New York City on Tuesday reached a $175,000 settlement with a Staten Island police officer who said he had been a victim of retaliation for giving traffic tickets to people with connections to the upper echelons of the Police Department.
The officer, Mathew Bianchi, filed a lawsuit against the city last May. The suit said that he had been transferred out of his precinct’s traffic unit after Jeffrey Maddrey, then the chief of patrol and now the department’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, asked that he be punished. Officer Bianchi had issued a ticket to a woman with whom Chief Maddrey was said to be friends, according to the suit.
“This settlement is a vindication for our client, allowing him to close this chapter and continue his service with the N.Y.P.D.,” John Scola, Officer Bianchi’s lawyer, said on Tuesday. “We hope that Officer Bianchi’s courage and this decisive outcome will inspire other officers to come forward as whistle-blowers.”
What decent cops?
The ones fighting against corruption on the inside, like this person just did. Come on Squid.
What corruption has he fought that hasn’t affected him personally?
The corruption of those courtesy cards. For which he got retaliated against. And that he brought a lawsuit over, which brings the corruption to light.
I’d say that’s fighting corruption from the inside.
Take a break. It must be tiring being this deliberately obtuse.
Insulting me doesn’t change the fact that he only supposedly fought the corruption when he got demoted. Or do you think that’s the only corruption he ever witnessed as a cop in Staten Island?
According to the post description, he was punished AFTER he ticketed the higher ranking cop’s friend. Where did you pick up the being punished before part?
That doesnt affect what they said. Ticketing a cops friend wasnt fighting corruption, only fighting retaliation for it is
so what else was he supposed to do?
Im not claiming he shouldnt have done either. Im saying that on its own isnt fighting corruption. So its not proof that he cared about corruption before it personally affected him.
Did you read the article?
In my experience, he doesn’t read anything beyond the comment he’s replying to.
Bummer, man.
There’s your failing.
I’m not saying he did or did not see whatever supposed corruption you’re saying is going on.
However, you’re trotting out the usual ACAB trope when you have the same level of knowledge as anyone else - that is to say, fuck all. There’s little to support your assertion of a “fact” here at all.
I’m not arsed one way or another whether you like cops or not, but at least make your arguments make sense.
I’m not aware of any headlines stating that. How do you know this is the only corruption they fought?
Seems like he was doing his job professionally and ignoring requests by superiors to give special treatment, all the way to reprisals and getting demoted because he wouldn’t stoop to their corruption… Isn’t that what we want with cops?
ACAB, except the ones actually fighting and fixing this stuff. We need good ones and should encourage them.
Why should we assume he ever did anything other than what we’re told he did. He fought and fixed something because he was personally punished by it.
The cops that fight the corruption that doesn’t affect them don’t stay cops for long.
What are you talking about? He fought against special treatment BEFORE getting reprisals. He was punished after treating people equally, not before.
The settlement was about the reprisals he faced for sticking to his guns and NOT becoming corrupt. You should be mad at the pig in charge who pushed for the demotion, not the guy doing the right thing.
Wtf, Squid. You are being unusually unreasonable right now, man.