The NYPD Ticket Fixing Scandal case. An overview of the case, what happened, who was involved, how did these officers get caught, what code of ethics did they violate, what was the Court decision, how...

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NYDP TICKET FIXING SCANDAL
Table of Contents
Overview of the Case    3
Incidents Occurred    3
People Involved    4
Ways The people got Trapped    6
Code of Ethics Violated    7
Court’s Decision    8
Conclusion    10
References    11
Overview of the Case
Ticket fixing refers to the practice of the incident in which the public officials destroy a pending traffic ticket in favor of a friend or a family member. The New York Police Department face a scandal in which the police officers were accused of having ties with the drug dealer. Multiple sources reported the deliberate association of NYPD cops in ticket-fixing. This particular incident has been a scandal that was unfolded in the media where there were reported multiple internal leaks within the New York police department in various investigations. In this incident, the officials of NYPD of internal affairs tampered with a raid on 12 precincts in order to collect their summonses as evidence. A number of NYPD officials are also accused of illegal ticket-fixing against huge sums. After the prosecutors’ flag hundreds of cops for fixing the tickets for friends and family a decade ago the cops at work were supposed to get an extra level of scrutiny. It was inducted in the investigations that officials did not help the prosecutors to secure convictions against the people who were charged with the position of illegal guns. Instead in such an aspect the officers made dubious statements about the incidents and tried to save the convicted people. It was more evident because hundreds of officers were also found to be a secret roster of the officers whose cases are supposed to get an extra level of scrutiny by the prosecutors.
Incidents Occurred
The department was charged with spikes in the cases that the cops were possibly trying to help their friends, family and were engaged in illegal connection in return for certain number of sums. It was effective to know that as many as 400 officers were facing the disciplinary measures for engage in cases by losing paper work and missing out court dates. It was also found that some officers were also suspected of dealing drugs and asking a fellow officer to take care of a summon for him.
It is evident to know that there are wide range of incidence that effectively and metamorphically indicated the ticket fixing aspects by the NYPD officials. The investigation was mainly conducted behind the closed doors and the media was not able to reveal the details of the scandals in proper bits and pieces. There were multiple internal links throughout the investigation in which the evidence was tampered. The Bronx Grand Jury also behind deliberations where some officers were indicted of corruption charges that were related to ticket fixing.
In one of the incidents of 62-year-old New York Police Department officer Robert McGee attempted suicide because of the psychological impact on the police officers. It was also reported in the investigations that the ticket fixing scandals had evidences of bribery and misconducts against the individual officer who have been closed through plea deals. It was also found that hundreds of officers were found to be associated with the convicted people and prevented the officials for jeopardizing the cases. It was also found that the prosecutors disclosed about damaging information about arresting the convicts and the disclosure requirement was not challenged in the court.
There were also certain incidents that sprawled up during the investigation in which the police union was helping the officers to fix tickets issued by the family and friends for speeding, illegal parking, or other traffic offenses. It was also found that around 664 incidents were helped by the prosecutors that might rest too heavily on the officers and these ties to the scandal raised questions about the conduct and the credibility of NYPD.
People Involved
A number of NYPD officers were involved in the scandal and it was deliberated about 17 officers have been indicted throughout the investigation. As many as 400 New York Police Department officers were engaged in the scandal since 1993. The internal investigations in 2008 reportedly found that more than 600 Police officers were engaged in illegal activities behind closed doors. There have been a series of multiple internal leaks in which more than 12 police officers were involved. 17 New York Police Department officials were also reportedly involved in facing charges for ticket-fixing and the ticket-fixing scandal was effective in the department since it broke in April 2010.
Approximately it was found that 40 police officials were also expected to bleed guilty to ticket-fixing charges and many of them were likely to retire from the force in aspect to save their pensions. The Internal Affairs Bureau also found in a sting operation that the officials were secretly found in the phone conversations that the number of police officers had previously confessed to the ticket-fixing in an unrelated drunk driving case. A group of copper also found this for 6 domestic violence cases that...