Daily News report on NYPD - 3/3/05

[Guest]

Anybody else see the front cover of the Daily News today? As a NYC Police Officer, this is quite an embarrasment. I hope this does not deter people's opinion of the NYPD....At least 95% of us are honest, hard-working PO's doing the right thing........

[Guest chief865]

I don't see how this would reflect on the current PO's rather than the top brass. For a few years now, its been known that the hiring process has become weak. I know if I wanted to join, I would be on immediately. You would think that the recruitment would be competitive. Sadly enough, the city can't keep up with the amount of people retiring. What's going to happen in the city 5-10 years from now (or less) if the integrity of the new PO's is questionable? Don't get me wrong, I think people deserve a second chance if they want to make a better life for themselves after a few "mistakes". The screening process needs to be improved and I believe that's what the article implied.

[COMMANDCHIEF 4]

I didn't see the news paper, but I am assuming that it's about the "quality" or lack there of , of the new members of the NYPD. I don't know if you remember something similar happened in DC years ago when Marion Barry was the Mayor. They were pushing through hires on that job and didn't complete the back ground investigations until the "officers" were already out in the field. They found several people wanted or with past convictions. It was not a pretty sight.

For the past several years, the NYPD has used practices that set the stage for disaster. Ask any member of the NYPD that has been on for more than 10 years and you will hear the same thing. It's not by coincidence that the first thing the cops on that job talk about is "how much tme they have left"

I'm by no means saying that all the cops on that job are substandard. And that the garbage that I have seen in the last few years may be the exception to the rule, but the only thing that seperates the NYPD and the Titanic is the fact that the Titanic had a band playing as it went down.

[grumpyff 1,159]

Hey FirstDue19, as a brother NYC P.O. its is an embarassment, but the PBA has known for a few years. It was obvious that the dept was pushing thru questionable candidates in order to make staffing levels in order to qualify for Federal funding. I think that after 9/11 the newspapers let it slide. Yes it is embarassing, but so is the city's contract offers, and our low pay. :oops: Your right though, the majority are honest, hard working people. =D> Unfortunately the rotten apples always get noticed. I have worked with several people who we could not figure out how they got hired, One was fired for lying under oath in a dept trial, another should have been after he tried to blow up the subway station. Yet we never hear about the good things we do in the course of a normal day.