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.
She didn’t have a courtesy card
This shouldn’t be a thing.
It’s why the families of police aren’t worried with the current situation. They genuinely believe they are covered and above the law, the same as the actual officers themselves.
The outrage over not being treated as special is just a sign of the times and the complete tone deafness of these people. “None of this is a problem unless it affects me directly.”
No shit, traffic stops are supposed to be fishing exercises, basically stop and frisk with a pretext of not violating our rights. You’re not supposed to do that to friends, just Them.
This reminded me of the time when I got pulled over by my neighbor (who was a cop) shortly after I got my license as a kid. Our families were not particularly fond of each other but when he got up to my window he saw it was me and just turned around and stomped back to his cruiser and took off after yelling something like “Shit, it’s my neighbor’s kid”.
Didn’t say a single word to me then or afterwards and I always thought it was weird that he let me go when my mom had started shit with them in the past…
Lmao, that’s precisely why he went back. He knew what he was stepping into with your mom.
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.
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.
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.
The only thing that can stop a good cop: the raison d’être of the entire system in which he is working.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A red Mazda sped past a police officer’s unmarked car stationed at a tree-lined Staten Island intersection.
Bianchi was starting to view the cards as a different kind of symbol: of the impunity that came with knowing someone on the force, as if New York’s rules didn’t apply to those with connections.
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 is a prime example: When he faced departmental discipline last year, Adams vocally defended him, undermining the authority of Keechant Sewell, who was then the police commissioner.
But if Maddrey was a beneficiary of the culture of loyalty and brotherhood, Bianchi — beholden to his personal history, an unshakable morality, a stubborn refusal to get with the program, or some unknowable combination of character and circumstance — was a victim of it.
New York City, after twice delaying its response to his lawsuit, issued a reply last month in which it denied the vast majority of his allegations, including those related to Maddrey’s role in his transfer.
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