Police found weapons, ammunition, and 27 bags of marijuana in the closet of the 17-year-old son of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association's Second Vice President Mubarak Abdul-Jabbar, according to the Daily News. Authorities searched the Bronx home of Hameed Abdul-Jabbar because they suspected he may have been connected to a shooting, and found a 9mm Ruger, ten rounds of live ammunition, and a 12-gauge shotgun loaded with five shells in addition to the drugs. more ›

There's trouble in NYPD police officers' union paradise—or is it hell, these days? With 16 police officers indicted in the massive ticket-fixing scandal, an investigation prompted by a police officer with alleged ties to a drug dealer, delegates of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association voiced their displeasure with union president Patrick J. Lynch: In what the NY Times calls a "rare revolt," over 30 delegates said that Lynch should step down—and the Post reports that the 50 delegates "stormed out" of a meeting. more ›

As many as 40 NYPD officers, including prominent officials at the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, could be indicted in the ticket-fixing probe as early as this week by a Bronx grand jury. "The ones you'll see indicted are ones who went further than just taking care of a ticket for a friend," a source tells the Daily News, "It goes beyond courtesy." This includes PBA officials like Joe Anthony, who was caught on tape taking care of summonses, as well as Officer Salvador Duran, whose credibility in a murder trial was successfully challenged after revelations of his ticket fixing. The suspect walked. more ›

Although a jury found three NYPD officers not guilty of participating in the sodomy of a Brooklyn man in a subway station in 2008, the alleged victim's civil lawsuit is going forward. Plaintiff Michael Mineo has named Officers Richard Kern, Alex Cruz and Andrew Morales as defendants in the $400 million dollar suit against the city, but in a surprise move, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association is trying to add another cop to the list of defendants. The PBA wants Officer Kevin Maloney, who broke ranks to testify against three fellow cops at their criminal trial, named as a defendant. more ›

A new law takes mercy on hobbled prison inmates who, for physical reasons, are no longer a danger to society; it also saves the state the high cost of caring for them. An extended version of the law (which now includes sex offenders and violent felons) went into effect last year, but on February 9th, Don Juan Britt became the first jailbird paroled under its jurisdictions. Britt—who violently stabbed a man in Crown Heights—has served 15 years of a 20 year sentence despite being paralyzed by a brain aneurysm. Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, was outraged that the convict will walk free. "This is a softening of penalties in the law that completely ignores the pain and suffering of the crime victims," he said. more ›

Someone in the NYPD bureau responsible for preventing police corruption leaked the identity of an officer who told investigators about a Bronx lieutenant's alleged shady doings, according to the cop's lawyer. After officer and former police union rep Frank Palestro sent what were supposed to be anonymous tips to Internal Affairs, he found a mousetrap with his name on it in the 42nd Precinct and an Internal Affairs call log containing his cellphone number in his locker. "The log was sent back to the precinct by [Internal Affairs] and I think it was done deliberately," said attorney Eric Sanders. more ›

The Patrolmen's Benevelont Association has negotiated a tentative deal with a 17% salary increase over four years. According to WNBC, the "deal running from 2006-2010 gives police officers a four percent raise in each of those four years and contains no substantial givebacks." The starting salary will now be about $42,000, a 68% jump from the $25,000 starting salary rookies had in recent years; current starting salaries are $36,000. Maximum pay will be $76,488, vs. the current $65,382. Noting that this negotiation did not need to go to arbitration, Mayor Bloomberg said, "I have always believed that the best contract agreements are those that are reached at the bargaining table, and this is a good example of that." more ›

Now that the NYPD got an almost 10% retroactive pay hike, the firefighters are looking for a similar boost. The Uniformed Firefighters Association want to revisit the raises for the years 2004-2006 where their annual raises were 3.15% or less. more ›

First, some fire fighters' unions spoke out against presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani. Now a police officers' union is totally anti-Rudy. The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch issued a statement blaming the former mayor for not giving cops raises ("zeroes for heroes" contract) and essentially creating the recruiting/retainment problems the NYPD has. And then there's what the PBA thinks about Giuliani's 9/11 record: Giuliani has wrapped himself firmly in the cloak of 9/11 for his... more ›