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Re: NYPD planted drugs to meet arrest quota.
A former NYPD narcotics detective snared in a corruption scandal testified it was common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas.
The bombshell testimony from Stephen Anderson is the first public account of the twisted culture behind the false arrests in the Brooklyn South and Queens narc squads, which led to the arrests of eight cops and a massive shakeup.
Anderson, testifying under a cooperation agreement with prosecutors, was busted for planting cocaine, a practice known as "flaking," on four men in a Queens bar in 2008 to help out fellow cop Henry Tavarez, whose buy-and-bust activity had been low.
"Tavarez was ... was worried about getting sent back [to patrol] and, you know, the supervisors getting on his case," he recounted at the corruption trial of Brooklyn South narcotics Detective Jason Arbeeny.
"I had decided to give him [Tavarez] the drugs to help him out so that he could say he had a buy," Anderson testified last week in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
He made clear he wasn't about to pass off the two legit arrests he had made in the bar to Tavarez.
"As a detective, you still have a number to reach while you are in the narcotics division," he said.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crim … z1agwGnM9x
Re: NYPD planted drugs to meet arrest quota.
"It's almost like you have no emotion with it, that they attach the bodies to it, they're going to be out of jail tomorrow anyway; nothing is going to happen to them anyway."
Apart from getting fired and struggling to find a new job.
As they say in Texas: "Is that cash you're carrying? That's drug money *seize*."
Re: NYPD planted drugs to meet arrest quota.
Yeah but the problem is that noone with a degree wants to be a cop, for instance, here in Argentina cops come out from the same place than the thieves.
They're poor people with no access to education, well they do have access, the education is free in my country, but maybe they cant afford to live without work so they get into something that doesnt require much off them, and dropout their studies.
Think about it, would you study 4 or 5 years to get a degree so then you can become a cop?
Also, its not a very respected job. When you see a cop you dont think "oh what a standup guy", everytime i see a cop i feel like axl in OTGM.
Re: NYPD planted drugs to meet arrest quota.
I know it usually doesn't go to well when I log in from another planet here, but I've seen some things too over the years. I think OJ was innocent and that his wife was murdered in a satanic ritual. Killing blondes supposedly releases harnessable energy, or so the wackos behind the scenes believe.
