Last fall, the NYPD — which has about 35,000 officers — installed new computer system that tracks tickets and makes it much more difficult to tamper with the paper trail. And since cops with a high IQ can be excluded from the force no one was able to push the right buttons on the computer to cover their tracks, so they got caught.
Additionally Commissioner Raymond Kelly recently formed a new unit within internal affairs to look into ticket fixing. Its officers sit in on traffic court testimony and comb through paperwork to ensure none of the methods is being wrongly employed.
The last serious corruption to actually be brought to light at NYPD was the so-called “Dirty 30” case from the early 1990s. More than 33 officers from Harlem’s 30th Precinct were implicated in the probe, with most pleading guilty to charges including stealing cash from drug dealers, taking bribes, beating suspects and lying under oath to cover their tracks. If anyone beleves that the entire force of 35k officers has been clean for the last 20 years I have some land off the coast of FLA to sell them….
Unlike when you or I get persecuted by the bullies in blue “the people” declined to detail the charges or name the officers. The Bronx district attorney’s office declined to comment Thursday, as did Paul Browne, chief spokesman for the New York Police Department, and union officials about this obvious ass covering favor granting practice.
The charges are against 13 police officers, two sergeants and one lieutenant are the latest in a spate of corruption allegations against NYPD officers. They include delegates with the department’s largest and most powerful union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association.
Can anyone say slap on the wrist?
On top of this earlier this week, federal prosecutors in Manhattan brought conspiracy and other charges against five current and three former officers alleging they were part of a gun-running ring. Adn we try to portray the Afgan cops as buffons when theyy do the same thing…
In other recent federal cases, one officer was charged with arresting a black man without cause and using a racial slur to describe the suspect.
And woe and behold some cop does know how to use the computer and was caught using a law enforcement database to try to trump up charges against an innocent man.
As the ticket-fixing investigation unfolded, union officials complained that the probe unfairly singled out officers for an unofficial practice — undoing paperwork on traffic citations before they reach court — that has been tolerated for years.
Can you beleve this! It is like the pope saying “Oh well we have been fucking the little kids for centuries so what’s the problem?”
He officer I speed every day so what is the problem with today? Hey It’s a unofficial practice of the public!
But according to atrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association:
“This issue could have and should have been addressed differently”
The case evolved from a 2009 internal affairs probe of a Bronx officer suspected of associating with a drug dealer, officials said. While listening to the officer’s phone, investigators heard calls from people seeing if he could fix tickets for them, they said.
That led to more wiretaps that produced evidence of additional officers having similar conversations. An unrelated drunken driving case in the Bronx provided a window into the secret probe when prosecutors were forced to disclose to the defense that the arresting officer was among those recorded talking about ticket fixing.
According to a transcript of the tape, a union delegate tells an officer, “I’ll get this taken care of” by having a ticket issued to a girlfriend of the officer’s cousin pulled the next day.
Aside from those officers charged criminally, dozens more could face internal charges. In one disciplinary case already decided earlier this year, a former Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association financial secretary in the Bronx admitted administrative misconduct charges and was docked 40 days of vacation and suspended for five days.
Oh you can bet these cops are going to be pouting and whining and trumping up fake charges even more on the sheeple in the public.