How often is wayyyyyy to often? I for one would be interested in seeing some proof and statistics of what you are saying. I would also like to see the statistics on how many police officers abuse their office compared to the rest of professions and society.
Are police officers held to a higher standard? Absolutely, and they should be. I also point out instances in which police officers are rightly charged and go to jail.
This ain’t one of ‘em. And in a city the size of NY they don’t have time to play around ‘getting even’ with a guy that filmed a video. Especially one that very well may exonerate the officer in question.
Oh PLEASE. LEOs are hardly ever charged and rarely go to jail for their crimes!
How often is wayyy too often? Less than it happens today.
It’s not the city of NY that is playing around “getting even” It’s individual cops and even you would have to admit, it’s happening more and more often.
I don’t know that anyone placed a gun on this guy. Just like you don’t know that they didn’t.
"The New York City Police Department is not exempt from this critique. In 2011, hundreds of drug cases were dismissed after several police officers were accused of mishandling evidence. That year, Justice Gustin L. Reichbach of the State Supreme Court in Brooklyn condemned a widespread culture of lying and corruption in the department’s drug enforcement units. “I thought I was not naïve,” he said when announcing a guilty verdict involving a police detective who had planted crack cocaine on a pair of suspects. “But even this court was shocked, not only by the seeming pervasive scope of misconduct but even more distressingly by the seeming casualness by which such conduct is employed.”
Remarkably, New York City officers have been found to engage in patterns of deceit in cases involving charges as minor as trespass. In September it was reported that the Bronx district attorney’s office was so alarmed by police lying that it decided to stop prosecuting people who were stopped and arrested for trespassing at public housing projects, unless prosecutors first interviewed the arresting officer to ensure the arrest was actually warranted. Jeannette Rucker, the chief of arraignments for the Bronx district attorney, explained in a letter that it had become apparent that the police were arresting people even when there was convincing evidence that they were innocent. To justify the arrests, Ms. Rucker claimed, police officers provided false written statements, and in depositions, the arresting officers gave false testimony.