Forum Post: Police Discontent and Corruption in NYC
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 28, 2011, 10:44 p.m. EST by FHampton
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"Jose R. Ramos, an officer in the 40th Precinct whose suspicious behavior spawned the protracted investigation, was accused of two dozen crimes, including attempted robbery, attempted grand larceny, transporting what he thought was heroin for drug dealers and revealing the identity of a confidential informant.
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"...some officers chanted 'E.B.T.' at people lined up at a benefits center across the street, referring to electronic benefit transfer, the method by which welfare checks are distributed."
"It's more than ticket-fixing chatter investigators caught on their wiretaps: 'Cops are also heard talking trash about the people they're paid to protect,' sources said.
"The wiretap recordings at the heart of the probe captured conversations rife with racist and inflammatory remarks..."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/09/26/2011-09-26_cops_racist_talk_caught_on_tixfix_wiretaps.html
"The woman had described snippets of a harrowing night in which the officers, called to help her because she was extremely intoxicated, instead abused her."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/nyregion/two-new-york-city-police-officers-acquitted-of-rape.html
"An off-duty New York City police officer was arrested in Upper Manhattan on Friday after he grabbed a woman who was on her way to work, showed her he had a gun and raped her in the backyard of a nearby building..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/20/nyregion/off-duty-new-york-city-police-officer-charged-with-rape.html
"The deputy grabbed Nee, pushed him against a wall, searched him and lectured him about terrorism, the lawsuit alleges. He also threatened to forward Nee's name to counterterrorism so it could be added to an FBI 'hit list'"
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/aclu-sues-.html
"Readers will already be familiar with the Veteran For Peace who was critically injured by a police projectile shot at his skull. Police, in their marauding rampage, fired large metal canisters, bean bags and rubber bullets. They used chemical weapons and there is even report of sound weaponry turned on US citizens exercising their first amendment rights. Further, once the veteran had been critically injured by reckless intentional police violence, a crowd of volunteers came to his aid only to be assaulted by an exploding flash grenade shot directly into their group."
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/28/police-can-also-be-traitors/