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The New York City Mob
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Not the Gambinos. NYPD.
Last year, New York police officers were seen dancing in the streets just before arresting four men in a city nightclub on charges of selling $100 worth of cocaine. It took six months and the men’s life savings, but their names were finally cleared when prosecutors took the unusual step of announcing in court that the men had committed no crime.
That’s because club surveillance video shows that the undercover cops had no contact with the accused men in the two hours they were in the club.
Now, club owner Eduardo Espinoza says the police are retaliating against him.
Espinoza said he thinks police are retaliating against him because of a strange phone call he received shortly before the harassment began.
A man who identified himself as the officer who made the drug arrest in his club demanded to know if Espinoza had taped the events of that night.
"I said I already gave it to the defendants," Espinoza said, "He said, ‘Oh s–t.’ He hung up."
Espinoza had received just two summonses in the two-and-a-half years he owned the club prior to turning over the videotapes. He has received more than a dozen since.
"I been harassed so much, I’m selling my business," said Espinoza, owner of Delicias de Mi Tierra on 91st Place in Elmhurst.
"Every two to three weeks, there’s cops in here, searching the bar. If there’s no violation, they’ll make it up. I lost all my clients – everybody’s scared to come in my place right now."
The officers implicated by the surveillance tapes are being investigated, but still on duty.
Look guys, when something like this happens, there are just two possibilities. Depending on the availability and quality of video footage, either the cops were following regular departmental procedures or they were just a few bad apples. The vast majority of cops are law-abiding, respectful, pillars of the community….
You little people need to get that through your thick skulls.
An upcoming movie gets it about right (Righteous Kill), where Robert Di Niro’s character says You don’t become a cop because you want to serve and protect. You join the force because they let you carry a gun and a badge. You do it because you get respect.
That’s it. You can join the Mexican Mafia, M13, or the Crips. But being one of the Boys-in-Blue will you get all the same power and respect-at-point-of-gun with better press coverage and an entire legal system ready to cover for you. There is no better gang for fucking people over and getting away with it.
You know, I bet that is an actual process flow diagram in one of their manuals.
The NYPD is investigating the officers involved in this incident. Two of the officers are reportedly on modified duty
As long as modified duty means incarcerated, I’m cool with that.
I was wondering about that “modified duty”, too. But given that another NYC cop had to post bail after issuing fake traffic tickets, “modified duty” sounds a little tame.
NYPD are the most power hungry force in the nation. They are the model for our new police state. They can search your bags without probable cause, shut down whole city blocks and ID everyone within. I was stopped on my way out at the Holland tunnel by them and held up for an hour while they checked out my ID. As I watched them arrest people for outstanding tickets and whatever else they could dig up. After asking why i was being checked out and what I had done. The officer just played stupid. Then they let me go.
Incredible. Too bad the guy is selling his bar instead of filing a lawsuit, but I can see his point.
The mafia can now start selling protection packages for local businesses…
And by that I mean insurance that your business won’t be disrupted by law enforcement…
DK wrote:
“You little people need to get that through your thick skulls.”
Care to explain why the previous posters are “little people” and clarify who are the big people?
Dave Krueger: If you were trying to convince me of something in your first paragraph, it would have been best to leave the last sentence off your post. Calling me a “little person” and saying that I have “a thick skull” does very little to convince me of the strength of your arguments. In fact, it tends to be counter-productive.
Hey MikeL (#11) and Curious (#10), Dave Krueger was sarcastically speaking from the cops’ perspective while pointing out how they respond publicly (if there’s video, then they are a few bad apples. If there is not video then they followed procedure.)
Those of us regulars here know Dave’s sarcasm.
“Dave Krueger” is likely from some other Gestapo-wannabe organization that is just as bad as NYPD.
The “little people” comment (which police use instead of ‘nigger’ ’spic’ ‘chink’ ’slanteye’ ‘doper’ etc) is telling. The general attitude of ‘law enforcement’ is that you either have a badge, or are one of the people that authorizes budget and paychecks, or you are nothing.
They are samauri, and our sole purpose is to provide necks to test out the sharpness of their katanas.
#7
Lawsuit, hell. There should be criminal charges against every slimeball gangster in blue that wrote a ticket there. This is obvious harassment, intimidation, abuse of power and suppression of commerce.
And Radley, I disagree with your characterization of NYPD as being the New York City Mob. They aren’t even that honorable — definitely not as honorable as the Sopranos. They are a street gang. A drug-running, gun-selling (they can’t account for 30% of the guns in evidence) street gang with legal protections.
Anyone who isn’t afraid of the police these days are either one with the street gang or clinically insane.
#10, #11, #14 and #15:
Time to bring the sarcasm detector to the shop. It is definitely not working.
I actually got a little chuckle out of that before the complete truth of that parody sank in.
Guys, Dave in #1 is using *sarcasm*. The fact that you didn’t recognize that is, in and of itself, scary.
Dave’s sarcasm tends to come uncomfortably close to what too many actually say seriously. Still, I think that the parody in the first paragraph should have been obvious.
Draughn’s Rule of Internet Sarcasm:
No matter how obviously sarcastic or ironic your post seems to you, someone somewhere will have witnessed that very thing stated in all sincerity and with great earnestness…and that person will flame you for it.
Frank, Curoius, and Mike L.
Sorry, guys. I thought “little people” comment was far enough out of bounds to ensure the first paragraph would be recognized as a spoof. Zeb probably hit the nail on the head. It was probably too close to reality to be recognized as sarcasm by everyone who reads it.
Bad cops
Bad cops
Whatcha gonna do
Whatcha gonna do
When they’re shootin’ at you
Those of you who thought Dave was serious should either:
1) Rent the director’s cut of “Blade Runner”
2) Read Philip K Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”
You will then recognize the reference.
“Bad” cops break the law.
“Good” cops harass anyone who notices that “bad” cops break the law, thereby deterring others from complaining about “bad” cops.
It is almost as if the difference between “good” cops and “bad” cops is strictly rhetorical.
Where Dave’s comment isn’t that accurate: you actually get rid of “bad apples”.