[NYCGP]

We fabricated drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas, former detective testifies

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c...#ixzz1af5Aaq6o

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.

NYPD officials did not respond to a request for comment.

Anderson worked in the Queens and Brooklyn South narcotics squads and was called to the stand at Arbeeny's bench trial to show the illegal conduct wasn't limited to a single squad.

"Did you observe with some frequency this ... practice which is taking someone who was seemingly not guilty of a crime and laying the drugs on them?" Justice Gustin Reichbach asked Anderson.

"Yes, multiple times," he replied.

The judge pressed Anderson on whether he ever gave a thought to the damage he was inflicting on the innocent.

"It was something I was seeing a lot of, whether it was from supervisors or undercovers and even investigators," he said.

"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."

The city paid $300,000 to settle a false arrest suit by Jose Colon and his brother Maximo, who were falsely arrested by Anderson and Tavarez. A surveillance tape inside the bar showed they had been framed.

A federal judge presiding over the suit said the NYPD's plagued by "widespread falsification" by arresting officers.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c...#ixzz1af53kak8

[Wakka]

tavarez is my ex's last name... i wonder if related. Damn dominicans think they can get away with anything.

[infinitekidM2C]

crooked cops are the worst

[E90SoFlo]

Originally Posted by infinitekid2002

cops are the worst

fixed

[Kroy]

Did this news actually surprise anyone?

[Draven]

Originally Posted by Kroy

Did this news actually surprise anyone?

I was thinking the same thing.

[M3Bahn]

How the hell is Stop and Frisk legal, it goes against the bill of rights ?

The Fourth Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

[infinitekidM2C]

The "Stop and Frisk" is legal if there is reasonable suspicion the person has or is about to commit a crime. Routine and unwarranted stops just because they are young and in a high-crime area is illegal. The cops here are being too proactive in their crime-fighting they need to stop that s.

[M3Bahn]

Originally Posted by infinitekid2002

The "Stop and Frisk" is legal if there is reasonable suspicion the person has or is about to commit a crime. Routine and unwarranted stops just because they are young and in a high-crime area is illegal. The cops here are being too proactive in their crime-fighting they need to stop that s.

Watch Out For Those "Furtive Movements"

Hot on the heels of the second part of our series on the 81st Precinct, the New York Times has posted its own take on the explosion in the number of stop and frisks, which climbed to 575,000 last year.
The Voice article reported that precinct supervisors appeared to be telling officers to do stops in part to satisfy the demand for statistics, and to do stops unrelated to some specific crime incident.

The Times article doesn't deal with that issue, but it says a bunch of interesting things, notably, that blacks and latinos were nine times more likely than whites to be stopped, but no more likely to be actually arrested. The tactic yielded 762 guns, or about one-tenth of a percentage point of the total number of stops.

The Times article also reported that the most vague reason for stopping someone--"furtive movement"--was cited in 50 percent of the stops. The least common reason was that a person fit the description of a suspect--which, by the way, was originally the main reason for doing a stop and frisk. Cops used force in 24 percent of the stops.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runnin..._out_for_t.php

[infinitekidM2C]

Yeah...well i'd say someone needs to file a civil rights lawsuit but they already have. http://www.nyclu.org/news/nyclu-laws...cab-passengers

[M3Bahn]

Originally Posted by infinitekid2002

Yeah...well i'd say someone needs to file a civil rights lawsuit but they already have. http://www.nyclu.org/news/nyclu-laws...cab-passengers

That is a different issue dealing with taxi cab passengers.

http://blog.lawinfo.com/2011/05/29/s...xi-passengers/



Judge Declines to Dismiss Case Alleging Racial Profiling by City Police in Street Stops

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/ny...ceed.html?_r=1

[infinitekidM2C]

Originally Posted by M3Bahn

That is a different issue dealing with taxi cab passengers.

http://blog.lawinfo.com/2011/05/29/s...xi-passengers/



Judge Declines to Dismiss Case Alleging Racial Profiling by City Police in Street Stops

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/ny...ceed.html?_r=1

Not exactly the same but it's still part of the illegal "stop and frisk" activity. That more relevant case you posted will settle soon i bet. And that's how it works...they'll stop doing it because it will be too costly to continue that practice.

[Kroy]

Originally Posted by M3Bahn

Watch Out For Those "Furtive Movements"

Hot on the heels of the second part of our series on the 81st Precinct, the New York Times has posted its own take on the explosion in the number of stop and frisks, which climbed to 575,000 last year.
The Voice article reported that precinct supervisors appeared to be telling officers to do stops in part to satisfy the demand for statistics, and to do stops unrelated to some specific crime incident.

The Times article doesn't deal with that issue, but it says a bunch of interesting things, notably, that blacks and latinos were nine times more likely than whites to be stopped, but no more likely to be actually arrested. The tactic yielded 762 guns, or about one-tenth of a percentage point of the total number of stops.

The Times article also reported that the most vague reason for stopping someone--"furtive movement"--was cited in 50 percent of the stops. The least common reason was that a person fit the description of a suspect--which, by the way, was originally the main reason for doing a stop and frisk. Cops used force in 24 percent of the stops.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runnin..._out_for_t.php

The tactic yielded 762 guns, or about one-tenth of a percentage point of the total number of stops.

Cops used force in 24 percent of the stops.

great job boys in blue! making us proud with these stats.
although they didn't mention finding narcotics, i will assume the total figure is not exceeding a 24% arrest rate.

[Kiemyster]

Ive been more than lucky, I get the good cops I guess.... didnt realize how easy it is for me to get fucked by crooked cops... I know a guy who had a highway cop planted weed in his trunk. fucking pigs.

[Los Angeles]

Originally Posted by Kiemyster

Ive been more than lucky, I get the good cops I guess.... didnt realize how easy it is for me to get fucked by crooked cops... I know a guy who had a highway cop planted weed in his trunk. fucking pigs.

Jesus.

[M3Bahn]

Originally Posted by Kroy

great job boys in blue! making us proud with these stats.
although they didn't mention finding narcotics, i will assume the total figure is not exceeding a 24% arrest rate.

Too Little, Too Late: Commissioner Kelly Tells NYPD to End Stop-and-Frisks That Led to Thousands of Bogus Marijuana Arrests

After a decade of unjust marijuana arrests, Raymond Kelly has finally issued a memo to New York City police, ordering them to end the illegal stop-and-frisk procedures that resulted in the arrests of so many young black and Latino youths.

The memo said:

"Questions have been raised about the processing of certain marihuana arrests. At issue is whether the circumstances under which uniformed members of the service recover small amounts of marihuana ... from subjects in a public place support the charge of Criminal Possession of Marihuana in the Fifth Degree."

The stop-and-frisks that helped generate the astounding 536,000 marijuana arrests between 1979 and 2010 violate the intent of the law in two ways. First, stop-and-frisks are legal only to find and confiscate guns. Second, possession of small amounts of marijuana is decriminalized in New York.

But when officers sweep poor neighborhoods to stop-and-frisk colored youths, they often demand kids empty their pockets, or pull the contents out themselves. If weed had been inside, police arrest them for marijuana "in public view," which is not decriminalized, and the consequences of which bar arrestees from receiving federal loans and housing, as well as finding careers. This is all despite the fact that the weed wasn't "in public view" until the cops put it there. Kelly clarified the standards for this type of arrest in the memo.

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews...juana_arrests/

[Kroy]

Think it's ironic the chief needs to issue a memo for his men to stop being scoundrels. It's like saying he acknowledges the fact it's a common practice and kept a blind eye to it until now.

[Kiemyster]

Originally Posted by Los Angeles

Jesus.

whats sad is he was in a silver e46 m3 but didnt speak english too well so the cops wanted to take advantage of him. thankfully he had his girl in the car who was kind of ghetto and fucked them up.... had to go to court on possession charge as well as 3 other tickets.

these situations scare the shit out of me