NYPD fails to check who actually lives in this appartment, kicks out family anyways

[DetlefK]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/nypd-gets-sued-after-kicking-wrong-family-out-of-home/

Bueno’s ordeal began before she even got to the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City. Police say a confidential informant purchased crack at her future apartment twice in January 2015. A subsequent search turned up crack, weapons and $21,500.

Bueno and her family moved into the apartment months later, in August 2015.

On Dec. 11, a Friday, Bueno returned home after picking up her sons — ages 6 and 15 — from school to find a stack of legal papers and two neon-colored stickers taped to her door saying anyone who entered would be arrested. She was told to come to court the following Tuesday.

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Bueno’s suit alleges that the NYPD did not even bother to contact New York City Housing Authority to find out if their targets still lived in the home they were asking a judge to close — despite filing the request 10 months after the search. The NYPD still claimed the apartment “is currently being operated, occupied and used illegally.”

A police spokesman declined to comment.

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Rather than apologizing for the mistake and dropping the case, the NYPD’s attorney dragged it on for three months in an effort to get Bueno to sign a settlement waiving her right to sue, the lawsuit says. She refused.

[Bradical79]

1. Fucking corrupt idiots

Make a stupid mistake, make it worse by wrecking peoples' lives in an attempt to make it seem as if you did nothing wrong, and continue to turn your police department into a national embarassment. Good call guys.

[avebury]

2. If I were on the jury and heard that "the NYPD’s attorney dragged it on for three

months in an effort to get Bueno to sign a settlement waiving her right to sue, the lawsuit says" I would think that would send the dollar amount of the award skyward.

[KamaAina]

3. As you are well aware, this is not an isolated incident.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027601012

Time for the Daily News to unleash one of its patented covers on these g.d. pigs!