As often as three times a week, Rose and Walter Martin are greeted at their front door by cops brandishing guns.  Far from criminal masterminds, the innocent 80-something couple are upstanding citizens who are the victims of a mistake in the NYPD’s computer system.  Apparently when the department put in a new system in 2002, they entered the Martin’s Brooklyn address as the default address for warrants.  Since then, their house number appears in warrants for rapists, murderers, and drug kingpins, all because of some bad lines of code.

Rose is rightfully skeptical.  “It seems like too simple a correction for something that has been going on for eight years,” she said to reporters.  Apparently, this has been a problem for longer than the police will admit to.  The home’s previous owner said he, too, was the victim of police screw-ups, with cops coming to his door at least 30 times between 1994 and 1997.  I somehow doubt Rose’s problems are over.

Here’s a pro tip for any police who might read this.  If you want to test out your new system, use a fake address.  I recommend sending your test warrants out for Oscar T. Grouch, 123 Sesame Street, Fakeville, PBS.  I heard that guy’s been peddling porn to kids, anyway.

Tags: Rose Martin, Walter Martin, NYPD, police raid the wrong house 50 times, Brooklyn, New York, computer glitch, dumb cops, law enforcement failure

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