At least 300 NYPD officers who
committed fireable offenses on the job from 2011 through 2015 --
including lying, cheating, stealing and assaulting civilians -- were
allowed to keep their jobs, an investigation by BuzzFeed News has found.
The
news website combed through hundreds of pages of the notoriously secret
internal NYPD files, leaked to them by a source who was kept anonymous
by the site and verified through more than 100 phone calls, visits to
officers' homes, interviews with prosecutors and a review of court
records.
One officer in the Bronx
was accused of viciously beating a man with his police baton after the
man insulted him; the man sustained a gash that required 12 staples to
close, according to BuzzFeed News. The same officer was also accused of
falsely arresting another person, assaulting yet another and fabricating
evidence against a fourth.
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Source: NBC News
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