16 NY police officers charged for fixing of tickets for colleagues

[Paul98]

Cops are just government sponsored criminals.

 

[Wordplay]

if they charged 16, that probably means that 200 were actually involved and got away with it.

I wouldn't be surprised if many more got away with it. Some fall to make it look like they are cleaning up while others continue to do what they want to do.

 

[DrPizza]

Meh, theyll just be put on "administrative leave" with pay while an investigation takes years to finish thatll end up acquitting them because the other cops that were in on the scheme but not caught will do the investigation.

Couldn't be bothered to read? “The following uniformed members of the service are hereby suspended from duty without pay pending trial of charges pursuant to the administrative code.”

 

[Slew Foot]

Couldn't be bothered to read? “The following uniformed members of the service are hereby suspended from duty without pay pending trial of charges pursuant to the administrative code.”

And when their buddies acquit them, theyll get all their back pay plus interest, plus pain and suffering and hardship bonuses.

 

[mammador]

It depends. Why shouldn't these officers be allowed to adhere to their own morals?

 

[BabaBooey]

If you could only see the look of utter shock on my face right now......

 

[LTC8K6]

It's way more than just the 16, it seems...also the 16 seem to have quite a bit of support from the blue line...

As 16 police officers were arraigned at State Supreme Court in the Bronx, incensed colleagues organized by their union cursed and taunted prosecutors and investigators, chanting “Down with the D.A.” and “Ray Kelly, hypocrite.”

As the defendants emerged from their morning court appearance, a swarm of officers formed a cordon in the hallway and clapped as they picked their way to the elevators. Members of the news media were prevented by court officers from walking down the hallway where more than 100 off-duty police officers had gathered outside the courtroom.

The unsealed indictments contained more than 1,600 criminal counts, the bulk of them misdemeanors having to do with making tickets disappear as favors for friends, relatives and others with clout. But they also outlined more serious crimes, related both to ticket-fixing and drugs, grand larceny and unrelated corruption. Four of the officers were charged with helping a man get away with assault.

Jose R. Ramos, an officer in the 40th Precinct whose suspicious behavior spawned the protracted investigation, was accused of two dozen crimes, including attempted robbery, attempted grand larceny, transporting what he thought was heroin for drug dealers and revealing the identity of a confidential informant.

The case, troubling to many New Yorkers because of its implication that the police officers believed they deserved special treatment, is expected to have long tentacles. Scores of other officers accused of fixing tickets could face departmental charges. Some officers have already retired. Moreover, the indictments may jeopardize thousands of cases in which implicated officers are important witnesses and may be seen as untrustworthy by Bronx juries.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/n...et-fixing-arraignments-in-the-bronx.html?_r=1

 

[davmat787]

It depends. Why shouldn't these officers be allowed to adhere to their own morals?

No, it does not depend. Because that is not what they are paid to do or swoar an oath to do, let alone the chaos that would bring?

 

[Phokus]

It's way more than just the 16, it seems...also the 16 seem to have quite a bit of support from the blue line...





http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/n...et-fixing-arraignments-in-the-bronx.html?_r=1

More about this:

http://gothamist.com/2011/10/29/cops_mock_poor_people_calls_prosecu.php#photo-1

500 cops show up to SUPPORT corruption, disgusting. Fuck the NYPD.

 

[gevorg]

More about this:

http://gothamist.com/2011/10/29/cops_mock_poor_people_calls_prosecu.php#photo-1

500 cops show up to SUPPORT corruption, disgusting. Fuck the NYPD.

16 are caught, 500 show up to support it... hmm, I wonder how many thousands are actually doing it.

 

[momeNt]

Yet another black eye for New York's finest. Not as bad as the planing of drugs story from a couple weeks back, but still pretty bad.

New York's finest are out protesting on Wall Street.

 

[Munky]

Good. Crooked cops are just government-sanctioned criminals.

 

[Ausm]

If they didn't want to pay the tickets, they shouldn't have parked illegally.

I think they parked illegally just to get attention

 

[Ausm]

Finally, police corruption gets some spanking!


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/nyregion/in-ticket-fixing-scandal-16-officers-to-be-charged.html

You think that's bad you should have seen the corruption of NYPD in the 70's this isn't squat compared to that

 

[Lithium381]

gross.....