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NYPD Corruption Trial Focuses on Bad Narc Busts
October 24, 2011
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A New York city police narcotics detective gave a junkie crack cocaine in exchange for sexual favors in the latest revelation in an ongoing police corruption trial.
Melanie Perez testified against detective Jason Arbeeny, one of eight Brooklyn Narcotics South undercover officers charged of misconduct.
The trial has already yielded troubling testimony about officers "flaking"—planting drugs on subjects to meet arrest quotas and get overtime pay.
The city has paid out more than $1.2 million to settle false arrest lawsuits involving the detectives. Nearly 300 drug arrests had to be tossed in Brooklyn and Queens, most of them made by Brooklyn South narcs tainted by their false testimony. In one case, Det. Arbeeny handed out $750 from his own pocket to settle the case.
Earlier this month, former NYPD Det. Stephen Anderson testified that he and other officers "flaked" four men in Queens in 2008. The detective testified that officers planting drugs on innocent people was common practice, a quick and easy way to boost arrest numbers.
Source: New York Daily News
Tags: NYPD, Officer Misconduct, Undercover Investigations, Drug Enforcement
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George @ 10/24/2011 1:37 PM
What the hell happened to godd old fashioned police work? I wish that I worked for a department that paid overtime. Now all the cases that these detectives have ever worked could be questioned and reopened. It's sad that an officer would make things up just to justify himself.
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John Weismiller @ 10/25/2011 10:30 AM
Reminds me of that Tom Seleck movie where a drug bust hit the wrong house (nearly identical address). To cover their screwup, cops "find" coke in Seleck's house, and their testimony sends him off to prison.
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