Judge Jack Weinstein rips NYPD on false arrests

[Modbert]

Judge Jack Weinstein rips NYPD on false arrests as brothers sue for $10M over wrongful narcs bust

A respected federal judge slammed the NYPD Monday as plagued by "widespread falsification by arresting officers."

Brooklyn Federal Judge Jack Weinstein delivered the disturbing appraisal in a four-page decision refusing to throw out a multimillion dollar suit against the city filed by two men who were busted on bogus narcotics charges.

Weinstein, a 40-year veteran of the bench, was not persuaded by the city's claim that there is no evidence that police lying is condoned as an official policy.

Official Policy?

"Informal inquiry by [myself] and among the judges of this court, as well as knowledge of cases in other federal and state courts ... has revealed anecdotal evidence of repeated, widespread falsification by arresting officers of the New York City Police Department," Weinstein wrote.

He said that while the vast majority of cops don't engage in crooked practices, it was common enough to be an institutional problem.

Maximo Colon and his brother, Jose, say Queens narcs busted them last year on false charges of selling cocaine in order to meet arrest quotas.

A surveillance tape inside Club Delicias de Mi Terra completely exonerated the Colons and led to the indictments of Detectives Henry Tavarez and Stephen Anderson.

The Colons then filed a $10 million lawsuit for false arrest.

Weinstein lowered the boom on the NYPD after giving city lawyer Afsaan Saleem a chance to come up with documentation showing that steps have been taken to address any problem of false testimony and fabricated criminal charges by cops.

In the past year, hundreds of drug cases have been tossed due to a corruption scandal in the Brooklyn South narcotics unit, three cops were arrested for covering up the sodomy of a suspect in the Prospect Park subway station and a veteran Bronx detective was convicted of perjury.

Thoughts?

 

[Oddball]

A lot of times, drug arrests are for little more than the value of the forfeitures involved.

It's a massive police racket.

 

[Modbert]

A lot of times, drug arrests are for little more than the value of the forfeitures involved.

It's a massive police racket.

Sure are, another reason why the War on Drugs is wrong.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Maybe KSM will use this at his trial

 

[Charles Stucker]

I find it telling that it required absolute documentary evidence to "Prove the Innocence" of the accused brothers. If it had been the unsupported "word" of the accused against the officers the prosecution would have claimed, at least by inference, "The police have no reason to lie, but the suspects do."

We (supposedly) need all the money spent on law enforcement to protect us from the vast number of criminals. But without that threat, of crime, no one would vote for the taxes. It is a trivial conclusion that police and the law enforcement system exist to draw pay and that that to do so they must produce crime. If the "war on Drugs" ever were to end in "victory" the legal system would be out all that lucrative graft.

 

[William Joyce]

Weinstein is Jewish. He hates the police because they represent Nazism to him. Judges aren't really supposed to weigh in with the result of their "informal inquiry", but stick to the facts before them. Apparently when you're a big cheese ****, you can just freewheel like this and get away with it. We goyim should follow suit.

 

[Charles Stucker]

Weinstein is Jewish. He hates the police because they represent Nazism to him.

Really? Perhaps he is American and hates corruption so he goes after it whenever he can.

 

[bodecea]

Maybe KSM will use this at his trial

Being as that he was arrested by NYC police and all.......