An Idealistic Cop, a Forbidden Ticket and a Police Career on the Brink
www.nytimes.com
Mathew Bianchi took routine traffic stops seriously and handed out tickets regardless of people’s connections within the Police Department. He says he was punished for it.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/5827354

The woman didn’t put up much of a fuss, Bianchi said. She didn’t have a courtesy card and she didn’t drop any names. Bianchi wrote her a ticket and sent her on her way.

Two days later, Bianchi was transferred out of the traffic unit and placed back on patrol. In a lawsuit he filed against New York City, he says that a supervisor told him that Jeffrey Maddrey, then the chief of patrol and now the department’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, requested that he be transferred. Maddrey, Bianchi was told, was friends with the woman he had stopped.

  • corsicanguppyEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Obviously cross-posted without the attached comma-splice laden conspiracy-weirdo comments.

    No shit, traffic stops are supposed to be fishing exercises, basically stop and frisk with a pretext of not violating our rights. You’re not supposed to do that to friends, just Them.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      It’s not that far off reality; pretextual stops of minorities in order to search for drugs or cash are a thing in much of the US.