So, what's the problem?
Posted on 03/02/2008 6:30:03 PM PST by elkfersupper
Jay Dow HOBOKEN, N.J. (CBS) ― The racy photos of cops cavorting with Hooters waitresses rocked the Hoboken Police Department. Now, officers face disciplinary charges after a scathing report on their conduct was released.
The photos embarrassed and brought unwanted attention to the Hoboken police.
Officers of the disbanded SWAT team and their chief are seen in the photos having a ball during Mardi Gras, and with Hooters waitresses during the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
Retiring Hoboken patrolman John Camile told CBS 2 HD he's moving on with a bit of a heavy heart.
"You feel that weight that people are taking everything and putting down the police department," retiring Hoboken cop John Camile told CBS 2 HD.
But for several of his colleagues, who now face disciplinary charges after a specially commissioned report recommended the department take action, this ordeal is far from over.
"All are being held to account for their actions," Hoboken Mayor David Roberts said.
That could be bad news for five officers who are suing the department and SWAT leader, Lt. Angelo Andriani.
The officers claim Andriani intimidated them into attending the outings documented in the photos.
Andriani firmly denies the allegations.
But lawyers for both sides are accusing the city of conducting a flawed internal investigation.
"They have taken this action to shield Hoboken from any civil liability," attorney Louis Zayas said.
Andriani's attorney told CBS 2 HD the officers are being punished due to the mayor's embarrassment and the internal investigation is more of a sham.
"It's like Alice in Wonderland," Charles Sciarra said. "This is all political and not a legitimate investigation. The city is trying to undo the damage that was done when the mayor watched all this happen."
Hoboken Police Chief Carmen Labruno has been noticeably absent during the news conferences regarding this story. And Mayor Roberts won't say if it's because the chief is just shy of news cameras or if he's a focus of this investigation.
Hoboken officials say they'll release names next week.
Mayor Roberts says a state judicial official will oversee the upcoming hearings on the case.
If any of us do that, they call.........the SWAT team.
IMHO the members of the SWAT team should have been strip searched by the Hooter girls.
I suppose the PC crowd would have preferred them to go to a Chippendale’s show?
“This is my rifle, this is my gun....”
IMO its generally a good thing when SWAT teams are disbanded. The trip to Hooters isnt a good reason though. Letting the hooters waitresses handle their firearms is.
>>this ordeal is far from over.
>>”All are being held to account for their actions,”
WTH were their actions that were so egregious that disciplinary action is required? All that text, and the idiot reporter didn’t manage to answer so basic a question?
Sheesh.
This thread is worthless without . . . . . . . . . .
Break in the wrong house and kill the family dog in front of crying kids, no problem. But have a little fun with some pretty girls during Mardi Gras? Oh, the humanity!
So, what's the problem?
Wish someone would force me to go to Hooters.
I’m sure they asked for that kind of special attention.
Just too many things here to ever get a straight story: SWAT Team cops, no paragons of virtue, from New Jersey, as corrupt as any place on the planet and in New Orleans - and all on the taxpayers’ dime. If there’s even one clean hand in this...
I just don't have a problem.
Something about Hooter's girls handling grenade launchers and select-fire weapons appeals to me.
I wish they all would do that.
Good grief. What’s the big deal?
Am I missing something here?
The photos embarrassed and brought unwanted attention to the Hoboken police.
Facing disciplinary charges is UTTER nonsense! Is the police chief a sissy or something like that? Someone there needs to get a life. The Hoboken Police Department ought to be proud that its men are MEN!
"If that's a crime, then lock me up."
“Facing disciplinary charges is UTTER nonsense! “
So its appropriate for police officers to let waitresses handle their automatic weapons? Seems irresponsible to me.
Heck they should all be fired for wasting taxpayer money. They went to New Orleans to work, not flirt with the bimbos at hooters.
You're one of the hostages, but not before you've been put in a position of submission and uselessness by having your knee shot off.
Bleeding, in a daze ... maybe even crying a little ... don't you just wish there was a sharpshooter out there ...capable and at the ready for a head shot to the mf that keeps yelling out the door and at you?
"Why don't they shoot?' you keep thinking in your mind ... but then you remember .. "Oh yeah ... the SWAT team was disbanded last month"
Just damn! ... eh?
Yes, from the picture I would say it's a white, heterosexual, law enforcement officer having fun with alcohol, very attractive women, and firearms. I am hard pressed to think of anything that the left would find more upsetting unless we found out they are paying for part of their own health care and retirement to boot.
25 photos at the link.
At least they were apparently coached to keep their manicures clear of the "go" buttons.
Yeah, well, it was a tough assignment but someone had to go in there.
why is this being posted anyway...its from 2006...there's enough to talke about in 2008.
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