Why don't they screen the people they hire, and do a decent background check?
https://www.jalopnik.com/2202744/nypd-bans-second-most-ticketed-driver-from-squad-cars/
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Monday, July 06, 2026
Thursday, September 12, 2024
in New York Police Dept ignominy news
You're likely to remember the NYPD Courtesy Card...
Bianchi patrolled on Staten Island, where he estimated as many as half the drivers he pulled over had one of the cards, he told The Post. Officers can buy 30 of them a year for $1 each, he said. They’re given not only to friends and family, but also in exchange for perks like meal discounts, he said, adding that he believes that is violating the public’s trust that police treat everyone equally.
On Tuesday, Bianchi, 40, settled the 16-month-old lawsuit against the city and a police captain for $175,000. In a 41-page complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for Southern New York, Bianchi outlined an unofficial but strictly maintained system in which those who have courtesy cards “can break the law with impunity.” Bianchi said that, although he has settled what he described as a whistleblower’s lawsuit, the “courtesy card” system continues unabated, and he is worried it will keep going until a driver who has repeatedly escaped punishment kills someone.
New York Police Commissioner Edward Caban resigned Thursday amid a federal investigation
Caban, the city’s first Latino police commissioner, took over the department in July 2023 after being tapped by Mayor Eric Adams, whose administration is the target of multiple federal investigations.
Caban's twin brother, James Caban, who owns a nightclub security business, also had his phone seized in the corruption investigation involving the NYPD.
Federal investigators want to know if James Caban profited from his ties to his powerful brother and the NYPD, according to multiple sources. Specifically, the investigation is looking into whether James Caban was paid by bars and clubs in Midtown Manhattan and Queens to act as a police liaison, and if those clubs were then afforded special treatment by local precincts, the sources said.
well, one good cop got fed up with most of the people he pulled over expecting to get away with the variety of traffic violations because they had one...
Caban's twin brother, James Caban, who owns a nightclub security business, also had his phone seized in the corruption investigation involving the NYPD.
Federal investigators want to know if James Caban profited from his ties to his powerful brother and the NYPD, according to multiple sources. Specifically, the investigation is looking into whether James Caban was paid by bars and clubs in Midtown Manhattan and Queens to act as a police liaison, and if those clubs were then afforded special treatment by local precincts, the sources said.
Monday, August 12, 2024
Police have arrested an NYPD officer who they say fled the scene of a Brooklyn car crash without reporting it while on-duty.
Posting in amazement that the NYPD did the right thing in arresting one of their own.
You must start enforcing laws, and being accountable, IN HOUSE before giving any one else the business for breaking a law
Like I've said before, I'm not out to bust the balls of all cops utterly one sided for every fucked up thing they do, but they simply do more illegal shit every day than criminals, unless something completely off script happens every blue moon, like this... and I am certainly out to compliment police for a job well done.
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Friday, May 24, 2024
Did NYPD influence the Hudson PD to get scooters? Or vice versa? .
the Spanish Eibar factory-built Lambretta Li 150 Special scooters manufactured for the New York Police Department back in the 1970s
the total number of Italian scooters across the 79 precincts was an even 1,000.
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2022/06/a-couple-days-ago-i-posted-strange.html was the post about the Rabbit Scooter the Hudson PD used
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
the federal Department of Justice issued a warning to the NYPD to stop illegally parking police cruisers on sidewalks... for a good reason, but not as simple as "be professional, stop breaking the parking laws, you mooks!" Instead, it's quite legal... the federal law about the sidewalks must be clear for wheelchairs! Huh! I like that!
The U.S. Department of Justice issued a letter to the police department last month warning that illegally parking in that manner is a violation of the American with Disabilities Act, and gave the NYPD two weeks to respond and comply
You'd expect that the police department would comprehend what that means... that they are acting illegally, have been busted, and must toe the line, LEGALLY, and learn how to PARK
When confronted by CBS news, the police relied on the excuse it will not accept from citizens who illegally part, and I quote "there is limited parking space near its police stations."
So, the lack of parking justifies illegally parking as far as the NYPD is concerned, as long as it benefits them? It seems that is the only excuse they have. Mighty damn weak.
District U.S. Attorney Damian Wiliams cites a recent study that found city vehicles block sidewalks or crosswalks outside 91% of NYPD precincts.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
an NYPD officer with principles, decided to ticket cars with "police benevolent assoc" cards, because those people know they are parking illegally, and he decided enough with the bullshit corruption just for illegal parking
Bianchi is speaking out against the use of "courtesy cards" by friends and relatives of cops, accusing department leaders of maintaining a sprawling system of impunity that has fueled both reckless driving and racist traffic stops. The laminated cards have long been treated as a perk of the job, allowing those with a connection to law enforcement to get out of a traffic stop or other minor infraction.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/nyregion/mathew-bianchi-nypd-traffic-tickets.html
Paywall, but I bet it's a very interesting read, here is another article that isn't paywalled https://www.silive.com/crime-safety/2023/06/staten-island-nypd-officer-alleges-he-was-punished-for-refusing-to-honor-courtesy-cards.html
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Over nine months in 2021, a Brooklyn resident filed 901 complaints over the police vehicles parked on the sidewalk outside the 84th Precinct station house.
On Sept. 10, 2021, Sherwood received a bizarre phone call.
In a recording of the call provided to Gothamist, NYPD Officer John Madera, identifying himself as a 311 operator named “Josh Hayden,” asked Sherwood, “Why do you keep putting over the same 311 job over and over and over again?”
However, contact information and details in 311 complaints are confidential, and by calling Sherwood, the police officer who was impersonating a fake identity, was violating the law.
Sherwood alleges in a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn federal court that the call wasn't the only response to his many complaints. He says NYPD Detective Samantha Sturman — also of the 84th Precinct — called him in August 2021, seeking to arrange a meeting to discuss the parking issues. Sherwood declined, prompting an argument that concluded with Sturman ending the call by yelling, "Stop calling, d---head!" the suit states.
Two months later, on Oct. 18, 2021, Streetsblog first reported on the suspicious 311 call. Sherwood’s lawsuit states he received a text message that same day from an unknown number stating “Keep f------ around.” Separate investigations by NYPD's internal affairs investigators and the Civilian Complaint Review Board established misconduct against Sturman in connection with the "singular threatening text message," Deputy Chief Lourdes Soto wrote in a letter to the CCRB.
A judge approved Sherwood's settlement earlier this month, ordering the city to pay $24,000 and Madera and Sturman to each pay $500.
Sherwood's lawyer Gideon Oliver said he couldn’t comment on the case because much of the evidence remains sealed. He’s asking the judge overseeing the case to make the records public.
“Part of what’s important to Mr. Sherwood is being able to shed as much light as possible on what happened to him and on the city’s responses or lack of responses,” said Oliver. Sherwood's legal team received a $132,500 from the city for legal fees as part of the settlement.
The debate over police officers parking illegally outside their precincts has sparked outrage among good government and advocacy groups in recent years. Former Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2019 announced his administration would crack down on city employees who abused parking placards — but advocates argue the move did little to keep police from parking on sidewalks.
Federal prosecutors last year filed a “statement of interest” in a lawsuit filed by disabled residents of a Bronx neighborhood, which stated the NYPD and other city agencies are required to keep sidewalks clear of obstructions or risk violating federal law.
“Part of what’s important to Mr. Sherwood is being able to shed as much light as possible on what happened to him and on the city’s responses or lack of responses,” said Oliver. Sherwood's legal team received a $132,500 from the city for legal fees as part of the settlement.
The debate over police officers parking illegally outside their precincts has sparked outrage among good government and advocacy groups in recent years. Former Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2019 announced his administration would crack down on city employees who abused parking placards — but advocates argue the move did little to keep police from parking on sidewalks.
Federal prosecutors last year filed a “statement of interest” in a lawsuit filed by disabled residents of a Bronx neighborhood, which stated the NYPD and other city agencies are required to keep sidewalks clear of obstructions or risk violating federal law.
Thursday, October 12, 2023
the HBO drama, the Sopranos, had a lot of viewers getting an idea how the mafia could be running the trash disposal industry, and strip clubs. But would you guess the tow truck companies?
A Brooklyn tow company owner who raised big bucks for Mayor Eric Adams and faces bribery charges tied to his interactions with a former top mayoral aide has been enmeshed in scandals dating back 25 years — including one in which prosecutors alleged his company was controlled by the Genovese crime family.
Last month Michael Mazzio, 54, was indicted on charges of bribing Eric Ulrich, while Ulrich was a top aide to Adams. In exchange for cash and Mets tickets, prosecutors allege that Ulrich got Mazzio access to Adams’ chief advisor, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, and snagged him a sit-down dinner with the mayor himself.
Before that, Mazzio and his company, Mike’s Heavy Duty Towing, had turned up in the middle of two scandals that highlight a longstanding effort by the towing industry to corrupt the system New York City uses to regulate who gets to tow disabled vehicles.
Mike’s Heavy Duty first emerged in a 1998 lawsuit alleging the city’s system for regulating which companies are permitted to tow vehicles off of city highways was corrupt. And Mazzio and his company were indicted in a 2018 case that included allegations of Mafia control of New York’s towing industry.
prosecutors say Mazzio was bribing Ulrich and communicating with Adams’ chief advisor, Lewis-Martin, in 2021 about reinstating his license, getting work towing vehicles stuck on highways during snow storms, and revoking the highway permit of a rival firm, Runway Towing.
Behind the scenes, this sometimes pugilistic industry has been plagued by mob infiltration. As the then-Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. put it in a 2018 case filed against Mazzio and 10 other tow companies and their affiliated auto body shops, “The New York City towing industry is influenced by organized crime.”
The city’s system for regulating the towing of vehicles within its borders has been tainted again and again with allegations of bribery, bid-rigging and general day-to-day corruption.
This is particularly true regarding the system managed by the NYPD to regulate which companies are granted permits to haul vehicles off highways, parkways, expressways, bridges and tunnels.
In 2017, the NYPD began suggesting that, in addition to the base fee they’re required to pay, applicants should also pay the department an unspecified “vendor proposed percentage” of the fees they collect for highway towing. One vendor who declined to make such a payment was rejected and alleged that the NYPD only awarded permits to tow companies that kicked in this extra lucre.
For the last two weeks the NYPD has refused to provide THE CITY with a list of the companies currently holding highway towing permits or to reveal how much they’ve collected in fees and “vendor proposed percentage” over the last two years. The city comptroller, who reviews and registers all contracts with city agencies, has no information about who is doing this work and how much the companies are paying the NYPD for these permits.
QED, the NYPD is on the take, paid by the mafia, and won't disclose who or how much.
That ought to be an invetigative drama Netflix series
Last month Michael Mazzio, 54, was indicted on charges of bribing Eric Ulrich, while Ulrich was a top aide to Adams. In exchange for cash and Mets tickets, prosecutors allege that Ulrich got Mazzio access to Adams’ chief advisor, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, and snagged him a sit-down dinner with the mayor himself.
Before that, Mazzio and his company, Mike’s Heavy Duty Towing, had turned up in the middle of two scandals that highlight a longstanding effort by the towing industry to corrupt the system New York City uses to regulate who gets to tow disabled vehicles.
Mike’s Heavy Duty first emerged in a 1998 lawsuit alleging the city’s system for regulating which companies are permitted to tow vehicles off of city highways was corrupt. And Mazzio and his company were indicted in a 2018 case that included allegations of Mafia control of New York’s towing industry.
prosecutors say Mazzio was bribing Ulrich and communicating with Adams’ chief advisor, Lewis-Martin, in 2021 about reinstating his license, getting work towing vehicles stuck on highways during snow storms, and revoking the highway permit of a rival firm, Runway Towing.
Behind the scenes, this sometimes pugilistic industry has been plagued by mob infiltration. As the then-Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. put it in a 2018 case filed against Mazzio and 10 other tow companies and their affiliated auto body shops, “The New York City towing industry is influenced by organized crime.”
The city’s system for regulating the towing of vehicles within its borders has been tainted again and again with allegations of bribery, bid-rigging and general day-to-day corruption.
This is particularly true regarding the system managed by the NYPD to regulate which companies are granted permits to haul vehicles off highways, parkways, expressways, bridges and tunnels.
In 2017, the NYPD began suggesting that, in addition to the base fee they’re required to pay, applicants should also pay the department an unspecified “vendor proposed percentage” of the fees they collect for highway towing. One vendor who declined to make such a payment was rejected and alleged that the NYPD only awarded permits to tow companies that kicked in this extra lucre.
For the last two weeks the NYPD has refused to provide THE CITY with a list of the companies currently holding highway towing permits or to reveal how much they’ve collected in fees and “vendor proposed percentage” over the last two years. The city comptroller, who reviews and registers all contracts with city agencies, has no information about who is doing this work and how much the companies are paying the NYPD for these permits.
QED, the NYPD is on the take, paid by the mafia, and won't disclose who or how much.
That ought to be an invetigative drama Netflix series
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
here's something about parking I've never heard of before... cops parking on sidewalks in New York... illegally, for decades, and the fake placards parking... occupying roughly 65 percent of all the legal or potentially legal parking spaces
Who is parking there? The police, they also are on the left side of the street, but, down, past the school
and the only place they park on the sidewalk, in the entire neighborhood (satellite view on Google) is in front of the school
and this Wrangler, parks exactly blocking the wheelchair access.
Yes, really all those illegally parked cars are NYPD.
But, you want to see proof, of course. I gotcha
Those placards and fakes allow the owner to park for free (legally or illegally) in one of the world's most-congested places.
every single car was checked that parked in the roughly 30-square-block zone bounded by Canal, Lafayette and Chambers streets and West Broadway and Varick Street bearing a placard or other quasi-official emblem (mostly fake placards or agency vests, hats, safety helmets, fake badges, patches, business cards or hand-written notes).
This map was made interactive at https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/08/22/the-ultimate-placard-census-downtown-is-choked-with-and-endangered-by-city-state-federal-workers-cars Click on any blue car (at the link) symbol to see the placard itself
of the 727 placard- or fake-placard-bearing cars in the zone, occupying roughly 65 percent of all the legal or potentially legal parking spaces, which does not count the scores of placarded cars occupying illegal parking spaces that are supposed to be set aside for other uses (such as meters or truck loading and unloading).
The placards in this mostly federal office zone break down as such
Federal law enforcement: 183 (or 25 percent)
NYPD: 128 (or 18 percent)
NYS Court placards: 70 (or 9.6 percent)
Department of Correction or Probation: 51 (or 7 percent)
Other city agencies: 59 (or 8 percent)
FDNY: 37 (or 5 percent)
and 57 (or 8 percent) completely ridiculous things on the dash such as notes ("armed officer," "please don't ticket me" or "call me"), fake badges, helmets, vests, official looking placards from other jurisdictions, doorman notes, repair worker notes, fake parking tickets, notes from "friends" of cops, hotel loading zones)
Nearly 10 percent of the placards (65 in all) were expired. About 2 percent of the cars with placards (14 cars) had covered or defaced plates and about 3 percent had a missing front New York State or New Jersey plate. (Both states require drivers to have plates on both sides of the car.) Of those 727 cars, we found: 9,064 parking and moving violation tickets — or an average of 12.5 tickets per car. 2,864 speed-camera tickets — or an average of four per car.* 485 red-light tickets — or about one ticket for every two cars.*
No one is monitoring whether placard recipients are abusing their privileges. In calendar year 2019, the NYPD received 4,696 requests for federal placards ... and granted 4,696 federal placards, or 100 percent.
The next year, the NYPD received 4,896 requests ... and granted 100 percent of them.
And in 2021, the NYPD received 4,896 federal placard requests ... and (you guessed it) granted every single one of them.
The same pattern holds for MTA placards and District Attorney placards. Hundreds of applications submitted, every single one of them rubber-stamped for approval. One hundred percent.
The next year, the NYPD received 4,896 requests ... and granted 100 percent of them.
And in 2021, the NYPD received 4,896 federal placard requests ... and (you guessed it) granted every single one of them.
The same pattern holds for MTA placards and District Attorney placards. Hundreds of applications submitted, every single one of them rubber-stamped for approval. One hundred percent.
Tuesday, September 05, 2023
The NYPD might stop violating constitutional rights at protests. I know, not likely, but they're in court and lost lawsuits brought by Attorney General Letitia James, the Legal Aid Society, and the New York Civil Liberties Union
The lawsuits proved that police used excessive force, made illegal arrests and violated protesters’ First Amendment rights. If they hadn't, the NYPD wouldn't be forced to giving in.
"The Police Benevolent Association, which represents rank-and-file officers, said it would not."
With that much evidence that they are criminally guilty, how is it that the Mayor, the police commissioner, and the police union are not going to be found guilty, and removed from their jobs?
"Protesters filed hundreds of lawsuits and civilian complaints, describing chaotic scenes with police driving through crowds, indiscriminately spewing pepper spray, breaking bones with baton strikes and numbing demonstrator's hands with tight zip ties.
The Civilian Complaint Review Board, which investigates some allegations of police misconduct, found that at least 146 members of service who responded to the protests broke department policy"
None lost their badge, none were arrested for breaking bones, none arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, with a police cruiser.
Monday, August 28, 2023
a decade after a federal judge ruled that stop and frisk by New York's mayor Bloomberg's police department was unconstitutional, the NYPD has stopped tens of thousands of pedestrians since current Mayor Adams took office
A federal monitor found that 24% of stops made by the NYPD Neighborhood Safety Teams last year were unconstitutional.
Police officers reported stopping 8,502 pedestrians in the first half of 2023 – a dramatic drop from the stop and frisk heights of 2011 when police made nearly 700,000 pedestrian stops.
But as Gothamist previously reported, those peak numbers rival the amount of stops the police made with drivers last year, roughly 670,000. About 90% of the drivers searched or arrested were Black or Latino.
On December 22, 1994, 29-year-old Nuyorican Anthony Baez was choked to death by police officer Francis X. Livoti in the University Heights section of the Bronx for accidentally hitting a police car with a ball. In 1998, Livoti was convicted of violating Baez' civil rights, and two other officers were convicted of lying on the witness stand at Livoti's trial.
On April 17, 1985, Mark Davidson was arrested by undercover detectives on charges of drug dealing and taken to NYPD's 106th precinct in Ozone Park, Queens, where he was beaten and tortured with a stun gun and threatened with torture on his genitals into making a false confession. On May 3, 1986, Sgt. Richard Pike, Jeffrey Gilbert and Loren MacLary were each convicted of assault and were sentenced to four to six years.
In December 1986, 11 NYPD officers were arrested from the 77th Precinct station house in the first major instance of corruption after the Knapp Commission. The investigation came to be known as the "Buddy Boys" case. The officers, "who knocked down doors, stole money and drugs from drug dealers and resold the stolen drugs," also "ran extortion operations within the precinct," according to a corruption timeline prepared by The New York Times. Eventually, 13 officers were indicted, and all of the nearly 200 officers at the 77th Precinct station house had to be transferred to other Brooklyn precincts, except for 1 union delegate. A special state prosecutor, Charles Hynes, found later to be corrupt himself, had to present evidence to a special grand jury in the corruption investigation
In May 1992, five current and one retired NYPD officers were arrested and charged with trafficking drugs from Brooklyn into Long Island. Two of the officers were partners at the 75th Precinct, whilst the other officers were from the 73rd Precinct. Prosecutors alleged that one of the officers arrested, Michael Dowd, knew when he was under surveillance and may have benefited from tips from department investigators. How Dowd may have managed, for some time, to evade investigation became a subject of inquiry by the Mollen Commission.[106] Officer Kenny Eurell, who also was one of the officers arrested at the same time as Dowd, tape-recorded Dowd plotting an elaborate plan to skip bail. His bail was revoked and later Dowd was convicted of racketeering and conspiracy to distribute narcotics and served 12 years in prison.[107] In 2014, a documentary was released, The Seven Five, detailing Michael Dowd's career with the NYPD
On August 9, 1997, NYPD Officer Justin Volpe in Brooklyn sodomized Abner Louima with a broken broom handle in a 70th Precinct bathroom after lying about Abner attacking him and arresting him. Officer Volpe eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. Other officers were also implicated and convicted on charges stemming from the initial cover-up.
On February 4, 1999, four plainclothes NYPD officers assigned to the Street Crime Unit in the Bronx fired 41 gunshots at Amadou Diallo, killing him instantly. Diallo, whom the officers mistook for a since-convicted rapist, was later found to be unarmed.
Occupy Wall Street activist Michael Premo was arrested on December 17, 2011 and charged with assaulting an officer. Prosecutors argued and the arresting officer gave sworn testimony that Premo "charged the police like a linebacker, taking out a lieutenant and resisting arrest so forcefully that he fractured an officer's bone." The defense located a video that was taken by freelancer Jon Gerberg which contradicted the sworn testimony, instead showing officers "tackling [Premo] as he attempted to get back on his feet". Prosecutors claimed no video of Premo's arrest existed, yet the Gerberg video clearly showed an NYPD officer also filming Premo's arrest. Nick Pinto of Village Voice wrote that "information provided by the NYPD in the trial was fabricated to such a degree that the allegations made by the police officers have turned out to be quite literally the opposite of what actually happened.
On September 29, 2013, motorcyclists participated in a rally called "Hollywood's Block Party" on New York City's Henry Hudson Parkway. One of the bikers pulled in front of Alexian Lien and slowed dramatically, "brake checking". Lien stopped his vehicle and was quickly surrounded by bikers. Lien accelerated to escape and struck one of the bikers, critically injuring him. A chase ensued, ending in Lien being pulled from his vehicle and beaten. The attack was caught on video and the NYPD faced criticism when some of the bikers involved in the chase and attack were identified as off-duty New York City police officers. Ten-year veteran and undercover detective Wojciech Braszczok surrendered to authorities and was arrested on October 8. An undercover narcotics detective has been identified by the press as being present but not participating in the assault. Sources have reported a total of five off-duty officers were originally present on the West Side Highway, and that at least two saw the assault.
But as Gothamist previously reported, those peak numbers rival the amount of stops the police made with drivers last year, roughly 670,000. About 90% of the drivers searched or arrested were Black or Latino.
How the mayor, a black man, can be a supporter of this racist police department, can only be supposed is because he was an NYPD captain, and Brooklyn Borough President, and it's likely, based on the racist behavior of police across America, that either police become racist, or racist people gravitate toward police work because of the immunity to being prosecuted for criminal behavior, and the other perks of having a badge (no speeding tickets, free donuts and coffee, parking in the red or where ever the hell they want, anytime, early retirement, lifelong pension equal to the last paycheck, bribes, extortion, selling access to police records and databases, courtesy cards and tax free income from selling courtesy cards https://www.ebay.com/itm/144835840537?hash=item21b8e38a19:g:fmEAAOSwQJNjiQDA , )
By the way, the budget for the NYPD is around 10 billion annually. https://www.businessinsider.com/the-real-cost-of-police-nypd-actually-10-billion-year-2020-8
The cost to the New York City in lawsuits which result in settlements because the police or the city are not willing to go into a courtroom to publicly defend their behavior, is somewhere around 1.5 billion, and personal injury and property damage claims payouts cost the City $688.4 million.
The cost of civil rights claim payouts in 2022 was $143.2 million.
As the New York Daily News reported, as of May 2018, NYPD Detective Scarcella's homicide cases had resulted in wrongful convictions for at least 13 individuals with a combined 245 years in prison, and the city and state had paid at least $53.3 million in legal settlements because of his "shady investigations involving tainted evidence, misleading testimony or forced confessions"
New York City paid out more than $50 million to settle claims of police misconduct in the first seven months of this year, with the median amount already higher than the last five years, according to an analysis from the Legal Aid Society. The price tag covered the resolution of more than 400 lawsuits between January and late July, based on the organization’s analysis of city data.
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/crime/2023/05/31/nypd-police-officer-cites-courtesy-cards-used-by-friends-and-family-of-cops-as-source-of-corruption
NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, a long-time ally of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, is currently facing a department trial over allegations that he improperly voided the arrest of a former officer accused of menacing children with a gun.
Remember, NYPD was so corrupt, Al Pacino starred in the movie showing Frank Serpico's experience being honest and professional.
Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa were simultaneously on the payrolls of the NYPD and the Lucchese crime family and were abusing their authority as officers of the NYPD. They would routinely violate the civil rights of the citizens of New York City, and moonlighted for the crime family. They would use NYPD files to track down the enemies of the crime family
From 1949 to 1950, deputy assistant Brooklyn District Attorney Helfand conducted a probe into allegations that bookmaker Harry Gross' $20 million a year operation was protected by members of the NYPD and city government. The investigation led to the conviction of 10 police officers and the resignation of New York City Police Commissioner William O'Brien
Thirty-three officers were arrested in a wide-ranging investigation of corruption at the 30th Precinct station house in Harlem. Some of the police officers would illegally search known drug dealers' apartments, seizing drugs and cash. The police officers would then sell the seized drugs straight out of the 30th Precinct station house itself at half-market price in order to profit from their spoils.
On December 22, 1994, 29-year-old Nuyorican Anthony Baez was choked to death by police officer Francis X. Livoti in the University Heights section of the Bronx for accidentally hitting a police car with a ball. In 1998, Livoti was convicted of violating Baez' civil rights, and two other officers were convicted of lying on the witness stand at Livoti's trial.
On April 17, 1985, Mark Davidson was arrested by undercover detectives on charges of drug dealing and taken to NYPD's 106th precinct in Ozone Park, Queens, where he was beaten and tortured with a stun gun and threatened with torture on his genitals into making a false confession. On May 3, 1986, Sgt. Richard Pike, Jeffrey Gilbert and Loren MacLary were each convicted of assault and were sentenced to four to six years.
In December 1986, 11 NYPD officers were arrested from the 77th Precinct station house in the first major instance of corruption after the Knapp Commission. The investigation came to be known as the "Buddy Boys" case. The officers, "who knocked down doors, stole money and drugs from drug dealers and resold the stolen drugs," also "ran extortion operations within the precinct," according to a corruption timeline prepared by The New York Times. Eventually, 13 officers were indicted, and all of the nearly 200 officers at the 77th Precinct station house had to be transferred to other Brooklyn precincts, except for 1 union delegate. A special state prosecutor, Charles Hynes, found later to be corrupt himself, had to present evidence to a special grand jury in the corruption investigation
In May 1992, five current and one retired NYPD officers were arrested and charged with trafficking drugs from Brooklyn into Long Island. Two of the officers were partners at the 75th Precinct, whilst the other officers were from the 73rd Precinct. Prosecutors alleged that one of the officers arrested, Michael Dowd, knew when he was under surveillance and may have benefited from tips from department investigators. How Dowd may have managed, for some time, to evade investigation became a subject of inquiry by the Mollen Commission.[106] Officer Kenny Eurell, who also was one of the officers arrested at the same time as Dowd, tape-recorded Dowd plotting an elaborate plan to skip bail. His bail was revoked and later Dowd was convicted of racketeering and conspiracy to distribute narcotics and served 12 years in prison.[107] In 2014, a documentary was released, The Seven Five, detailing Michael Dowd's career with the NYPD
On August 9, 1997, NYPD Officer Justin Volpe in Brooklyn sodomized Abner Louima with a broken broom handle in a 70th Precinct bathroom after lying about Abner attacking him and arresting him. Officer Volpe eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. Other officers were also implicated and convicted on charges stemming from the initial cover-up.
On February 4, 1999, four plainclothes NYPD officers assigned to the Street Crime Unit in the Bronx fired 41 gunshots at Amadou Diallo, killing him instantly. Diallo, whom the officers mistook for a since-convicted rapist, was later found to be unarmed.
In 2006, Dennis Kim and Jerry Svoronos, two police officers working out of the 109th Precinct, and Gina Kim and Geeho Chae, brothel operators, were arrested on March 8, 2006, for bribery charges relating to the protection of a brothel located in Flushing, Queens.
In March 2010, the NYCLU released 16 years' worth of reports from the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB). The reports were obtained under a request filed in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act. The documents released consisted of annual IAB reports covering the years from 1993 through 2008. According to analysis by the NYCLU, the number of tips of misconduct or corruption received by IAB more than tripled over the period from 1994 to 2006, but the number of serious misconduct investigations were cut by more than half. IAB was investigating about 15% of tips in 1994; by 2004, IAB was only investigating around 2% of tips, revealing a sharp decrease in internal investigatory oversight. In its press release announcing its release and review of the IAB annual reports, the NYCLU further noted, "The annual IAB reports have become less informative over time, with critical information removed from them over time."
In May 2010, Adrian Schoolcraft, a former NYPD officer, publicized recordings he made in secret while on duty, showing a pattern of corruption and retaliation against him for refusing to cooperate. Officers detained citizens without charges to meet quota and failed to report serious crimes, including rape, to make their department appear to be reducing crime rates. When the NYPD learned that Schoolcraft was privately investigating such corruption, concern for his mental health was used as an excuse for armed officers to kidnap and imprison him in a hospital.
On June 7, 2011, ex-NYPD transit officer Jorge Arbaje-Diaz was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after being convicted of kidnapping, robbing and torturing drug dealers while on the force in 2008. Arbaje-Diaz was found guilty of stealing more than 1,600 pounds of cocaine and $4 million in cash.
In October 2011, five current NYPD police officers and three retired police officers were arrested and charged with trafficking guns into New York state in exchange for thousands of dollars in cash. Six of those implicated worked, or once worked, at the 68th Precinct
Occupy Wall Street activist Michael Premo was arrested on December 17, 2011 and charged with assaulting an officer. Prosecutors argued and the arresting officer gave sworn testimony that Premo "charged the police like a linebacker, taking out a lieutenant and resisting arrest so forcefully that he fractured an officer's bone." The defense located a video that was taken by freelancer Jon Gerberg which contradicted the sworn testimony, instead showing officers "tackling [Premo] as he attempted to get back on his feet". Prosecutors claimed no video of Premo's arrest existed, yet the Gerberg video clearly showed an NYPD officer also filming Premo's arrest. Nick Pinto of Village Voice wrote that "information provided by the NYPD in the trial was fabricated to such a degree that the allegations made by the police officers have turned out to be quite literally the opposite of what actually happened.
On September 29, 2013, motorcyclists participated in a rally called "Hollywood's Block Party" on New York City's Henry Hudson Parkway. One of the bikers pulled in front of Alexian Lien and slowed dramatically, "brake checking". Lien stopped his vehicle and was quickly surrounded by bikers. Lien accelerated to escape and struck one of the bikers, critically injuring him. A chase ensued, ending in Lien being pulled from his vehicle and beaten. The attack was caught on video and the NYPD faced criticism when some of the bikers involved in the chase and attack were identified as off-duty New York City police officers. Ten-year veteran and undercover detective Wojciech Braszczok surrendered to authorities and was arrested on October 8. An undercover narcotics detective has been identified by the press as being present but not participating in the assault. Sources have reported a total of five off-duty officers were originally present on the West Side Highway, and that at least two saw the assault.
On two different occasions in 2018, officer Kyle Erickson, of the 120th Precinct, was caught on his own bodycam planting marijuana in cars during a traffic stop after finding nothing in a search. Both times, after planting the marijuana, Erickson asked fellow officer Elmer Pastran if they are "good", suggesting that Pastran was fully complicit. The man arrested in the first incident, Lasou Kuyateh, began proceedings in late 2019 to sue the city of New York for $1 million. His marijuana charge had been dropped abruptly at a pretrial hearing because of the video, and prosecutors encouraged Erickson to get a lawyer.
In October 2021, off-duty police officer Yvonne Wu broke into the home of her ex-girlfriend, Jenny Li, shooting her and her partner, Jamie Liang, with an NYPD-issued Glock-19 pistol, killing Liang and injuring Li.
A video of a crowd of protesters clashing with the NYPD attracted attention on May 30, 2020, showing police vehicles accelerating into a crowd of people.
In October 2021, off-duty police officer Yvonne Wu broke into the home of her ex-girlfriend, Jenny Li, shooting her and her partner, Jamie Liang, with an NYPD-issued Glock-19 pistol, killing Liang and injuring Li.
A video of a crowd of protesters clashing with the NYPD attracted attention on May 30, 2020, showing police vehicles accelerating into a crowd of people.
A report from Capital New York reported that 85 IP addresses belonging to the New York Police Department had made changes to Wikipedia pages about NYPD misconduct and also to articles about people killed in police interventions
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if thousands of NYPD cops aren’t needed for for crime on funeral day, doesn’t that mean they aren’t needed ANY day?
based on the known size and capacity of Hall H at the San Diego convention center, I'm guessing this street has about 8 thousand cops standing on it.
Friday, August 18, 2023
an innocent man wrongfully convicted in New York is finally out of prison after 26 years, and suing the NYPD officers that clearly framed him, hid evidence that he was innocent, and lost other evidence that would have cleared him.
The case joins a growing group of lawsuits filed against NYPD officers involved in wrongful conviction cases from the 1990s, when a mayoral commission uncovered rampant corruption and misconduct within the NYPD as crime reached record levels in the city. Last year, three of the four most expensive payouts for NYPD-related lawsuits — totaling $35.5 million — went to men who spent decades in prison for convictions from the 1990s that were later vacated.
Peets’ lawsuit paints a similar picture of officers who his lawsuit claims used shoddy tactics to solve an attempted murder of police and civilians, even if it meant convicting the wrong person. It also criticizes the department’s evidence preservation practices, which recently came under scrutiny after a fire severely damaged a department’s warehouse, destroying scores of materials that experts worry could make it harder to reexamine other potentially wrongful convictions.
Peets’ lawsuit paints a similar picture of officers who his lawsuit claims used shoddy tactics to solve an attempted murder of police and civilians, even if it meant convicting the wrong person. It also criticizes the department’s evidence preservation practices, which recently came under scrutiny after a fire severely damaged a department’s warehouse, destroying scores of materials that experts worry could make it harder to reexamine other potentially wrongful convictions.
Friday, July 21, 2023
Just when you thought NYPD wasn't completely ignorant, this happens:
A former Staten Island NYPD sergeant who pleaded guilty last year to using a fake license plate to avoid toll fares pleaded guilty to a second, unrelated crime: beating a man detained inside a holding cell last year, according to court records.
Adrian Dejesus, 38, pleaded guilty to official misconduct, second-degree falsifying business records and third-degree attempted assault in Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday. He's only been mandated to take anger management classes and resign
Adrian Dejesus, 38, pleaded guilty to official misconduct, second-degree falsifying business records and third-degree attempted assault in Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday. He's only been mandated to take anger management classes and resign
Dejesus, who joined the department in 2007, was previously charged in Richmond County with possession of a forged instrument and falsifying business records for allegedly making a false report to the state Department of Motor Vehicles that his license plate had been stolen and then putting a fake paper plate on his car.
Andrew Crawford, a spokesperson for the Richmond County DA's office, said Dejesus pleaded guilty to a Class E felony that would later be bumped down to a Class A misdemeanor in that case if he completed 100 hours of community service and left the department. Crawford said he has completed both requirements.
Andrew Crawford, a spokesperson for the Richmond County DA's office, said Dejesus pleaded guilty to a Class E felony that would later be bumped down to a Class A misdemeanor in that case if he completed 100 hours of community service and left the department. Crawford said he has completed both requirements.
Gothamist previously reported that Dejesus was suspended 25 days without pay for violating NYPD policy when he used sick days to go on vacation in Puerto Rico and then skipped a department interview related to the case. He was also disciplined several times for missing court appearances, according to a 2020 disclosure letter from the Richmond County DA’s office posted on the Legal Aid Society’s Law Enforcement Lookup database. In 2012, Dejesus pleaded guilty to filling out an inaccurate property clerk invoice, according to the letter.
Thursday, July 13, 2023
NYPD seems to be aware it's doing a terrible job, but, unwilling to be transparent, and get more than it's current (and past) amount of criticism, probably because there is no way to improve the professionalism of those with a badge (Professionalism is 1/3rd of their motto on every NYPD vehicle door)
but there is a way to get around the NYPD silent treatment concerning what the police do, and when.
A team of researchers from Cornell Tech analyzed nearly 25 million dashboard camera photos from drivers for rideshare services — like Uber and Lyft — to identify where police cars are deployed in New York City.
The photos themselves came from Nexar, a dashcam company that sells to rideshare drivers. The company made the photographs available to researchers in 2020, and the images in question were taken throughout the five boroughs between March 4 and Nov. 15 of that year.
The team identified some limitations of their work. Their approach, for example, only looks at city street images, meaning that police officers in subway stations can’t be monitored.
Monitor their every move. The NYPD refuses to make the dispatched locations public info, on their own, without a court order.
But thanks to tech, and a lot of it, everywhere the NYPD vehicles go, is recorded, legally, by dash cams.
So, fuck you NYPD Chief Maddrey. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/nyregion/nypd-police-commissioner-sewell-maddrey.html The info is out there, and there's nothing you can do about it.
The photos themselves came from Nexar, a dashcam company that sells to rideshare drivers. The company made the photographs available to researchers in 2020, and the images in question were taken throughout the five boroughs between March 4 and Nov. 15 of that year.
The team identified some limitations of their work. Their approach, for example, only looks at city street images, meaning that police officers in subway stations can’t be monitored.
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
very interesting development in evading police, it's called a "Ghost Car" and it's simply fake license plates... results? Incredibly, they are outside the ability of the police to auto ticket, robo photograph, toll roll tax, etc.
“Any vehicle bearing one of these fraudulent plates instantly becomes undetectable to nearly every aspect of street-level enforcement, from tolls to speed and red light cameras and even parking enforcement,” said NYPD Transportation deputy chief Michael Pilecki. “They become ghost cars to the system and evade enforcement on a widespread scale.”
NYPD is cracking down on drivers with illegal plates, even if police can’t always tow their cars off the road. NYPD has issued more 130,000 summonses for illegal or defaced license plates, and arrested more than 1,700 people for driving ghost cars.
NYPD only has information on temporary license plates from 10 states, which makes it difficult to tell whether or not a paper license plate is authentic. The fake plates cost New York City millions in uncollected tickets and tolls
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
some 74 years old guy from Brooklyn, with a vendetta against NYC Queens police, went a bit wild. He knifed all the tires on 7 of their patrol cars.
Authorities say that at approximately 7 a.m. on Feb. 24, 74-year-old Jose Patino, of Gates Avenue in Brooklyn, allegedly approached seven NYPD vehicles parked near the precinct, located at 68-40 Austin St., and punctured their tires.
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