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.”
He’s still a cop though, right? So he’s learned nothing.
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!
The ones fighting against corruption on the inside, like this person just did. Come on Squid.
Riiiiight, is that before or after Dread/robocop arc?
I bet you believe in civil coups being realistic too?
Ah, sounds like that traffic stop started with, “Do you know who I am?”
No, but maybe I’ll find out when you hand me your driver’s license, registration, and proof of insurance like I asked…
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.
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.
He better watch his back. Wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if he was suddenly and unexpectedly taken out by a “random” perp…
If Cops got MORE Taxpayer Dollars they wouldn’t Need to Punish Officers who Ticket People!
