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.
It's amazing that, out of 50,000 people, one was interested in editing [insert random public figure]'s wiki page, and that this held for a variety of different public figures? You evidently have a different standard for amazement than I do.
