NYPD officer fired after ticketing dead people, blames quotas
#1
NYPD officer fired after ticketing dead people, blames quotas
This is awesome
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/09/12/n...blames-quotas/
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/09/12/n...blames-quotas/
A New York City Police Department officer has been fired for a ticket-writing scheme after 17 years on the force. According to The New York Post, Paul Pizzuto wrote summonses to drivers he'd ticketed in the past, some of whom had been deceased for years by the time the citations arrived in the mail. Pizzuto says he started writing the fake tickets after command told him he needed to start writing more on top of the 125 to 150 he was already issuing. Colleagues raised concerns when they realized Pizzuto never showed up in court for the additional summonses.
The former officer pled guilty to three counts of falsifying business records earlier this year. The NYPD, meanwhile, denies pushing Pizzuto for more tickets and accuses him of trying to pad his pay with his efforts. Pizzuto claims he was improperly fired because the NYPD didn't give him a hearing over the matter. The police department, meanwhile, says he was let go because the citations were an "oath of office" offense, meaning Pizzuto wasn't entitled to a hearing.
Pizzuto was one of three officers busted in the scandal, and he not only lost his job, he received 150 hours of community service along with a docked pension.
The former officer pled guilty to three counts of falsifying business records earlier this year. The NYPD, meanwhile, denies pushing Pizzuto for more tickets and accuses him of trying to pad his pay with his efforts. Pizzuto claims he was improperly fired because the NYPD didn't give him a hearing over the matter. The police department, meanwhile, says he was let go because the citations were an "oath of office" offense, meaning Pizzuto wasn't entitled to a hearing.
Pizzuto was one of three officers busted in the scandal, and he not only lost his job, he received 150 hours of community service along with a docked pension.
#4
At least your state doesn't have low level highway patrol officers issuing speeding tickets(like 90+mph) to state senate members. Then later the highway patrol captains are doing some political favors for the senators and getting the tickets "fixed" and removed from court dockets like they never existed.
This was a HUGE scandal in Tennessee. It really exposed how cronyism and the politically connected ruled the top levels of the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
This was a HUGE scandal in Tennessee. It really exposed how cronyism and the politically connected ruled the top levels of the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
#5
Lexus Fanatic
Pizzuto says he started writing the fake tickets after command told him he needed to start writing more on top of the 125 to 150 he was already issuing.
The NYPD, meanwhile, denies pushing Pizzuto for more tickets and accuses him of trying to pad his pay with his efforts.
#8
Lexus Fanatic
It's not lying to say that there are dishonest cops out there....or that there are indeed sometimes quotas. But, in this particular case, it appears to be a He/She said conflict...and no other officer that we know of, on this particular police force (NYPD), seems to be backing Pizzuto story's in public. In this particular case, as I see it, the NYPD's position, at the moment, seems more credible than Pizzuto's. That could change, however, under different circumstances.
#9
At least your state doesn't have low level highway patrol officers issuing speeding tickets(like 90+mph) to state senate members. Then later the highway patrol captains are doing some political favors for the senators and getting the tickets "fixed" and removed from court dockets like they never existed.
This was a HUGE scandal in Tennessee. It really exposed how cronyism and the politically connected ruled the top levels of the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
This was a HUGE scandal in Tennessee. It really exposed how cronyism and the politically connected ruled the top levels of the Tennessee Highway Patrol.