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http://www.inflexwetrust.com/2011/10/25/ticket-fix-cop-jose-ramos-was-a-gamblin-man/

By now ClockTowerTenants may have heard the discouraging news but if not, this is just awful.

I’ve been a big fan and public supporter of our 40th Precinct, especially after a ClockTowerTenant was mugged last year and the 40th turned out for us in spades. At the time I thanked them for that support.

http://clocktowertenants.com/2010/11/thanks-to-very-busy-40th.html

Now comes word from the New York Times of an indictment charging 16 officers, many from our 40th, with such pervasive corruption it pains me to even type this. Some of this is low level ticket fixing and crap like that. Other charges are more serious.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/nyregion/in-ticket-fixing-scandal-16-officers-to-be-charged.html

But most egregious, apparently, is Officer Jose Ramos currently being held in lieu of $500,000 bail. Officer Ramos is subject to an unbelievable series of indictments including associating with a drug dealer, selling and using marijuana to settle a debt, tipping off others to wiretaps, a stolen electronics scheme, agreeing to deliver a large amount of heroin using his police cruiser, insurance fraud and even dumbass stuff like selling counterfeit CD’s and DVD’s.

NYPost

You’ve gotta be a really bad guy to rip off Justin Beiber. 

But it gets a lot worse, it appears to go right up through the ranks of PBA union leadership including two Sergeants and even one Lieutenant in Internal Affairs, (!) someone I met at a Community Board meeting several months ago. The sad indications are this is likely a culture of corruption so institutionalized it’s hard to believe other officers not listed in the indictment didn’t actually know what was going on.

http://www.copshelpcops.com

To say I’m disappointed is an understatement. 

Officer Ramos is quoted in a wiretap as saying he “stopped caring about the law a long time ago.” 

Oh really? Well I have a message to our 40th.

Many of you do fine work and we appreciate that, and the accused are innocent of these charges until proven guilty and I really hope they are innocent. 


But if any of this leads to plea deals or convictions be advised that SoBro residents will understandably embrace and extend your lousy culture of “whatever we can get away with.”

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