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It would be more a rhetorical, rabble-rouser comment than one seeking facts.
I realize that, but it's actually relevant to the issue. One of the contentions, amongst other piles of BS, that supports paying cops on LI like corporate exectutives, is that it will keep them from being corrupt.
As many people know, "professional courtesy" is SOP for cops, regardless of how much they make. It's basically corruption, and it starts with the whole PBA card get out of jail free card nonsense, and works it's way up from there to what the OP posted.
It would be more a rhetorical, rabble-rouser comment than one seeking facts.
So we should encourage a police force riddled by corruption and mismanagement?
You read the paper at all lately? It's one scandal after another; the crime lab, the Bird case, the cop pointing his pistol at a bartender, the 2 cops who shot up a taxicab, this, the pension payouts bordering on pillage, etc.
How much do you want to bet that if you start protesting the police corruption and demand action, and take a loud vocal possition of support for closing precincts you soon would have cop cars parked outside you house all the time, and an escort whenever you drive somewhere.
How much do you want to bet that if you start protesting the police corruption and demand action, and take a loud vocal possition of support for closing precincts you soon would have cop cars parked outside you house all the time, and an escort whenever you drive somewhere.
Yeah just like that Nassau legislator's wife who was pulled over and warned "Your husband is no friend of ours".
That sounds like something out of a 3rd world banana republic, a fascist, or Communist nation .... it is not something that is acceptable here in the United States.
You're surprised by this? Where is the ex-NYC Police Commissioner right now (Bernard Kerik)? That's right, sitting in JAIL!
We need to have complete and total civilian oversight of the Nassau County Police Department, and that oversight board should have the power to remove anyone within the department who behaves in a criminal manner. As a person who was raised by an NYC police officer I can tell you firsthand that they are not the heroes they portray themselves as. Many of them are just as dirty as the people they arrest. Being a cop in many ways puts you above suspicion, and every cops knows this. If you wanna commit crime there's no better way to do it successfully than to be a law enforcement insider.
Policeman need to be viewed with an eye of suspicion. They need to be scrutinized 1000 times more than the average person. They know the law and how to successfully circumvent it. These men got caught for this, but I can say with assurance they've done far worse things they haven't been caught for.
You're surprised by this? Where is the ex-NYC Police Commissioner right now (Bernard Kerik)? That's right, sitting in JAIL!
We need to have complete and total civilian oversight of the Nassau County Police Department, and that oversight board should have the power to remove anyone within the department who behaves in a criminal manner. As a person who was raised by an NYC police officer I can tell you firsthand that they are not the heroes they portray themselves as. Many of them are just as dirty as the people they arrest. Being a cop in many ways puts you above suspicion, and every cops knows this. If you wanna commit crime there's no better way to do it successfully than to be a law enforcement insider.
Policeman need to be viewed with an eye of suspicion. They need to be scrutinized 1000 times more than the average person. They know the law and how to successfully circumvent it. These men got caught for this, but I can say with assurance they've done far worse things they haven't been caught for.
No doubt that the whole thing is just one big police conspiracy. First, it's near-death driving experiences (the result of a conspiracy to not enforce traffic laws); then it's the obvious misapplication of disabled veterans' exemption to property taxes (another police conspiracy involving all of the headquarters brass); and finally it's the vast criminal enterprise known as the police department (the ultimate police conspiracy involving all cops everywhere who regularly violate the law with impugnity.) Yup, you nailed it.
Ha Ha, they both retired on Wednesday to keep that 6 figure pension! Too funny. We need kisses. As Al Pacino said, "I like to be kissed when I'm being scr*wed!"
How many times can idiots with cushy gigs blow them over petty acts?! It's part stupidity and part arrogance (more the latter). When will they learn that the APPEARANCE of impropriety is bad enough and the lie/coverup is almost always worse than the original crime?
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