- b.c.,
No this was someone else, the person I am talking about worked in the NYPD. I will try and look it up.
Orta got railroaded though for sure and the police were wrong to do that to him. I read that they stood outside his apt and talked to everyone who went in and out of the house. Just because he caught the NYPD with their pants down
Agreed, the police always try to minimize the things they do wrong
They underreport crime statistics as well. There was a well known story in NYC and they tried to have the guy committed to shut him up but they guy took the documentation and fought back, good for him.
The NYPD also tried to make his life a living hell by denying him unemployment. I am not sure how that ended up.
The sad truth of it is that almost everything that we know about police misconduct has come about from the reporting and/or documentation provided by some third party who was on the scene. I, for the life of me, don't know of a SINGLE INSTANCE where a police force, on their own volition, went before the public and said "Our officer acted inappropriately in this instance and here is what we've done." To the best of my knowledge it's ALWAYS been after someone else made the incident public.
Take the Georgia officers who assaulted Hollins after a routine traffic stop. Even after the first video was publicized showing ex-Officer McDonald running up and kicking Hollins in the face, the department initially had defended the officer for handling the the arrest appropriately, as discussed below. And the other, Bongiovanni, had 12 SUSTAINED complaints against him:
KING: Fired Georgia cops must be arrested, tried and convicted - NY Daily News