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A YouTube video titled "NYPD corruption at its best," depicts undercover NYPD officers stuffing cash in their pockets during a raid at embattled Staten Island bar "Beer Goggles" (MySpace). The surveillance tape was recorded back in November 2007 when cops busted the bar for promoting gambling; three employees were arrested but the charges were eventually dropped.
In the video, (see below), the officers are shown smashing a poker video game, counting cash on the bar, and putting it into their pockets. The NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau investigated Sergeant William Lewis, a 24-year veteran, after the bar's landlord accused him of alerting Beer Goggles to the raid. After a five month investigation, he was suspended and charged with corruption last March.
Several cops from the raiding party testified against Lewis, and his lawyers introduced the surveillance tape to impeach the credibility of the raiders' testimony. But according to the Post, no "official determination has been made as to whether cops were simply doing their jobs," when they pocketed the money. $700 of vouchered cash was later returned to bar owner Chris Shaffer.
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just the kind of CPR (cockiness, presumptiousness, and lack of respect) nyc citizens have come to expect from their police force, especially if they make under 100,000 a year. at least they didn't sodomize the bartender with a broken-off plunger handle or pump him full of bullets after they took the dirty money.
anyway i dont even know what the point of prosecuting this is...the guy's going to get off with a slap on the wrist just like every Sus domestica ssp. newyorkia who does something wrong.
haha once again...not shocked at all!
They'll get a suspension or something small and be back at it within a month.
Who knew Orwell's idea of Big Brother would come to fruition with The People being Big Brother?
Except in Big Brother, you got severely punished for the smallest "infraction." Here we get tape of them doing bad things, but nothing (or very little) will come of it.
The Vic Mackey School of Law Enforcement.
OK it certainly LOOKS bad but allow me to play devil's advocate: does anyone have any proof that the cash seized was not in fact turned in as evidence when the cops got back to the precinct? While pocketing the cash is generally a bad idea, if all the cash was then vouchered as evidence, then there was no crime.
Now, if I was seizing cash, here's what I'd do to prevent the appearance of impropriety: count out the cash and then have a colleague make his/her own count. If my count and his/her count agree, then that amount is noted. If not, then we both recount and see who screwed up the count. After the cash is counted, I'd put it in an envelope or evidence bag (NOT my pocket) and seal it. A receipt would be left for the bar owner indicating how much cash was seized and the cash would be turned in as evidence.
In fact, that's pretty much what's supposed to be done. Even if it is the fact that eventually all the money was "re-united" and vouchered, clearly they violated procedure.
that a pretty slammin myspace page they have set up. Love the "friends" of this dump too.
I was wrong, Americans aren't war criminals. You're just plain CRIMINALS ..PERIOD.
Enjoy.
This reminds me of that line from Ocean's Eleven where Julia Roberts says to Andy Garcia,"You of all people should know, the cameras are always watching" Unfortunately this isn't make believe, these are real, truly retarded NYPD officers.