Unmarked police cars targeted for towing

[The Straight Story]

Unmarked police cars targeted for towing


NEW YORK, March 16 (UPI) -- Police detectives in New York said unmarked police cars have been towed by the department on at least 180 occasions.

Michael Palladino, head of the Detectives' Endowment Association, said tow operators with the New York Police Department's Internal Affairs Bureau have been meeting their daily quota of four tows by hauling away unmarked police cars, the New York Daily News reported Tuesday.

Palladino said most of the tows occurred while the cars were legally parked or double-parked out of necessity. He said the tows have taken place while police were working on important business, including the arrest of a murder suspect and escorting a witness to a crime scene.

"It's embarrassing," Palladino said. "It takes our detectives four to six hours, often on overtime, to get the car back. In the meantime, another detective has to be called to come pick up the detectives who are stranded, or that third detective has to drive to court, or wherever, with the other two detectives and wait in the car."

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/03/16/Unmarked-police-cars-targeted-for-towing/UPI-66271268772355/

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Maybe if the cops didn't feel the need to sneak around...

[ConservativeDemocrat]

9. Because it's criminal not to announce ahead of time...

...to a murder suspect that you are about to arrest him.

Have I got that right?

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[reggie the dog]

10. how else do you bust real criminals?

[FiveGoodMen]

11. Do you mean to tell me that all those marked police cars are busting fakes ones?

[reggie the dog]

15. how do you bust people taking bribes?

people trading child porn, sex abusers, people doing racketeering etc. if you do not use undercovers? There are some seriously dangerous people who must be busted and they are smart enough to not do anything in front of marked cars and uniformed officers.

[zonkers]

13. Contrarians rule the boards.

[no limit]

2. For some reason I have a hard time believing they were legally parked

[RedRocco]

3. got to meet the quota somehow

:shrug:

[Fumesucker]

4. Keystone..

[G_j]

5. good nt

[louis-t]

6. Maybe quotas are the problem.

Ya think?

[howaboutme]

7. Another thought.

Sounds as though it is the NYC taxpayers who are getting it here. This is pure incompetence and mismanagement but only the Detective's Endowment Association is complaining? Maybe that's the way some of them like it. It isn't like they are not getting paid, or getting more overtime and they are certainly are not doing backbreaking hard manual labor. Why isn't the NY mayor demanding that this end?

To quote to link: "It's embarrassing," Palladino said. "It takes our detectives four to six hours, often on overtime, to get the car back. In the meantime, another detective has to be called to come pick up the detectives who are stranded, or that third detective has to drive to court, or wherever, with the other two detectives and wait in the car."

[ORDagnabbit]

8. unmarked police cars.. one of those things that oughta be outlawed

[Echo In Light]

12. +1000

[951-Riverside]

14. GEE... I'm shocked.

Palladino is an idiot. If they don't want to be towed maybe they shouldnt park their unmarked vehicles illegally. I'm guessing in each case they left their cars completely unattended. The person towing the car has no way of knowing if that car he or she is towing belongs to a police officer conducting official business.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

16. So the detective has to wait six hours to get his car back

while collecting time-and-a-half for sitting around the impound yard?

Good work, if you can get it.

:hi: