New York City on Tuesday reached a $175,000 settlement with a Staten Island police officer who said he had been a victim of retaliation for giving traffic tickets to people with connections to the upper echelons of the Police Department.
The officer, Mathew Bianchi, filed a lawsuit against the city last May. The suit said that he had been transferred out of his precinct’s traffic unit after Jeffrey Maddrey, then the chief of patrol and now the department’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, asked that he be punished. Officer Bianchi had issued a ticket to a woman with whom Chief Maddrey was said to be friends, according to the suit.
“This settlement is a vindication for our client, allowing him to close this chapter and continue his service with the N.Y.P.D.,” John Scola, Officer Bianchi’s lawyer, said on Tuesday. “We hope that Officer Bianchi’s courage and this decisive outcome will inspire other officers to come forward as whistle-blowers.”
Ah, sounds like that traffic stop started with, “Do you know who I am?”
The police literally have ‘courtesy cards’ they hand out to friends and family to avoid getting them ticketed - that’s a practice that absolutely needs to stop.
Growing up I had a relative with one of these cards, signed on the back by the leader of the SWAT in the next town over. My relative was high on opiods while driving with me in the car when we got pulled over because he was nodding off and kept swerving and rolling stop signs and doing other dumb shit. He showed the cop the card and that was that, the cop was suddenly so nice and just let him drive off obviously drugged out of his mind with a child in the car.
I think it should continue but every person who presents said card should automatically get the harshest legal punishment possible for whatever their infraction was.
Would have been a warning? Guess what, that card now entitles you to a $500 ticket.
No, but maybe I’ll find out when you hand me your driver’s license, registration, and proof of insurance like I asked…
*Don’t you know who I am?!
His career is going to be hell. Cops hate a boy scout.
There are no good apples because good apples routinely get punished, or worse. Its reall easy for group of in cops to explain away how the out cop got shot and died.
Hell the cop they claim got shot by cop city protestors turnd out to have been shot in the back of the head when only other police were behind him and nothing came of that except an excuse to beat up protesters. Cops cause more crime than they solve.
So they fired, chief Maddrey, right?? Since he’s the one who actually abused his position. Otherwise, what the hell is the point of this payout? It’ll just happen again.
They’re not trying to stop it from happening again, they’re trying to get us all to shut up about it until the next person tries to assassinate Trump so the media cycle can sweep this under the rug. That’s what the big settelment is for.
If Cops got MORE Taxpayer Dollars they wouldn’t Need to Punish Officers who Ticket People!
He better watch his back. Wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if he was suddenly and unexpectedly taken out by a “random” perp…
He’s still a cop though, right? So he’s learned nothing.
The cop is in the right, this time. What was he supposed to learn?
He was supposed to learn ACAB.
he had been transferred out of his precinct’s traffic unit after Jeffrey Maddrey, then the chief of patrol and now the department’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, asked that he be punished.
He’s learned that the cop who got wronged can pick up $175k in taxpayer money while the cop who engaged in the corruption gets to keep climbing the seniority ladder to do this shit again.
Everybody wins!
do you want all the decent cops to quit?
Yes. It would make it easier to burn the jackboots down and start fresh.
Riiiiight, is that before or after Dread/robocop arc?
I bet you believe in civil coups being realistic too?
Its right after you pull your head out of your ass.
What decent cops?
The ones fighting against corruption on the inside, like this person just did. Come on Squid.
What corruption has he fought that hasn’t affected him personally?
Take a break. It must be tiring being this deliberately obtuse.
Insulting me doesn’t change the fact that he only supposedly fought the corruption when he got demoted. Or do you think that’s the only corruption he ever witnessed as a cop in Staten Island?
Did you read the article?
According to the post description, he was punished AFTER he ticketed the higher ranking cop’s friend. Where did you pick up the being punished before part?
change the fact
There’s your failing.
I’m not saying he did or did not see whatever supposed corruption you’re saying is going on.
However, you’re trotting out the usual ACAB trope when you have the same level of knowledge as anyone else - that is to say, fuck all. There’s little to support your assertion of a “fact” here at all.
I’m not arsed one way or another whether you like cops or not, but at least make your arguments make sense.
I’m not aware of any headlines stating that. How do you know this is the only corruption they fought?
Seems like he was doing his job professionally and ignoring requests by superiors to give special treatment, all the way to reprisals and getting demoted because he wouldn’t stoop to their corruption… Isn’t that what we want with cops?
ACAB, except the ones actually fighting and fixing this stuff. We need good ones and should encourage them.
Why should we assume he ever did anything other than what we’re told he did. He fought and fixed something because he was personally punished by it.
The cops that fight the corruption that doesn’t affect them don’t stay cops for long.
What are you talking about? He fought against special treatment BEFORE getting reprisals. He was punished after treating people equally, not before.
The settlement was about the reprisals he faced for sticking to his guns and NOT becoming corrupt. You should be mad at the pig in charge who pushed for the demotion, not the guy doing the right thing.
And Maddry is still in charge.
