BY John Marzulli 
A former NYPD narcotics detective snared in a corruption scandal testified it was common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas.
The bombshell testimony from Stephen Anderson is the first public account of the twisted culture behind the false arrests in the Brooklyn South and Queens narc squads, which led to the arrests of eight cops and a massive shakeup.
[...]Anderson worked in the Queens and Brooklyn South narcotics squads and was called to the stand at Arbeeny's bench trial to show the illegal conduct wasn't limited to a single squad.
"Did you observe with some frequency this ... practice which is taking someone who was seemingly not guilty of a crime and laying the drugs on them?" Justice Gustin Reichbach asked Anderson.
"Yes, multiple times," he replied.
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what ever happened to public executions? This is exactly what you get when you the insane right wing pushes performance based policing. People are prevented from filing charges in order to make it seem like reduced crimes against persons, people are falsely arrested in order to maintain arrest rates, corrupt police are protected to make the police force look better and cops for hire private to attack your enemies ie exactly how you typical corporation runs, lie cheat and steal and use public relations to gloss over everything.
Hmm, stinks like Bloomberg, well guess what, it's exactly what right wing idiots voted for. RTB61 nailed it. right wing scum has (surprise!) destroyed this country. and the fucking ghouls are STILL getting fat feasting off its corpse. it's time to stomp these loathsome fascist cockroaches deep into the pavement once and for all. although i suppose i should look at the bright side: at least some billionaire asshole just got richer...
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