A request by the New York City Police Department asking people to share and post images of themselves and NYPD officers on Twitter has majorly backfired, Fox News reported.

Instead of sharing pictures of Twitter users posing with police officers as requested, the NYPD has been bombarded with a deluge of pictures portraying alleged police brutality

On Tuesday, the NYPD sent a tweet claiming that it might feature the photographs on its Facebook page.

"Do you have a photo w/ a member of the NYPD? Tweet us & tag it #myNYPD. It may be featured on our Facebook," the department posted on its NYPD News Twitter feed, hoping to fuel a feel-good, low-cost public relations campaign.

But the results were anything but the expected response. Occupy Wall Street initiated a barrage of ugly responses by tweeting a picture of cops battling protestors with the caption "changing hearts and minds one baton at a time."

"Images and tweets of many arrests of demonstrators went viral, including such presumed lowlights as an officer pulling the hair of a handcuffed young black woman and another of the bloodied face of an 84-year-old stopped for jaywalking," Agence France-Presse reported.

One of the biggest criticisms focused on the unpopular "stop and frisk" policy, which targets minority youth.

However, NYPD did end up receiving police-friendly photographs from some respondents.

NYPD spokeswoman Kim Royster told The New York Times the department was "creating new ways to communicate effectively with the community" and that Twitter provided "an open forum for an uncensored exchange" that is "good for our city."

The unfortunate incident will not deter the department from carrying out future social media outreach efforts, another spokesman, Stephen Davis, told the New York Post.

"People are free to do what they want," Davis said. "But we are doing it to get our messages out to the communities . . . We will not be deterred from our social media objective."

A law enforcement source told The Post that the department hadn't thought it through, Fox News reported.

"Good intentions by the NYPD, but . . . who uses Twitter?" the source said. "The younger generation who have had bad interactions with the Police Department."