This come as a shock to many, but the few who has gone through the mis-representation of NYPD knows all to well. A corrupt ex-undercover cop says NYPD supervisors paid detectives extra overtime for hard-drug busts, creating a covert reward system for cocaine and heroin arrests. Undercover Officers taking down a crack suspects routinely got two or three hours of overtime as payback, ex-cop Stephen Anderson testified in a Brooklyn courtroom.
Ignorant but brave ex cop was questioned by Justice Gustin Reichbach “So giving you overtime for a crack cocaine arrest is a reward for the nature of the crime … would that be a fair statement?” Supprisely Anderson respond ”Yes, that’s fair to say,”. smh
“flaking” suspects – cop talk for planting cocaine on innocent victims. Although Anderson didn’t say so directly, the system provided rogue cops with a financial incentive to fabricate cocaine and heroin busts.
Anderson also testifies he first filed phony paperwork on March 15, 2005 – his “training day” as an undercover narcotics detective on the streets of Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Paired with another allegedly corrupt cop, Anderson filled out paperwork taking credit for a drug buy made by his partner.
He also provided multiple accounts of lying to grand juries, falsifying police reports and fabricating the circumstances of drug busts in Brooklyn and Queens.
Anderson said he never questioned the culture of corruption because he feared ruining his career. But will rather ruin regular citizens life and careers. ”I didn’t want to get, as I said, blacklisted from other undercovers, where I wouldn’t be able to go out with my teams, or other undercovers wouldn’t want to work with me,” he said.
Anderson said undercover cops also routinely swiped police funds used for drug buys. A typical scam involved taking $100, spending just $50 and pocketing the rest, he said.
Source – nydailynews.com
