An Idealistic Cop, a Forbidden Ticket and a Police Career on the Brink
www.nytimes.com
Mathew Bianchi took routine traffic stops seriously and handed out tickets regardless of people’s connections within the Police Department. He says he was punished for it.

The woman didn’t put up much of a fuss, Bianchi said. She didn’t have a courtesy card and she didn’t drop any names. Bianchi wrote her a ticket and sent her on her way.

Two days later, Bianchi was transferred out of the traffic unit and placed back on patrol. In a lawsuit he filed against New York City, he says that a supervisor told him that Jeffrey Maddrey, then the chief of patrol and now the department’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, requested that he be transferred. Maddrey, Bianchi was told, was friends with the woman he had stopped.

  • @[email protected]English
    25•10 months ago

    There are soo many things wrong in this story…

    Why are there “get out of jail free”-cards? Why can they be in passed to random friends? Why are people abusing this privilege to run red lights?

    But the thing that really grinds my gears:

    Why not just accept the ticket and have it cancelled afterwards (knowing your privilege), Why the need to “have them fired” for doing their job? What kind of asshole goes out of their way to do that? Whatever nuisance it is to be stopped randomly is nothing against the time wasted to pursue the person who just did their job. It’s pure revenge hate. That alone ought to be a crime. Lifetime sentence. No appeal.

    • snooggums
      16•10 months ago

      Well the thing is, these people are arrogant pieces of shit whose only enjoyment appears to be flaunting the power of their connections to do whatever they want and get revenge on anyone who inconveniences them in any way.

    • @HappycamperNZ
      3•10 months ago

      I would think they exist for things like EMTs, volunteer fighters who need to get to the station, or midwife on call.

      But we all know they don’t end up there.