Post by bistro on May 12, 2013 16:13:28 GMT -5
NYPD whistle-blowers testify at stop-frisk trial
By TOM HAYS and COLLEEN LONG
NEW YORK (AP) — After Officer Pedro Serrano decided to testify in federal court about what he sees as wrongdoing within the New York Police Department, a rat sticker appeared on his locker.
That was the least of his problems.
Serrano claims he's been harassed, micromanaged and eventually transferred to a different precinct and put on the overnight shift.
"It hasn't been a picnic," he said in an interview this week. "They have their methods of dealing with someone like me."
Serrano and other whistle-blowers took the stand in a civil rights case challenging some of the 5 million streets stops made by police in the past decade using a tactic known as stop and frisk. They believe illegal quotas are behind some wrongful stops of black and Hispanic men.
"A lot of people told me not to come forward because of what would happen — they said the department would come after me," Serrano said. "But I've been thinking about it since 2007. I felt I couldn't keep quiet." <more>
news.yahoo.com/nypd-whistle-blowers-testify-stop-frisk-trial-155010119.html
Rat sticker, now that is the way to support courage to self police the cop shop.
By TOM HAYS and COLLEEN LONG
NEW YORK (AP) — After Officer Pedro Serrano decided to testify in federal court about what he sees as wrongdoing within the New York Police Department, a rat sticker appeared on his locker.
That was the least of his problems.
Serrano claims he's been harassed, micromanaged and eventually transferred to a different precinct and put on the overnight shift.
"It hasn't been a picnic," he said in an interview this week. "They have their methods of dealing with someone like me."
Serrano and other whistle-blowers took the stand in a civil rights case challenging some of the 5 million streets stops made by police in the past decade using a tactic known as stop and frisk. They believe illegal quotas are behind some wrongful stops of black and Hispanic men.
"A lot of people told me not to come forward because of what would happen — they said the department would come after me," Serrano said. "But I've been thinking about it since 2007. I felt I couldn't keep quiet." <more>
news.yahoo.com/nypd-whistle-blowers-testify-stop-frisk-trial-155010119.html
Rat sticker, now that is the way to support courage to self police the cop shop.