Constitutional Law

NYPD has some serious problems

When an attorney sets up a webpage to advertise his willingness to represent officers suing NYPD after being sanctioned for failure to meet quotas or for complaining of corruption, things must be getting pretty serious. And here's a pdf of the latest lawsuit's complaint. It alleges that the officer was sanctioned for failure to generate 20 traffic summons a month, that he was ordered to approach and detail people sitting on steps in a high crime area, to arrest them if he heard them cuss, and that after he complained to Internal Affairs he was harassed, stalked, and thrown into a mental institution for six days, based on false reports.

If any measurable part of the allegations are provable, I could see a jury writing some very long numbers on a verdict form....

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on September 28, 2010 (boomark / email).