Posted on 10/13/2011 9:07:27 AM PDT by Cardhu
A former NYPD narcotics detective snared in a corruption scandal testified it was common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas.
The bombshell testimony from Stephen Anderson is the first public account of the twisted culture behind the false arrests in the Brooklyn South and Queens narc squads, which led to the arrests of eight cops and a massive shakeup.
Anderson, testifying under a cooperation agreement with prosecutors, was busted for planting cocaine, a practice known as "flaking," on four men in a Queens bar in 2008 to help out fellow cop Henry Tavarez, whose buy-and-bust activity had been low.
"Tavarez was ... was worried about getting sent back [to patrol] and, you know, the supervisors getting on his case," he recounted at the corruption trial of Brooklyn South narcotics Detective Jason Arbeeny.
"I had decided to give him [Tavarez] the drugs to help him out so that he could say he had a buy," Anderson testified last week in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
He made clear he wasn't about to pass off the two legit arrests he had made in the bar to Tavarez.
"As a detective, you still have a number to reach while you are in the narcotics division," he said.
NYPD officials did not respond to a request for comment.
Anderson worked in the Queens and Brooklyn South narcotics squads and was called to the stand at Arbeeny's bench trial to show the illegal conduct wasn't limited to a single squad.
"Did you observe with some frequency this ... practice which is taking someone who was seemingly not guilty of a crime and laying the drugs on them?" Justice Gustin Reichbach asked Anderson.
"Yes, multiple times," he replied.
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"It was something I was seeing a lot of, whether it was from supervisors or undercovers and even investigators," he said.
NYPD needs a major house cleaning starting at the top.
Everyone else was doing it.....
Is that a defense?
But but but we need to protect people from drugs!!
Bloomturd has more important matters , like regulating transfats ,salt and smoking.
This should be MANDATORY hard time of TWICE the charges they fabricated- no parole.
Let him mix into the general population too. I bet they will welcome him with open arms.
I agree
New York’s NOT SO finest.
“war on drugs.....”
Meanwhile, Max Keiser, a financial analyst and journalist, in a recent interview said that “Jamie” Dimon, current CEO and Chairman of J P Morgan Chase & Co, had given “4.6 million dollars to the New York Police Department to beef up police presence on the streets and to crack heads and to violently oppress protesters.”
And this is the same department whose chief recently acknowledged having the capability to take out an airliner. I wonder if they’ll eventually set a quota for downed aircraft as well....
I’m not at all surprised because something similar happened to me in 1982. That is, I was found guilty for a crime I had nothing to do with. Stories like this just make my blood boil.
Thank political correctness for lowering the standards for the NYPD. Currently the NYPD is responsible for a crime wave in Boomberg/Kelly’s city. Cops are raping, fixing tickets,flaking suspects, stealing etc. It is time to clean up the NYPD.
We need to end this inefficient, expensive ‘war’ on drugs.
If we spent a third of what we’re spending now on prosecution, investigation and incarceration on REHABILITATION, we’d get better results.
we should close the borders to slow drug flow and give non-violent drug offenders rehabilitation instead of incarceration if we really want to make a dent in this problem.
END THIS STUPID “WAR”.
I’ve got a better idea. Legalize all drugs, but drug use would be an aggravating factor in sentencing for all crimes committed while under the influence.
Kill all government drug rehabilitation programs. If they want off, they must take the steps to see to it themselves. Churches and such are welcome to fill in here if they wish.
Drug use will result in permanent loss of all government benefits such as welfare, food stamps, housing or employment. Don’t want junkies making decisions that affect me. This would NOT include such payments they have earned such as pensions.
the motto would be DRUG USE — SINK OR SWIM
Just a bunch of mexican cops.
Just a bunch of mexican cops.
Some police departments have a culture that makes this common, and those departments need to be blown up and reconstituted. You want to talk drug laws, that is a whole different issue.
Agreed-—good post.
Works for me. In 1880 there were no drug laws in America and no serious drug problems, nobody should need to be Albert Einstein to figure that one out...
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