Officer Pedro Serrano

[MrScorpio]

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: This week, NYPD cop Pedro Serrano has been testifying about the unfair targeting of Blacks and Hispanics for New York’s Stop and Frisk. To support his case, Serrano unveiled a video recording of superior ordering him to stop and frisk Black and Latino males between the ages of 14 and 21. This cop is very, very brave.

Good cops don’t turn a blind eye to the corruption and racism being practiced by their fellow officers.

http://mogulcity.tumblr.com/post/103553760029/in-case-you-missed-it-this-week-nypd-cop-pedro

http://nymag.com/news/features/pedro-serrano-2013-5/

[SummerSnow]

1. bravo officer Serrano

[Thespian2]

21. Looking for a hero?

Here's one.

[tularetom]

2. It's probably true that only 1% of cops are corrupt and/or brutal

The problem is that the other 99% refuses to do anything about them. You can depend on them to close ranks around the rotten apples in any given situation.

Appears as though Officer Serrano has the testicular fortitude to buck that tradition so god bless him.

[Scuba]

17. Covering up corruption is corruption. Do you not understand that?

[tularetom]

24. I understand what you are saying but I disagree

If a Walmart employee puts up with the crappy pay and rotten working conditions and fails to speak out about it, does that make him complicit in the misdeeds of the owners of Walmart?

My son was a cop for about five years before he got fed up with the bully culture he experienced there and bailed. He was very vocal and he was marginalized because of it. But some of his colleagues had families to feed and even though they disagreed with the department's us against them mentality, they kept their mouths shut and tried their best to do their job.

They may have been "good Germans" but they weren't corrupt, just weak.

[BobbyBoring]

25. Yes

The Walmart worker is complicit. People will abuse others as long as the others put up with it.

[NanceGreggs]

36. Ah, yes ...

As we all know, people who work at Walmart do so because they want to be 'complicit' with employers who refuse to pay a living wage. Undoubtedly, these same workers have consistently turned down much better-paying jobs that are abundantly available to them, because they'd rather work for slave wages.

If the only job you can get is at Walmart, you should simply refuse to work. You should stay home and watch your kids go hungry, watch the unpaid bills pile up, and wait for the electricity/phone/heat to be shut off due to lack of payment.

Then, when you finally get evicted, you can panhandle on the street and brag to everyone how you'd rather see your family eating out of dumpsters than be 'complicit" by taking a job at Walmart, despite the fact that it was the only job you could find.

Being "boring" seems to be the least of your problems, Bobby. I'd say your arrogance, lack of empathy, and lack of compassion for those in dire straits, who see even a crappy paycheque as preferable to NO paycheque at all, far surpass your inability to be interesting or amusing.

What an absolutely disgusting post.

[Scuba]

33. Get back to me when WalMart starts murdering people and their employees cover it up.

[Flatulo]

30. Not to pick nits, but it's a lot more than 1%. The whole culture is fucked up.

The average cop believes the the people they're supposed to be protecting are, at best, assholes, and at worst, barely human.

We need some leadership at the top on this issue. At the very least, congressional hearings on police tactics. When being killed by the police is the leading cause of death in some places, we need a shakeup from top to bottom. That includes the FBI and the DEA.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. brave man

[freshwest]

4. Anyone wearing the uniform should support Serrano. He's looking out for everyone.

[Cha]

5. Thank you MrScorpio and Officer Pedro Serrano

[Taurusny22]

6. I worked in this precinct for 9 years during the eighties

It is still my home away from home. Most everything Officer Serrano said is true. Except I never had a boss ordering me to make a stop. I knew what reasonable suspicion was. It was a lot busier than the time PO Serrano spent there. There is a quota and it was very easy to meet.

[Logical]

9. I bet your idea of it and the normal persons is different. nt

[Logical]

10. Also, here is how good the NYC police "Reasonable Suspicion" talents are.....

In 2013, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 191,558 times.
169,252 were totally innocent (88 percent).

So the NYC police are really really bad at detecting if someone has, is or is about to commit a crime.

Sounds like to me they just stop anyone with no reason at all. No wonder it was "very east to meet" the quota.

Now if they made an arrest > 50% of the time I would give them a break. But 12% of the time they were correct is disgusting.

And I am sure you wonder why people don't trust the NYC police stop and search policy.

[cstanleytech]

11. 88% were stop and frisks? That does seem excessive.

[Logical]

12. That just proves that they use no criteria to make their decision. Just let me find some black....

People to search and maybe will find a bag of marijuana and then we can take them downtown the fingerprint them and have them on file.

And people don't care because it doesn't bother them.

[Taurusny22]

37. I left the 4-0 Pct 10 years before PO Serrano got there

Things were different then. Bosses gave pressure to give summonses but not 250's. My teams percentage was close to a fifty percent success rate. But we all worked there for years and we knew the people in the neighborhood. And we knew the criminals too. I used to look for reasons not to give a summons. If the person had a job I would let him slide If I saw a local drug dealer I would write until my pen ran out of ink. The drug dealer didn't care=he wasn't going to traffic court anyway, and my captain thinks I'm a superstar.

[Logical]

38. Sounds like you were reasonable. nt

[Jack Rabbit]

7. K/R

!!

[DeSwiss]

8. Good.

- Too bad he won't be on the job long.

K&R

[Flatulo]

31. Sadly, he may not be drawing breath much longer, either.

[Lifelong Protester]

13. K & R for a brave truth teller.

[Rex]

14. Good, am I wrong or is racial profiling illegal?

Thank you officer for coming forward and exposing it.

[pocoloco]

18. Racial profiling is illegal

but profiling using various other criteria is not, and very effective, witness how quick
Boston bomber no.2 was picked out of a surveillance tape.

[Hoppy]

15. He'd better watch his ass.

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Go on the googletubes, This American Life and download the story of the N.Y.C. cop who recorded is supervisor giving a quota on traffic tickets.

He gotta know, "Snitches get stitches."

[Sienna86]

16. There are good cops

He's a brave man. Good for him.

[Dr. Xavier]

19. I wish him well but

don't expect much to change except for his employment status. For those of you who are too young to remember, read the book, 'Serpico'. Don't see the movie, Pacino was great (as usual) but the movie is sh!t compared to the book.

[RedCappedBandit]

20. Finally, a good apple.

[Overseas]

22. K&R. Glad he has testified.

[Spirochete]

23. Finally - a stand-up guy!

I liked him in Major League, too...

[frylock]

26. much respect

knr

[olddots]

27. I believe there are lots of good cops

That are afraid of the gang they joined without seeing how bad it has become .

[Iggo]

35. There are probably a lot of (basically) good men and women who WANT to be good cops.

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[Spitfire of ATJ]

28. A lot of cops are blindly authoritarian and become robots.

[noiretextatique]

29. Thank you, Officer Serrano

and please...watch you back.

[Terra Alta]

32. He's a good cop.

Hope he doesn't get any retaliation from this.

[Iggo]

34. Finally! A good cop!