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Busted: NYPD drug planting

Oct 13, 2011#1

GasBandit

What we all knew happened, has been admitted under oath. NYPD's planting of drugs on suspects to meet "drug bust quotas" is pretty much rampant.

Corruption Scandal of the Day: A former NYPD narcotics detective has admitted in court that the practice of planting drugs on innocent civilians to meet quotas was a pretty common one.
Stephen Anderson, under a cooperation agreement, testified at the corruption trial of Brooklyn South narcotics Detective Jason Arbeeny that he had helped police officer Henry Tavarez meet his buy-and-bust numbers by fabricating cocaine possession charges against four men arrested in a Queens bar in 2008.

“Tavarez was worried about getting sent back [to patrol] and, you know, the supervisors getting on his case,” Anderson told the court. “I had decided to give him [Tavarez] the drugs to help him out so that he could say he had a buy.”

Justice Gustin Reichbach asked Anderson if he observed this practice — known as “flaking” — taking place “with some frequency,” to which he replied “yes, multiple times.”
“It was something I was seeing a lot of, whether it was from supervisors or undercovers and even investigators,” Anderson said.

Questioned about any concern he had for his victims, Anderson responded that there was very little reflection going on at the time. “It’s almost like you have no emotion with it, that they attach the bodies to it, they’re going to be out of jail tomorrow anyway; nothing is going to happen to them anyway.”

Anderson and Taverez’s scheme was exposed when security cameras caught them framing Jose Colon and his brother Maximo. New York paid the siblings $300,000 in a false arrest suit settlement.

Oct 13, 2011#2

Tress

Well that's pretty horrific.

Oct 13, 2011#3

Chibibar

quotas on Drug buy?? I can understand quotas on traffic tickets like speeding, driving on HOV lane with 1 person, illegal turns and stuff like that, but quotas on drug buy?

Oct 13, 2011#4

GasBandit

I'm not even a fan of traffic ticket quotas. All it is is a blatant attempt to turn law enforcement into a revenue stream, with public safety a thin pretense.

Oct 13, 2011#5

Charlie Don't Surf

Fuck the police.

and Fuck the war on drugs.

Oct 13, 2011#6

GasBandit

Charlie Don't Surf said:
Fuck the war on drugs.

Mah brutha by anotha motha.

Oct 13, 2011#7

Necronic

It's not for money. It's for political PR.

Citizens to Mayor: "Crime is too high!"
Mayor to Citizens: "I promise to bring down crime by 20%!"
Mayor to Police Chief: "You need to increase your arrests and decrease crime!"
Police Chief to Captains/Seargents: "I want these stats DOWN!"
Seargents to Police officers: "Ok this rape is now coded as an assault."

Oct 13, 2011#8

AshburnerX

Honestly, the only thing that TRULY decreases crime is to put more cops on the streets and to be more active in patrolling certain areas. Unfortunately, officers are one of the most expensive things in a precinct's budget and nobody wants to pay for them...

But yes, it's also for the money. Police departments make huge sums selling assets seized in the commission of a crime.

Oct 20, 2011#9

@Li3n

Whoever invented quotas for crime busting was either an idiot or a troll...

Oct 20, 2011#10

fade

I thought quotas were a myth, and I'm married to a cop. The only thing I can find on google concerning quotas for traffic tickets is from LAPD. In fact, there are cop jokes out there that make fun of the public's theory that there are quotas, like "Quota? No ma'am, I can write as many tickets as I want." I know my wife's department has no quotas, and neither does TX state police (and they're the guys who do most of the traffic stops).
Added at: 14:02
"Fuck the police" is such an annoying phrase. Sure. Paint the 99% who do their jobs the way the public wants them to with the same brush you paint the 1% who are corrupt or just plain bad.

Oct 20, 2011#11

@Li3n

fade said:
I'm married to a cop.

"Fuck the police"

You just don't want to share...

fade said:
Paint the 99% who do their jobs the way the public wants them to with the same brush you paint the 1% who are corrupt or just plain bad.

Somehow i doubt that's the percentages (and i know for a fact over here you should flip those), but yeah, police is needed.

Oct 20, 2011#12

SpecialKO

Necronic said:
It's not for money. It's for political PR.

I actually doubt it in this case. Despite some recent job approval losses, Bloomberg has always been extremely strong politically, and crime in NYC per capita is very low for a city. The political gain for something like this at this point would be so small, it just wouldn't be worth the trouble (the bullshit about raising PATH and tunnel fares by 100% in a month and then *only* raising it by 25% with the additional 75% being promised inside 2 years, on the other hand...).

I think it's a revenue stream ploy.

Oct 20, 2011#13

Necronic

I'm still trying to figure out why he hired Lou Ferigno as his attorney.

Oct 20, 2011#14

AshburnerX

Necronic said:
I'm still trying to figure out why he hired Lou Ferigno as his attorney.

Yeah... Jennifer's the attorney, not Bruce.

Oct 20, 2011#15

PatrThom

SpecialKO said:
I think it's a revenue stream ploy.

No, That would be the abuse of civil forfeiture thing.

--Patrick

Oct 21, 2011#16

AshburnerX

PatrThom said:
No, That would be the abuse of civil forfeiture thing.

--Patrick

The civil forfeiture ploy is systematically abused in every department in the country. Why do you think they don't want to give up the war on drugs?

Oct 21, 2011#17

PatrThom

They don't want to give up the war on drugs because then they will lose their federal funding, which would mean forcing more civil forfeiture in order to make ends meet.

--Patrick

Oct 21, 2011#18

Hailey Knight

PatrThom said:
They don't want to give up the war on drugs because then they will lose their federal funding, which would mean forcing more civil forfeiture in order to make ends meet.

--Patrick

Which is then more difficult to acquire due to lack of drug busts.

Oct 23, 2011#19

PotaDOS

I was told before that traffic ticket quotas are quite illegal in many places (citation needed). They get away with it by using a different term.

"Traffic plan."

Oct 25, 2011#20

Officer_Charon

This kind of shit pisses me off, something serious.

Oct 25, 2011#21

Chibibar

Officer_Charon said:
This kind of shit pisses me off, something serious.

I feel ya. A close friend of mine is trying to be a cop. Action of a few tend to really spoil the whole outlook on cops

Oct 25, 2011#22

GasBandit

Well, on the bright side, at least 4 out of 12 gun smugglers are NOT NYPD.

Oct 27, 2011#23

GasBandit

aaaand some more NYPD shennanigans.

This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: A Brooklyn woman who was struck by a stray bullet says she was unlawfully detained for five days by police officers who claimed she was lying about the incident.

35-year-old Takesha Griffin was allegedly handcuffed to a bench and, later, put in a dirty holding cell at the 73rd Precinct, while officers attempted to compel a false confession. “They wanted me to lie,” Griffin told the Daily News. “It was like The Twilight Zone.”

The Brownsville resident reported that she was hit in her thigh by a stray bullet after returning home from a club with a male friend. The same friend drove Griffin to the Hospital, where staff alerted the police after realizing the source of the wound.

Griffin, who was taken away by police while still in her hospital scrubs, says she was held at the Brownsville police station from September 3rd through September 8th, even though, by law, she was entitled to a court appearance within 24 hours.

While in custody, Griffin claims she was forced to urinate on herself after no one would take her to the restroom, and says she was made fun of when she complained about receiving a McDonald’s hamburger every day in lieu of a decent meal.

“This is something that would happen in a fascist state, not in America,” says her lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein.

The police claimed that Griffin was shot during a lovers’ spat with her friend; a background check also brought up a warrant for her arrest issued after Griffin allegedly failed to heed a disorderly conduct summons. Griffin pointed out to police officers that her friend was gay — they were returning from a gay club — and the warrant was later shown to be a clerical error.

Griffin and Rubenstein plan to sue the city for $5 million.

If the truth turns out to be anything even remotely approximating that, I hope she gets every penny.

Oct 27, 2011#24

Tress

GasBandit said:
If the truth turns out to be anything even remotely approximating that, I hope she gets every penny.

I wholeheartedly agree. That is despicable.

Oct 27, 2011#25

Hailey Knight

GasBandit said:
aaaand some more NYPD shennanigans.

If the truth turns out to be anything even remotely approximating that, I hope she gets every penny.

Agreed.

Oct 27, 2011#26

SpecialKO

What the fuck.... :Leyla:

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