In a startling example of how the NYPD bends the law for friends, an NYPD deputy inspector shamelessly wrote a memo on his own departmental stationery ordering a lieutenant to fix a traffic ticket for a lifelong pal, The Post has learned.
The lieutenant then ominously warned the Bronx cop who wrote the ticket
"it would be in his best interest" to make it disappear, sources said.
Bronx Deputy Inspector Wayne Bax
A memo scrawled on the letterhead of Bronx Deputy Inspector Wayne Bax requests that a 52nd Precinct lieutenant scrap a ticket written against one of Bax's pals.
“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.”