Posted on 04/20/2011 5:11:49 AM PDT by WaterBoard
A transcript of one wiretap from the investigation offers a sense of just how commonplace the practice is. In a telephone call, a Bronx police officer told a union delegate that a cousin of the officer’s boyfriend had received a speeding ticket in Queens.
The delegate assured her that “I’ll get this taken care of” and promised to call two union officials elsewhere who he thought could help, according to the transcript. The delegate added that even in the “worst-case scenario” — if the ticket was not “pulled tomorrow” — there was still hope, the transcript says. “We’ll speak to the officer,” the delegate said, “and then fix it before trial, O.K.”
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400 cops could be charged for getting rid of tickets
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/cops_in_fix_for_nixing_tix_ZNaA0TCUSn2pazk6TypEdO
The department will charge cops internally in all 12 Bronx precincts — and possibly other boroughs — for allegedly helping out friends and family by “losing” paperwork and missing court dates. In turn, parking tickets, moving violations and quality-of-life summonses would be dismissed in court or vanish before ever getting near a judge.
About half of the two dozen targets of the criminal inquiry into ticket fixing are officials with the police unions, a law enforcement official has said. Mr. Mullins said he knows of one phone paid for by the sergeants’ association that was wiretapped as part of the investigation into ticket fixing.
Mr. Mullins said he wondered how much union business the wiretap picked up.
“If they’re up on a wiretap, at what point do they not have the right to listen to union activity?” he asked of prosecutors and investigators.
But they are cops! /s
Such a racket. Issue a ticket based on conjured up facts that may or may not violate some ordinance. Then collect the reduced penalty yourself.
Once when a cop issued me a ticket, he was willing to take the money then and there, except I was a broke student and had none.
Doesn’t anyone in our various governments speak English any more?
What in the name of all that is holy is a “quality-of-life summons”?
This was supposed to have been eliminated with the electronic ticket machines the parking cops have been using the last few years. Once the ticket is started, there is nothing that stop it from being processed, unlike paper which has a terrible habit of getting lost, ripped, poor writing, etc.
Cops, criminals, union thugs, politicians, lawyers - they’re all cut from the same cloth: involved in corruption, and concerned with the interface between law and power. and money.
If there’s an us-versus-them division in society, that would be the other side.
400?? wow.
>>As of Monday, some 400 police officers are believed to be under investigation,<<
FBN, last might said 40 cops. I wonder if it really is 4000.
I've been hit up for cash too. Paid it, and was on my way. Pure BS.
Once when a cop issued me a ticket, he was willing to take the money then and there, except I was a broke student and had none.
The same thing happened to me in Chicago while on my way to school. The cop took my last two bucks, which was my lunch money for the day. I didn’t eat that day.
Wow , fixing tickets in NYC!!!!!
I am shocked.
Next thing you’re going to tell me is that Nigerian lottery winners don’t randomly chose me to hold their money if I can just pay the transfer fee and taxes. Jeez
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