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.”
There are no good apples because good apples routinely get punished, or worse. Its reall easy for group of in cops to explain away how the out cop got shot and died.
Hell the cop they claim got shot by cop city protestors turnd out to have been shot in the back of the head when only other police were behind him and nothing came of that except an excuse to beat up protesters. Cops cause more crime than they solve.
The people who said “it’s just a few bad apples” are shocked when they did not remove the bad apples and now the entire bag is rotten.
I am sure you can back that wild claim with actual stats? That cops cause more crime (I assume you mean committing?) then they solve (I assume you mean investigating?).