Posted on 04/28/2011 6:38:42 AM PDT by WaterBoard
Thirty cops were secretly recorded during the massive probe, and what was heard on thousands of hours of tape goes far beyond just making traffic violations disappear for family and friends. Sources tell me what's yet to come out is potentially criminal conduct:
• Several officers allegedly tried to deep-six domestic violence incidents involving off-duty cops before police headquarters found out.
• Others allegedly tried to quash drunk-driving incidents involving their brethren.
• And still others were allegedly overheard making arrangements for and paying prostitutes.
Evidence is being presented to a Bronx grand jury that's weighing criminal charges.
A source says they include officers in virtually every rank: a chief; one inspector; four deputy inspectors; four captains; 10 lieutenants; 25 detectives; 30 sergeants; and the rest are police officers, many of them union delegates.
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Cops do those kinds of things??? I’m shocked.
A woman tried to report her boyfriend, who was a local cop, for spouse abuse and the chief went by and talked her out of it. She broke off the relationship with him, but he continued stalking her. One day he broke into her house and shot her in the head and buried her body in the woods behind her house. That’s when the whole story came out about her attempts to make complaints and it getting covered up.
Cops do this in California as well. I have been the passenger of cars pulled over where the Officer lets the badge holder off for DWI (twice) and Speeding and Careless Driving (once).
Then the clowns cite citizens for 8 mph over the PSL on a clear, deserted roadway.
Most police forces show... deferential discretion... To fellow officers, friends and family of such. 10% of officers in any given department are simply criminals with badges.
This is nothing new. It happens everywhere. I have been told that the rap sheet for some Pa State Troopers is thicker than some of the criminals that are in jail, but these guys are still on the job.
“One day he broke into her house and shot her in the head and buried her body in the woods behind her house.”
I’m sure that the internal investigation will clear the cop, this was obviously a good shoot in that the officer felt his safety was in danger from this vicious woman. And hey, don’t we all just freak out sometimes and tamper with the evidence. So nothing to see here, just move along.
“And a retired NYPD officer wrote a letter to the New York Post noting that ticket fixing has been going for decades. He tells the story of how as a rookie sergeant, he ordered cops to ticket 30 cars which had been double-parked for more than an hour outside Prospect Hall in Brooklyn.
“The next day, I was called in by the precinct commander, who excoriated me because the owner of Prospect Hall was a friend of the borough commander,” he writes. “All the tickets were removed from the summons box and destroyed, and I was transferred. So much for doing the right thing.”
This has really ramped up around me too. With cities & counties under financial pressure, people just going to work are being ticketed much more than usual (just my observation). I travel to work before 6AM and am seeing patrols parked watching the highway waiting for a speeder.
It's particularly frustrating because I have to frequent an area at least twice a week where the drug deals are right out in the open and not a cop in sight.
New York’s Finest...wow.
Colonel, USAFR
“Officer Safety” is paramount.
Criminals with badges.
DWI (twice) and Speeding and Careless Driving (once).
Spend lotsa hi-velocity time with careless, drunk cops, do ya?.
They’ve lowered our speed limits everywhere, 35 MPH is the fastest you can go within 2 miles of town and most are now 25. It is stupid and disgusting, we pay for the roads and maintenance and then we can go no faster than a bicycle could.
Can you document that 10% claim?
Some are drunk with power.
Just from what officers I know have told me.
Lawrence Police
Massachusetts State police
Lowell police
Danvers Police
And one or two others.
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