NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A ticket-fixing scandal has now ignited a virtual civil war in the NYPD. The accused allegedly fixed tickets for family and friends, but the investigation has broadened to include other kinds of alleged corruption, CBS 2′s Pablo Guzman reported.
“They would either remove the actual ticket — the property of NYPD — from the precinct or they would alter the ticket in a manner to cause it to be dismissible,” Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson said.
“Those actions are crimes under the law and can’t be glossed over as courtesies or as part of an acceptable culture — they are not. Those who try to rationalize it are kidding themselves,” Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
No one expected the turnout Friday featuring 1,000 cops outside the courthouse and another 400 inside, many of whom chanted “Ray Kelly hypocrite.” Only about 100 could fit in the courtroom, so the rest were in the hallway outside.
And there it is. The other “1%.”
1% of The US population of 312,520,000?
Roughly 3,125,200.
And I do mean “roughly.”
Locked and loaded, and madder than hell.
Know thine enemy.
They know who you are.
Bet on it.
AG
Discrimination on the basis of one’s national origin (Arab) or religion (Muslim)—sounds like a potential case for the 1964 Civil Rights Act!
Richard Hofstadter would have a field day with that dude.
These old lyrics from the Lizard King popped into my head after just a few paragraphs of Hofstader’s piece:
“His brain is squirmin’ like a toad”
It seems an apt description of the Texan’s personality type. Same as it ever was.
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Of course, the media have broad coverage of overtime costs NYPD due to the OWS hippies. In another affaire, 1000 cops showed up in support of …
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."