San Diego Police Caught Sanitizing Brutality Cases On Wikipedia

A San Diego Police Department dispatcher and anonymous Wikipedia users have edited or deleted paragraphs from the misconduct section of the police department’s Wikipedia page five times since January 2014.

One of the Wikipedia users told U-T Watchdog he made the changes because individual cases were wrongly used to smear the whole department, or because of inaccuracies.

The anonymous edits were made through Internet connections owned by the City of San Diego and assigned to the police department, as recently as this January.

The edits, which eliminated references to negative information, came as the police force faced several scandals over officer misconduct — a pattern that resulted in top brass requesting a federal review that was released today.

...[Police dispatcher Daniel] Weiss deleted the entire misconduct section of the department’s Wikipedia page, noting that the entries depicted the actions of individual employees, not the department at large.