New York, NY – The more they dig, the more the dirt piles up.
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The massive NYPD ticket-fixing investigation has uncovered evidence of far more serious crimes, with cops allegedly making potential felonies go away for fellow officers, it was revealed yesterday.
Shameless cops tried to squash domestic-violence complaints against off-duty colleagues before department brass got wind of the incidents, according to DNAinfo.com.
Some officers also tried to erase other cops’ drunken-driving arrests.
Probers listening to secret wiretaps of at least 30 cops have also learned that the scandal extends to all five boroughs and to the highest levels of the NYPD.
The Web site said there 502 cases under scrutiny: 380 in The Bronx, 55 in Manhattan; 30 in Queens; 30 in Brooklyn and seven on Staten Island.
Read more at DNAinfo.com
Why am I not surprised
I hate to say it but a good percentage of cops would be thugs and criminals if they wern’t cops
Years ago, in order to get appointed to the NYCPD force, if one had one or more parking tickets on their record, they had to account for those. However, in recent years, ex-cons have been hired. Therefore, why should anyone be surprised at this latest outrage?
while this is wrong they felt they where protecting their own
sound familar
The NYPD has been riddled with corruption since it’s inception more than 150 years ago. Some times its very bad, sometimes it improves, but there have always been instances of bribery, drunkeness, and impaired integrity throughout it’s history. Nothing new here.