NYPD narcotic detectives admit they fabricated drug charges to reach quota - Polidicks

[quote][B]Former [URL="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/New+York+City+Police+Department"]NYPD[/URL] narcotics detective snared in a corruption scandal testified it was common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas.[/B]The bombshell testimony from [URL="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Stephen+Anderson"]Stephen Anderson[/URL] is the first public account of the twisted culture behind the false arrests in the [URL="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Brooklyn+(New+York+City)"]Brooklyn[/URL] 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 [URL="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Henry+Tavarez"]Henry Tavarez[/URL], 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 [URL="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Jason+Arbeeny"]Detective Jason Arbeeny[/URL]. "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 [URL="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Brooklyn+Supreme+Court"]Brooklyn Supreme Court[/URL]. He made clear he wasn't about to pass off the two legit arrests he had made in the bar to Tavarez. [B]"As a detective, you still have a number to reach while you are in the narcotics division,"[/B] 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. "[B]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?" [URL="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Gustin+Reichbach"]Justice Gustin Reichbach[/URL] asked Anderson.[/B] [B]"Yes, multiple times," he replied.[/B] 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 [URL="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Jose+Colon"]Jose Colon[/URL] 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.[/quote] this is why quotas are shit, ladies and gentlemen.

this is why drug laws are shit, ladies and gentlemen.

Why are police quotas, for any crime, legal?

The next day: Former NYPD narcotics detective arrested with 100 million pounds of cocaine and heroin. He says he is innocent, cops say he lies.

Why in hell do you need a quota? It will just encourage corruption

I'm glad other people are mirroring my thoughts as well. Quotas for crime prevention should not exist.

I imagine the cops doing that "Hey look what I found behind your ear trick" :v:

That is actually really shameful, quotas in general are just fucking terrible and counter-productive. It should never be about how many arrests or investigations you can do, but rather the quality of these investigations and who you take down. The best operations take months, sometimes even years of work to get your guy. Detective work isn't for the weak willed or impatient. All quotas do is promote sloppy work which isn't done properly in the first place.

I assume the chief rounded everyone up one day to yell at them about quotas, a rant which possibly contained phrases like "the mayor's gonna be on my ass about this".

Later: Internal Affairs detectives admit they fabricated corruption charges in order to meet quota.

Wow the police lied? What a shocker!

you'd think not filling the quota would be seen as a good thing since you know a sign of less crime

"Just sprinkle some crack on him, and we're out of here." [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7F50Cd8LME[/media]

There should not be a quota for arrest. Arresting people is not like SALES!

[QUOTE=Conspiracy;32774435]"Just sprinkle some crack on him, and we're out of here."[/QUOTE] Hahah, the first thing I thought about

Everybody knows the cops have quotas for everything from drug arrests to traffic tickets. If they are perceived as slacking off, they get fired in the next round of budget cuts. Like every other employee in this country, they invent ways to seem more valuable so that someone else gets the axe instead of them. That doesn't make it right, but when the nation's mentality is "Cut, cut, cut" people will lie and cheat to no end to make themselves look better, even at the cost of ruining innocent people's lives.

[QUOTE=Mister Sandman;32774415]you'd think not filling the quota would be seen as a good thing since you know a sign of less crime[/QUOTE] Arrests/charges =/= less crime. Cops could be doing a bad job with law enforcement, not meeting the quota, and there would be no decrease in actual crime. Quotas, however are still a fairly bad way to measure police efficency though, as crimes rates could go down, and therefore the quota would not be met, which would lead to stuff like this.

FUCK the po-lice.