New York City on Tuesday reached a $175,000 settlement with a Staten Island police officer who said he had been a victim of retaliation for giving traffic tickets to people with connections to the upper echelons of the Police Department.
The officer, Mathew Bianchi, filed a lawsuit against the city last May. The suit said that he had been transferred out of his precinct’s traffic unit after Jeffrey Maddrey, then the chief of patrol and now the department’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, asked that he be punished. Officer Bianchi had issued a ticket to a woman with whom Chief Maddrey was said to be friends, according to the suit.
“This settlement is a vindication for our client, allowing him to close this chapter and continue his service with the N.Y.P.D.,” John Scola, Officer Bianchi’s lawyer, said on Tuesday. “We hope that Officer Bianchi’s courage and this decisive outcome will inspire other officers to come forward as whistle-blowers.”
He’s still a cop though, right? So he’s learned nothing.
The cop is in the right, this time. What was he supposed to learn?
He was supposed to learn ACAB.
He’s learned that the cop who got wronged can pick up $175k in taxpayer money while the cop who engaged in the corruption gets to keep climbing the seniority ladder to do this shit again.
Everybody wins!
I love that everyone is acting like this is the and of the story.
My dude still works at NYPD. This dude’s family’s life will be a living hell until he moves out of the area.
do you want all the decent cops to quit?
Yes. It would make it easier to burn the jackboots down and start fresh.
Riiiiight, is that before or after Dread/robocop arc?
I bet you believe in civil coups being realistic too?
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What decent cops?
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What corruption has he fought that hasn’t affected him personally?
Take a break. It must be tiring being this deliberately obtuse.
Insulting me doesn’t change the fact that he only supposedly fought the corruption when he got demoted. Or do you think that’s the only corruption he ever witnessed as a cop in Staten Island?
According to the post description, he was punished AFTER he ticketed the higher ranking cop’s friend. Where did you pick up the being punished before part?
That doesnt affect what they said. Ticketing a cops friend wasnt fighting corruption, only fighting retaliation for it is
Did you read the article?
In my experience, he doesn’t read anything beyond the comment he’s replying to.
There’s your failing.
I’m not saying he did or did not see whatever supposed corruption you’re saying is going on.
However, you’re trotting out the usual ACAB trope when you have the same level of knowledge as anyone else - that is to say, fuck all. There’s little to support your assertion of a “fact” here at all.
I’m not arsed one way or another whether you like cops or not, but at least make your arguments make sense.
The corruption of those courtesy cards. For which he got retaliated against. And that he brought a lawsuit over, which brings the corruption to light.
I’d say that’s fighting corruption from the inside.
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Why should we assume he ever did anything other than what we’re told he did. He fought and fixed something because he was personally punished by it.
The cops that fight the corruption that doesn’t affect them don’t stay cops for long.
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Wtf, Squid. You are being unusually unreasonable right now, man.
And Maddry is still in charge.