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[City of New York] Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association boss Pat Lynch slashed the maximum number of cards that could be issued to current cops from 30 to 20, and to retirees from 20 to 10, sources told The Post.
The cards are often used to wiggle out of minor trouble such as speeding tickets, the theory being that presenting one suggests you know someone in the NYPD.
The rank and file is livid.
“They are treating active members like s–t, and retired members even worse than s–t,” griped an NYPD cop who retired on disability. “All the cops I spoke to were . . . very disappointed they couldn’t hand them out as Christmas gifts.”
Source: NYPost
The cards, issued for various states and agencies -- such as the DEA -- are available for purchase on eBay for around $100.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Dale on Tuesday January 23 2018, @02:26PM (6 children)
The fact that these even seem to exist is counter to everything the police organization is supposed to represent.
There was a story out of Austin I saw today where a cop has finally been fired stemming from an event over two years ago for using excessive force during an arrest and then claiming there was no force used. Apparently this was not the first or second time the issue has arisen with this cop. The article showed some analysis that this cop used force 17.5% of his arrests compared to 10% for others in his academy class. When he is removed from the sample the average dropped to 8% (so he is double everyone else). In addition there were multiple issues of not reporting force use as well. All that and it took two years for them to fire him. Not charge him with anything, not report the possible false resisting arrest charges, just lost his job after multiple years.
(Score: 2) by Dale on Tuesday January 23 2018, @02:29PM
pair of links to mentioned articles:
http://kxan.com/2018/01/22/report-apd-officer-in-breaion-king-case-facing-new-use-of-force-allegation/ [kxan.com] [kxan.com]
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http://www.statesman.com/news/crime--law/officer-breaion-king-case-fired-amid-new-force-complaint/J4FBHpeV3EVsrKN8Fw9EhJ/ [statesman.com] [statesman.com]
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Entropy on Tuesday January 23 2018, @04:19PM (4 children)
Well, speaking of Karma--I guess whoever victimizes your son/daughter should get a nice massage and not even be sent to jail? I'd hate for poor, poor criminals to actually get roughed up for raping someone.
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Tuesday January 23 2018, @04:59PM
(Score: 5, Insightful) by tibman on Tuesday January 23 2018, @05:31PM (1 child)
Dumb. Just arrest and jail so that the courts can decide on the punishment. It's not the job of the police to handle punishment for legitimate reasons. They should just do their damn job and be professional about it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @10:32PM
That's nice in theory, but... Stanford. Prison. Experiment. [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @06:43PM
The courts handle punishment. You also seem to be assuming that that anyone arrested by a cop is a criminal, or that if they are a criminal, then surely they must have victimized someone. Neither is true. Regarding the latter, we have countless unjust laws that create victimless crimes, such as the war on drugs.