Greenpoint, NY – A cop who refused to cut a troubled Bronx prosecutor a break told NYPD investigators he was unfairly punished after busting her for DWI, police sources said.
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Officer Elliot Zinstein arrested Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Troiano on the Major Deegan Expressway on Aug. 26.
Troiano tried to wriggle out of trouble, telling Zinstein he should call Nestor Ferreiro, chief of narcotics in the Bronx district attorney’s office.
“He’ll take care of this,” sources quoted her as saying. “He took care of it the last time.”
Zinstein made the arrest, and Troiano was charged with DWI and reckless driving. She refused to take a Breathalyzer test, prompting the suspension of her license.
After the arrest, Zinstein was moved to the 94th Precinct in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Zinstein, an Orthodox Jew, was told that the neighborhood needed more Jewish cops.
He didn’t buy that explanation because the Jewish population is much higher in the neighboring 90th Precinct in Williamsburg, sources said.
Zinstein, 27, was questioned by the Internal Affairs Bureau last month. He was grilled by investigators, and he told them he was unfairly transferred for arresting Troiano. The officer and his lawyer declined to comment. The NYPD wouldn’t respond to Zinstein’s allegations.
If some one was not familiar with NYC the headline would make them think that Greenpoint is a separate place in NYS rather than a section of Brooklyn, NY.
This officer did his job in getting a drunk off of the road and for that he should be commended not punished. I know of way too many stories of well connected or regular members of law enforcement who have done some serious harm to others when driving drunk. There should be zero tollerance for DWI , no exceptions for those with connections or a badge.
This is so untrue. There’s no need for jewish cops more than non-jewish cops. We need more cops, period. I find that jewish cops have it more difficult to be linient to a fellow jew since he’s being looked after.
Would the headline be the same hed someone gotten killed?
zman magazine had a write up about a nypd officer who after blowing the whistle and not going along with the long denied open secret “quotas” required by all nypd officers was labeld disturbed and commited to an insane asylem ward at jamacia hospital by the nypd powers that be until his father came and took him out
this article just shows how corrupt nypd is thruout the system and anyone not playing ball will be denied promotions within the dept at the least harrased and questioned by internal affairs and switched to desk duty or assigned to a less favorable prct
as we see happening here this guy should go after the nypd and aguda and local jewish orginizations should come out in support of him though none will of course as its “politically incorrect” only one who i see helping this guy out is dov hikind who isnt afraid to step up to the plate to help another yid though it may not be politically correct
I’d rather be a cop in Greenpoint rather than the Bronx…sounds more like a commendation—not punishment.
Aah… rehash of the Adrian Schoolcraft saga… He got into trouble for taping police officers giving instructions re: quotas, not falling into line in that regard, got crappy assignments as a result, etc. Send this story to This American Life…
So according to the NYPD if you are a prosecutor then you are aloud to kill people on the road and if you are anybody else you go to jail.
Why does Troiano still have a driver’s license? How many people will she need to kill before she loses her proteksia and they finally take it away? For shame, DA office!
Forgive me for sticking my Israeli nose in here, but I simply do not understand how or why sanctions were taken against Officer Zinstein for doing exactly what the taxpayers of NYC pay him to do.
Is such blatant corruption, as has been described in the above article so common in America?
Troiano tried to wriggle out of trouble, telling Zinstein he should call Nestor Ferreiro, chief of narcotics in the Bronx district attorney’s office.
“He’ll take care of this,” sources quoted her as saying. “He took care of it the last time.
What did she say? He took care of it the last time?
For this alone they should both (Troiano and Nestor Ferreiro, chief of narcotics in the Bronx district attorney’s office) lose their jobs. Thay sure are not serving the public.”
Stories like these make me really sick. Hope this turns into a major lawsuit.
Once the media stir dies down, NYPD and the district attorney’s office will wreak their revenge. He’s bucked the system. He’s out on the streets.
One scenario: He may call for back-up one night, and no one will respond. It’s happened.
Orthodox Jewish cops who requested time off for yom tov get punished. There will be some window dressing, then this will be covered up, and he will be found guilty of some trumped up charge and drummed out of the NYPD, if he is lucky.
after all is said and done over the past 200 years the USA is/ was l the most accomodating to jews as far as garanteeing freedom of religion
and lets not forget we are in golus its little reminders such as this news item that keeps us focus we are just guest here