Angry NY cops jeer the court for indicting 16 cops for ticket fixing for friends & others

[Liberal_in_LA]

Officers Jeer as 16 Colleagues Are Arraigned in Ticket-Fixing Investigation



A three-year investigation into the police’s habit of fixing traffic and parking tickets in the Bronx ended in the unsealing of indictments on Friday and a stunning display of vitriol by hundreds of off-duty officers, who converged on the courthouse to applaud their accused colleagues and denounce their prosecution.


As 16 police officers were arraigned at State Supreme Court in the Bronx, incensed colleagues organized by their union cursed and taunted prosecutors and investigators, chanting, “Down with the D.A.” and “Ray Kelly, hypocrite.”

As the defendants emerged from their morning court appearance, a swarm of officers formed a cordon in the hallway and clapped as they picked their way to the elevators. Members of the news media were prevented by court officers from walking down the hallway where more than 100 off-duty police officers had gathered outside the courtroom.

The assembled police officers blocked cameras from filming their colleagues, in one instance grabbing lenses and shoving television camera operators backward.

The unsealed indictments contained more than 1,600 criminal counts, the bulk of them misdemeanors having to do with making tickets disappear — in common parlance — as favors for friends, relatives and others with clout. But they also outlined more serious crimes, related both to ticket-fixing and drugs, grand larceny and unrelated corruption. Four of the officers were charged with helping a man get away with assault.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/nyregion/officers-unleash-anger-at-ticket-fixing-arraignments-in-the-bronx.html?_r=1&hpw

[JVS]

1. Fuck those corrupt shitheads.

[Kaleko]

11. An openly corrupt police department in the financial capital of the world...

We're looking at it.

Jaw-dropping, if we weren't so used to it.

[frylock]

2. knr

[drdtroit]

3. Is there any doubt how deep the psychosis is in American "law enforcement"? n/t

[a simple pattern]

4. Wow look at the signs

"Just following orders," indeed

[Prometheus Bound]

19. "Just following orders." That's pretty interesting.

It would be nice if they'd put specific names of NYPD top brass who gave those orders on those signs.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Amazing arrogance from ultra scum

nt

[chollybocker]

6. Thuggiest. Union Meeting. Ever.

Where the brotherhood supercedes the rule of law. Who are these people???

[AzDar]

7. They reserve the right to break the law at will, apparently.

Culture of corruption... :puke:

[ellisonz]

8. Robber Pigs!

:nopity:

[Historic NY]

9. There used to be a thing called honor.

:-( its one thing to fix a ticket but it another to fix a ticket for a price or reward. They don't get it....its become a job that owes them something.

[GodlessBiker]

10. They are clueless.

[Pigheaded]

12. Sever the pigs

I can not even believe this union.
This looks BAD

PH

[meow2u3]

13. Are cops trying to tamper with the jury?

It sure seems like it.

[meow2u3]

14. self-delete--dupe

[Lars39]

15. I'd be studying that crowd for sure....every single cop there

just revealed that they cannot be trusted to tell the truth on the stand. They need immediate dismissal for this crap.

[miyazaki]

16. clean as a hounds tooth.

[provis99]

17. the whole NYPD should be charged under the RICO statutes.

It is just as much an organized crime gang as the Mafia is.

[Dawson Leery]

18. And these thugs want our help to protect their benefits?

All the while they are arresting OWS protesters who are fighting for their rights? :wtf:

Filthy swine indeed. :puke:

[Tsiyu]

20. Nobody pepper-sprayed these thugs?

These NYPD shown in the OP are no more than anarchists, who don't seem to believe in law and order.

Hmmmmmm...seems they'll protest about some things...like their love affair with corruption.

Well, they should be kettled and pepper-sprayed, using their own logic....and treating some of them the way they treat others....