As many as 40 NYPD officers, including prominent officials at the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, could be indicted in the ticket-fixing probe as early as this week by a Bronx grand jury. "The ones you'll see indicted are ones who went further than just taking care of a ticket for a friend," a source tells the Daily News, "It goes beyond courtesy." This includes PBA officials like Joe Anthony, who was caught on tape taking care of summonses, as well as Officer Salvador Duran, whose credibility in a murder trial was successfully challenged after revelations of his ticket fixing. The suspect walked.
Relations between the DA's office and the police are particularly strained, with another source saying, "It's never been this bad. Guys are unhappy with the [DA's office] and they're making it known. They're not necessarily cooperating the way they used to." This includes policemen purposefully skipping meetings with prosecutors and delaying investigations of pending cases. Maybe they just need to lighten up and spend a night in the Delta box?
In addition to the indicted cops, more than 100 others could face internal reprisals for ticket-fixing, and comparisons to the Dirty Thirty scandal of the early '90s are already being made. So now the question is: what other word to describe "corrupt" rhymes with "140?"
