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3 N.Y.P.D. Commanders Are Arrested on Corruption Charges:
Three New York Police Department commanders, including a deputy chief, were arrested early Monday, along with a Brooklyn businessman, on federal corruption charges stemming from one of several continuing investigations into Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign fund-raising, according to court papers.
The arrests, of a deputy chief, a deputy inspector and a sergeant, were one of the most significant roundups of police supervisors in the recent history of the department. In striking the top ranks, the case is a particular blow to the storied — and sometimes sullied — reputation of the nation's largest municipal police force.
The court papers in the case detail lavish gifts the two senior police officials are accused of receiving in exchange for taking official action, including expensive meals, free overseas and domestic trips, and the referral of business to a security company associated with one of the officials. The deputy inspector was also accused of receiving a trip on a private jet to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl weekend in 2013, and was said to be accompanied by a prostitute.
Also at Reuters, NY Daily News, and DNAinfo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 21 2016, @04:19PM
There is a group that reports to the DA in many counties called the Internal Affairs Bureau, designated for investigating police corruption, and officer involved shootings.
In many places, reporting things to Internal Affairs will get you no where. Sometimes IAB serves as detector for dissidents and those about to expose corruption. There's a significant risk that reporting corruption only to IAB may get you killed. [fresnopeoplesmedia.com]
The truth is that politics plays a huge role in all of this. When corruption is allowed to surface and be dealt with it is an attack by one political group against another to gain more power and influence. Demonstrating the power to break ranks and attack high level posts without being shunned by the troops is a show of power and threat to others who would depose you. Even the FBI is this way. In the past FBI spied on, harassed and covertly attacked left wing activists. [wikipedia.org] Today the left is in power, and FBI now disrupts, degrades and destroys right wing activism instead.
Your rulers like to present a unified front among authority figures, but in reality there are warring factions. Even among NSA, CIA, DHS, FBI, DoD, and etc. Alphabet soup there has been a heated battle to gain dominance over national security intelligence, as this is key to all other political maneuvering. Knowledge is power. Get some.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Tuesday June 21 2016, @11:07PM
Yes. People viewed as whistleblowers are rarely appreciated until long after the fact, but are generally seen as traitors or 'rats'.
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge