Bad boys, bad boys...watcha gonna do?

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/secret-documents-revealed-319-nypd-staff-fired-got-slap-wrist/

Quote:REVEALED: Secret documents show 319 NYPD staffers should have been fired for misconduct


In a shocking expose, BuzzFeed gained access hundreds of pages of internal documents that revealed more than 300 staffers of the New York Police Department lied, cheated, stole or even assaulted people while on the job.

The “secret” employment files lists at least 50 staffers for lying on official reports or under oath, and 38 have been found guilty of excessive force by an internal police tribunal, fighting or firing their weapon unnecessarily. That adds to the 57 staffers found guilty for driving under the influence and 71 found guilty of ticket-fixing.

The more severe, however, were Jarrett Dill, who threatened to kill someone, and Robertson Tunis who sexually harassed and touched another officer. At least 24 of those staffers were working in schools, where they used their position to harass students or sold drugs.
Andrew Bailey was found guilty of touching a female student on her thigh and kissing her while she sat in his car. Lester Robinson kissed a woman, removed his shirt and began to remove his pants while sitting in a school parking lot on duty. Juan Garcia was caught selling prescription medication to an undercover officer while off duty.

BuzzFeed explained the police commissioner makes the final decisions on disciplinary actions. They were given “dismissal probation,’ which results in few actual consequences. Officers maintained their jobs at their same salary while on a kind of probation for a year.

The secret documents are exempt from open records by using a state law protecting “personnel records.” The site verified the information with court documents as well as more than 100 calls to NYPD staff as well as visits to officers homes and speaking to prosecutors and defense attorneys. Between 2011 and 2015 at least 777 officers and staff received received dismissal probation and 463 were forced to leave or resigned.

BuzzFeed intends to publish the entire database of documents on the site over the coming weeks, they said. Read the full expose here.

Long read at the link.

More and more we see what was going on behind the scenes.  I can only hope this starts to choke those weeds and things keep getting better.