-edits-eric-garner-sean-bell

This happens constantly on wikipedia... but it's still a good first resource. Follow the references and verify tho. I contribute on occasion on a few topics and it can get frustrating to explain reliable sources and neutral pov to people. Most don't have any awareness of their bias. The point here imo is the corrupt public service that would go to this petty length to cover and protect itself. Bureaucracy and authority is it's own animal.