Crime & Punishment NY style 1-10-2019

10. January 2019                  Crime & Punishment NY style

In an explosive new investigation a group of courageous officers from the New York Police Department expose corrupt police practices targeting African Americans and other minorities in establishing racial quotas and retaliating against officers who speak out. The group, made up of predominantly of African-Americans and Latinos, known as the ”NYPD 12”, chose to risk their reputations and careers to confront their bosses illegal quotas system. A film, called “Crime + Punishment”, follows their epic battle to root out systemic corruption against tremendous odds. It has just been short listed for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. The “NYPD 12” filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court to seek damages and demand changes. The suit claimed the NYPD strayed from their mandate to help people and instead demanded the rank and file meet establish bogus arrest quotas unconcerned that such actions severely impacted the lives of those arrested.

In spite of massive lawsuits in the past exposing gross police misconduct costing the city millions of dollars in lawsuits little has changed.  Perhaps “NYPD 12” might make a difference.