Posted on 09/23/2015 8:52:13 PM PDT by smokingfrog
A New York City police officer pleaded guilty to attempted murder on Tuesday for firing a barrage of bullets at a car in Westchester County last year, an unprompted, drunken attack that seriously injured a 47-year-old passenger.
Under a plea deal, the officer, Brendan Cronin, 28, will be sentenced to nine years in state prison in December, a spokesman for the Westchester district attorney, Janet DiFiore, said. The plea occurred in State Supreme Court in White Plains, the spokesman said.
The shooting, shortly before midnight on April 29, 2014, came amid a series of alcohol-fueled episodes involving off-duty police officers, something the city’s police commissioner, William J. Bratton, said at the time had disturbed him. It came days before another embarrassing episode in which investigators said an intoxicated Brooklyn detective shot his partner in the wrist as the two sat in an unmarked patrol car.
Before Officer Cronin opened fire, he had been drinking alcohol for several hours at a bar on City Island after a day of tactical training at a Police Department facility on Rodman’s Neck, in the Bronx, officials said.
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9 years is a very short sentence for this crime.
Hopefully the victim will get a huge payout from the city. And, the perp will have the hardest 9 years imaginable in prison.
That bus has a lot more wheels than the officer thinks it has ... it may take his entire incarceration for him to get even close to an accurate count.
If he survives, I hope he has a life
As far as I am concerned...Govt servants should be punished 5X the LAW!
40X in the senate or house.
booha
BS
They should be held accountable as History dictates, I especially like the way Mussolini paid his debt to society.
I'd be willing to settle for the same exact sentence a (poor) civilian relying on pro bono lawyers/free-legal representation would receive.
Something tells me such a person wouldn't receive the same sentence the cop received, which is why I would be okay with cops who commit crimes to get the same sentencing as poor civilians would get if they committed the same time - whether that sentence is greater or lower. I'd be willing to bet the sentence for the poor civilian would be drastically higher, but hey - what's good for civilians should be good for cops, since after all, police ARE civilians.
“Hopefully the victim will get a huge payout from the city.”.....
You missed adding in the civil suits against the cop himself. He will be paying for that the rest of his life.
I’ll bet I would have gotten much more than nine years for this crime, assuming I survived the arrest while still armed. Cops should face the same justice the general public would when they commit crimes including the crime of invading the wrong address.
Bankruptcy discharges civil judgments.
Nothing in the interviews for this job suggested he might be a loose cannon?
Unfortunately they very well may be.
Just imagine what might have happened if someone in the car he shot-up was armed and had fired back....
Of course, this is NY, so not too likely. Don’t try this in Texas.
We should ban this dangerous drug.
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