And they just hired 500 new rookies- with nothing but time on their hands and the urge to fill quotas and "play" the hero,  I'll bet...something tells me things aren't going to get better ANY time soon!

I swear, the more cops I meet, the less respect I have for them- and the more I read accounts like the one above, the less I want to deal with them- as PLUMNYC said above, It's a vicious cycle....

im a victim of their work after they planted in my home it caused me to loose my children my family has been tor apart my daughter who is an emt for fdny is on the verge of losing her job that she worked very hard to get. the nypd is the cause of me having my last child early her having a stroke at birth i have been complaining to the ccrb for two yrs now an to no avail no one has help me an these detectives must have found out some type of way cause they follow me they disrespect me in front of my children im afraid for my life my family lives i cant sleep at night flashbacks of them kicking my door in knockin my little ones on the floor its so bad that when where outside an u say the cops r coming my four yr old puts her hood on her head an starts walkin fast in the other direction. acs has returned my children to me thank god but they are not the same children but they told me to sue because my children were never supposed to be removed from my home my case is still on going but the search warrent still hasnt been pesented in almost two years i dont wish bad on anyone but i hope all of them go to jail an rot in there to be tooken away from their love ones like mine were takin away from me. do you know what its like to not want to go outside or to to hear a car door bang loudly at three in the morning an you jumpin out your bed running to your window to see what is going on feeling like they are coming again i have not gottena good rest in almost two years i look like a racoon around the eyes serve an protect more like seek an destroy  

i dont belive that.

This is sadly not a new thing. Malcolm X said in his autobiography that the cops used to do this, and even tried it on him to find an excuse to put him away. He beat it by loudly yelling and making a scene when they got close to him, so all the eyewitnesses would prevent them from trying it.

this is awful. I agree, I'm sure they target minorities. If they tried something like that on me no one would believe it. But go to the bronx and plant it on some innocent minority and everyone assumes it's true. how terrible. don't become a cop if you don't have a sense of morality. I think the nypd needs to start over!! cops are supposed to be the good guys, protecting everyone and doing their job. this is unbelievable. :(

they plant on white people too,, cops dont see skin color  .. the only thing they see is Dollar Signs...  they get bonus over time pay for each fake cocaine arrest they make.. Minoritys get it worse of course,,  but that is cause more police of trolling thier neighborhoods

This happened to my uncle.  He's a married man with kids, a jeweler by trade.  It was a Friday payday, and he had cash on him and the bad luck to be in a Queens restaurant that the cops decided to sweep.  They planted cocaine on him, and because he had cash on him they painted him with intent to distribute (as opposed to just buy).  He spent a week in jail.  This thing held over his head for a year, and he never saw that money ever again.   

Oh, and they only dismissed the charge when we hired a lawyer who threatened to get the sample tested by an independent lab.

Too many people's jobs depend on the prison industrial complex.  If you have to invent crimes to justify the existence of your job your job isn't needed.

people like this detective are in the minority but give all legitimate cops bad names.

At this rate, based on my experiences and those of my friends, all minorities, I can pretty much tell you it's 50/50.  The bad ones are not as much of a minority as you think.  And it's not just the guys that get screwed over, I've had friends be sexually harassed and one high school student who had her breasts patted down in an isolated train station by two male cops on her way to school for no real reason, she wasn't even late.  

Most of it doesn't get reported because people know it won't get anywhere.  And I'm not just saying this to say it, I've been in a car that was pulled over at gun point on a Sunday afternoon for no good reason with my friend's elderly parents in the car.

I've met good cops, they do exist, but a whole lot of them are very corrupt, too many.

Ok, Officer! 

Do you have numbers on how many cops plant drugs on citizens?

No. Do you? But I'd also be willing to bet that most cops aren't arresting people for drugs with any sort of regularity either. But you can feel free to keep thinking that its some sort of widespread massive conspiracy.

I take it back, you can't be a cop—if you were, you'd know that drugs, specifically marijuana, are the NUMBER ONE cause of arrest in NYC. Even though it's supposed to be "decriminalized." 140 people are arrested here every day just for marijuana. So yeah, cops are arresting people for drugs with a lot of regularity. Try again.

just to clarify (because a lot of people don't know)... possessing a small amount of marijuana was 'decriminalized' in the sense that its a violation and NYS defines 'crimes' as a misdemeanor or felony. Harassment (punching your wife but not leaving a mark) is also decriminalized, but it's still illegal.  

Any time you have that marijuana burning or in public view, it becomes a misdemeanor. 

Actually, punching your wife would be considered domestic abuse and is not decriminalized in New York. (See: Topeka, Kansas)

I think he was using the term "punching your wife" to mean jay walking, or blocking the box.

yeah but the "not leaving a mark" part confuses me?

According to this article >4.  There doesn't need to be a massive conspiracy.  Officers of the law should be held to a higher ethical and legal standard.  Instead they rarely are held accountable for their misdeeds.

How many good cops cancels out crooked ones making felony cases out of innocent civilians?  One bad apple does spoil the bunch when it's poisonous.