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400 NYPD Bronx Cops Under Investigation - Fixing Tickets
WSJ ^ | April 19, 2011 | Aaron Rutkoff

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: New York
KEYWORDS: corruption; donutwatch; thinblueline
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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

1 posted on 04/20/2011 5:11:51 AM PDT by WaterBoard
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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.


2 posted on 04/20/2011 5:13:09 AM PDT by WaterBoard
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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.


3 posted on 04/20/2011 5:16:22 AM PDT by WaterBoard
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But they are cops! /s


4 posted on 04/20/2011 5:29:39 AM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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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.


5 posted on 04/20/2011 5:46:32 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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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”?


6 posted on 04/20/2011 5:57:29 AM PDT by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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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.


7 posted on 04/20/2011 6:03:29 AM PDT by kevinm13 (Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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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.


8 posted on 04/20/2011 6:14:32 AM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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400?? wow.


9 posted on 04/20/2011 6:15:31 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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>>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.


10 posted on 04/20/2011 6:17:08 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are .)
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Are these real cops or the traffic control officers that aren't really cops, but work under the NYPD ?
11 posted on 04/20/2011 6:55:08 AM PDT by JimC214
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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.

I've been hit up for cash too. Paid it, and was on my way. Pure BS.

12 posted on 04/20/2011 6:55:12 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (My dream thread: Mormon cop shoots Catholic Freeper's Pit Bull and takes his Macbook Pro.)
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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.


13 posted on 04/20/2011 7:05:11 AM PDT by chainsaw ("The government cannot give to anyone anything that it does not first take from someone else.")
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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


14 posted on 04/20/2011 7:07:49 AM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat, they sh#t on.)
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