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BREAKING: "A Lot" Of NYC Cops Are Racist

092611cops.jpg Some NYPD officers caught up in the ticket-fixing investigation were caught on wiretaps using racist language, and prosecutors are working hard to make sure the tapes are never made public, a source tells the Daily News. Phew—we certainly wouldn't want anything to besmirch the NYPD's sterling reputation!

To protect New Yorkers' innocent faith in their noble police officers, prosecutors have reportedly cut deals with other defendants "in dozens of cases...to ensure the ticket-fixing issue didn't become a factor at trial." And the Post reports that the tapes include officers not involved in the ticket scandal saying racist remarks. Another unidentified source admits, "That's how a lot of cops talk."

"If a Bronx jury hears a cop call someone a n----r or an animal, everything else they say goes out the window," says one "veteran defense lawyer" with a client who was arrested by a cop implicated in the scandal. The News also learns that Officer Peter Hans was caught on tape making disparaging remarks about the Bronx "ghettos" of Mott Haven and Melrose. Prosecutors successfully persuaded a judge to seal all transcripts of his profanity-laced calls, and a lawyer tells the tabloid, "You'll probably see that happen again and again."

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  • Gadea

    Try living in the non-white, non-asian, parts of the city.
    For example East Harlem, South Bronx, Fulton Projects, Chelsea Elliot NYCHA,
    any project in the Bronx, Brooklyn and see how you make out.
    Unfortunately, minority males are predator males.
    Not all of them, but enough so that a reasonable person will be alert if they encounter one
    of them  and they are vulnerable to attack, because they are carrying Iphone, Ipod,
    laptop, have a pocketbook, look like they might have a little  $$$.
    The majority of the arrest in NYC for assaults, robbery, muggings, theft happen to be minority males. They are out of work, out of an education and out of luck.

  • Jereremy

    Mostly, we minority males are out of patience for such antiquated bullshit thinking.  

  • Gadea

    Ask NYPD minority cops who they are most likely to arrest
    for street crimes.  What is the race & nationality of the youngest
    person, 14 years old, to be locked up for murder in NYC?

    What is the race/nationality of the young lady that is going around
    slashing the faces of teenage girls on the #4 subway line?
    What is the race of the "youths" that bombard bicyclist with
    rocks around certain Rikers Island annex known as a housing project?
    What does the "young man" beating the daylights out of the
    81 year old man in Parkchester for $30.00, gold chain, look
    like to you?  The video is all over the internet.
    Black & Hispanic men, are committing the majority of the
    street crimes in NYC.
    I know people that live in the Bronx and Brooklyn, that
    are afraid to come out of their apartments at night.
    Who are they afraid of?
    The Asian kids, the Hasidic kids they come across in
    their neigborhoods?
    Stop lying to yourself and open your eyes.
    You can give any excuse you want, they lack education,
    they are society's rejects, nobody wants them around.
    Their parents bred them and didn't bother to be parents.
    They have a lot of problems.
    Well and yes, all of that is true and it is also true that
    they cause they are front and center when it comes
    to muggings, assaults, killings, street robberies in NYC.

  • torchTheMall

    Its true, the cops call anyone who isnt white "savages" and im 100% serious.

  • proudliberal1947

    The Post, like they have any credibility, you know what Anti American hate and Fear monger OWNS the Post.

  • How is one defining "racism"? Because in certain circumstances, the N-word can be justifiably used and it NOT be racism.

  • bggb

    Usage of the n-word is pretty straightforward.

  • whiteiris

    Have you listened to rap "music" about cops? So sick of this racist bullshit day in and day out. Like Obama said, put away your bedroom slippers yo, and stop complaining.

  • bggb

    You sound like a Focus on the Family activist from the 1980s.

    Modern society is passing you by.

  • HJaySimpson

    Isn't that a prerequisite to being a cop?

  • petey2

    What if its a black cop that uses that forbidden word? Is it ok? Or is it only the rappers and other roll models of the black community that can use that word?

  • GregJG

    Nice try

  • LICnative

    Once again, the District Attorney is selectively "leaking" damaging information in the court of public opinion that couldn't be possibly introduced as evidence in a criminal trial.

    It's called "tainting" the jury. Anyone who cares about the integrity of the judicial system should be appalled at the tactic.

    I hope the trial is moved away from the Bronx. Why doesn't the District Attorney just get a strong rope and a tall tree?

  • Guest

    Wow, you mean to tell me that police officers are human? No shit?

  • The majority of the NYPD isnt even white.

  • NRafter530

    I don't think that's true 

  • m015094

    And you'd be wrong.  As of 2009, the NYPD is:

    47.5% Caucasian,

    28.9% Hispanic,

    17.9% African American,

    5.5% Asian

  • edgie168

    That totally negates the allegation that "a lot" of NYPD cops are racist.

    Excellent detective work there, sir.

  • petey2

    You're implying that only white people can be racist?

  • edgie168

    oh yes, that's *exactly* what i'm implying--only white people can ever be racist.

    ever.

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