you're still way too dumb , numnuts

LOL. Angry a bit? You read it genius. It was from the NY Times. I guess that the truth hurts a bit huh?

NYPD really needs to be rebuilt.

Over the weekend, a grand jury in the Bronx was reported to have indicted 17 police officers for having performed a special form of magic: making traffic summonses disappear for the benefit of the overprivileged. The accused officers, among them a raft of police union delegates, are supposed to turn themselves in this week, perhaps as early as Monday, to be charged formally with bribery, perjury, official misconduct and other crimes. No “perp walks” for them, apparently.As police scandals go, the ticket-fixing business seems relatively small bore compared with gothic tales from the past.It lacks the cinematic sweep of the departmentwide corruption exposed four decades ago by Detectives Frank Serpico and David Durk. It is not as appalling as the outrages of the “Dirty 30,” officers in the 30th Precinct in Harlem charged two decades ago with stealing guns, drugs and cash. It is certainly not as horrifying as the depravity of the “Mafia cops,” Stephen Caracappa and Louis J. Eppolito, who are spending the rest of their days in prison for having served as assassins for the mob.Still, when it comes to tarnishing the Police Department, the latest indictments will do. Hundreds of officers have been linked to the scandal. Many are expected to face departmental discipline even if they escaped criminal charges.Naturally, if someone took a bribe, someone else had to have offered it. It would do us all good to learn who in the upper tiers of New York political and social circles may have weaseled their way out of fines after behaving badly behind the wheel.Even among those of us whose normal default position is to give the police a benefit of the doubt, heads are shaking over recent behavior by those we entrust with a uniform, a badge and a gun.Last month, Officer Michael Pena was charged with grabbing a woman off the street in Inwood, in northern Manhattan, and raping her at gunpoint. The police are investigating whether Officer Pena was involved in other rape cases.Also last month, two certified Police Department bozos received jail sentences in the infamous case of a young woman who accused them of having raped her in her apartment while she was in a drunken stupor. A jury had acquitted the officers of rape but found them guilty of misdemeanor official misconduct. That the two men, Kenneth Moreno and Franklin L. Mata, disgraced the uniform is incontestable. Mr. Moreno was sentenced to a year in jail, Mr. Mata to two months.Now we have questions about whether some officers can control themselves when dealing with political protesters they may dislike.Similar questions were raised in the mass arrests of demonstrators ­­— and some bystanders — during the 2004 Republican National Convention. Hundreds upon hundreds of people were rounded up then in the course of expressing their views about the state of the country. Charges were later dropped in nearly all cases.The latest episode turns on the arrests of dozens of men and women who have been protesting an American economic system they deem unjust. On Saturday, they marched to Union Square from an encampment that they had set up a week earlier near Wall Street. Some of them seemed primed for confrontation with the police. But others merely voiced their grievances.A few young women were stopped by the police just south of Union Square and corralled on a stretch of sidewalk with plastic netting held by officers. An amateur video posted on the Internet shows an officer in a white shirt — signifying fairly high rank — walking up to the women and dousing them with pepper spray. The officer then walks away, disappearing behind a wall of blue uniforms. The women fall to the sidewalk, crying in pain.In the video, there is no sign of their having been violent or posing a threat. A police spokesman, in defending use of the spray, offered a veiled suggestion that the video might have been edited to make the officer look bad.No such doctoring was evident, though. There was also no indication that the department intended to investigate this event.But in an age of ever-present cameras, smartphones and other recording devices, the police are surely aware that their behavior is subject to scrutiny as much as anyone else’s. In a sense, they, too, have been Mirandized.There are situations in which anything they say — or do — can and sometimes will be used against them.

where did you copy that from.  youre way to dumb to write all of that.  and if you did your just wasted the most time ever on a pointless post on a pointless site.  congrats no one will read your wasted time

Can i honestly ask someone in here to tell me what they think is going to change because of this protest????  I just see every nypd officer making doctor pay this year because of the overtime and nothing in the economy or politics changing.  there are 8 million people in this city and a few hundred or maybe a thousand unemployed hippies think they're going to change the country.  

Don't mess with Bloomie's bed partners....you get your head cracked open.

New York Pig Department: New York's Swinest

Yep

Is it a police state in 1984 yet? Getting too damn close!

Arrested girl's account of protesters abuse by NYPD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

still forming my opinion on the protest but i wonder why they aren't protesting where the banks are located.  most of the banks moved their main offices to midtown. goldman sachs hq is in battery park city. i would feel more supportive of their protest if they were smarter and better organized.

Golman Sachs is down there, on Maiden Lane. Deutsche Bank is in Battery Park City. Morgan Stanley is in Times Square, BofA is in Midtown and so is Barclays.

yup.  but goldman sachs moved their headquarters to battery park city (across the street from the world financial center and shake shack).  

moltov moltov moltov

To those of you who live in the city, I seriously suggest you visit Liberty (Zucotti) park and talk to some people who are camped out in order to form a realistic opinion.

My opinion:  I'm for this cause because we've all been fucked by this "financial crisis."  However, I agree with some commenters that the movement is incoherent and somewhat disorganized.  I visited the park as an observer and I'm still forming my overall opinion.   

But again, I would go down to the park and learn more first hand instead of forming opinions based on the youtube clips.  Unlike other Gothamist stories, this one is ongoing and there's plenty of opportunity for self education.

http://youtu.be/moD2JnGTToA

I hear lots of shouting, but the women that get sprayed by surprise, directly in the face.... completely uncalled for.  I can't believe that officer is going to get away with a crime like that.

 I love how they leave out the part of the video where a protester is see resisting arrest and attacking an offer. Then the crowd reacts and tries to push past the barrier to "rescue" the guy. Then the police mace the crowd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Yes, they leave out the part where the dangerous screaming people are completely overwhelming the beefy cops. Certainly a reason for a well-trained person with a gun to shoot pepper spray in the face of a woman. But then again, I expect this sort of "law and order" porn from the right wingers. Fascists love when people get their heads beaten in for speaking up.

everything on this site is one sided.  they still think obama is doing a good job

Love the video of the NYPD macing corralled women for no reason, and accidentally spraying one of their own officers. Keep it classy NYPD thugs!