Your comment just proves how far removed you are reality in the private sector, the ability to understand right from wrong, and how much accountability matters in the real world.. Therein lies the problem with our modern-day policing agencies and their personnel.
Have to agree wholeheartedly with this Grammy!!
In the 'real world', a DWI can be a means to an end. And isn't it surprising that police who break the law are more protected than the general masses? Well, in the City of Schenectady and Rotterdam at least that's the case.
Again, Cuomo has his finger on the pulse of what's going on here. The Unions are more powerful than the Mayor, the Council and even above the law in many cases.
It needs to stop before we have "Beyond the Pines Part II" ....
GB - If you are asserting that you will automatically lose their job because of a DWI arrest, you are misinformed.
Misinformed? There are MANY jobs which terminate an employee with a DWI. If a truck driver or school bus driver loses their job for a DWI because they are a potential liability, surely a patrolman that spends mutch of their time driving and carrying a loaded weapon would be a greater risk.
I guess in the case of the drunk cop, the liability of his actions fall onto the taxpayer, where in private business that is money out of the owner or shareholders pockets.
In government, liabilities are not measured, they are explained away and an excuse to dig into the taxpayers pockets.
I know a friend who is an IT guy making six figures in a company of 1200. A DWI there means termination. Private sector has no time for law breakers and drunks, nor do they want the bad association and rep that the SPD and most policing agencies have brought on themselves.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
GB u know one person, that's a compelling argument.
You are such a mental midget. Hence your career choice as "chief intimidator" for the regime and status quo.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Back to the name calling - and you were doing do well for a few posts. Perhaps we could have children's version of this website. But then again - your behavior would be frowned upon by most children.
Okay, police should do whatever the hell they want and still stay on the job. People will stand in line to buy houses in a high crime city with an out-of-control, non-resident police force. BTW, this happened in Scotia but people are definitely blaming Schenectady and further destroying the reputation of this city, the city I live in but mostcops don't, and yes, I do resent this jackass criminal behavior on the part of cops which is destroying my home, but I resent the attempts to justify, condone, explain, or dismiss the untenable by people who don't even live here. Schenectady has a terrible, horrible name, and it is in large part, LARGE, due to the horrible behavior of its police. The mayor actually looked into dissolving the force! What a disgrace! We have to pay a commissioner to come in and attempt to clean it up, it is that bad! Yes, it is! There is no other reason for Bennett to have that job! None! So quit trying to tell us that black is white, day is night, it ISN'T so! SPD is a laughing stock. They do it to themselves.
Back to the name calling - and you were doing do well for a few posts. Perhaps we could have children's version of this website. But then again - your behavior would be frowned upon by most children.
You got that right!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
I noticed the Gazette’s April 30 article [“Shopkeeper’s drug charges dropped”] mentioned by name a store owner who had been framed by a “confidential informant” who worked for the police. Though it is alleged that the informant lied and used planted evidence to frame the store owner, the store owner’s name and business have been hurt from the charges (since dropped), while the informant’s name is protected. How is this just?
Silly Walter...The informant worked for the police. You can't libel the police in the newspaper, they are the good guys. It was just an honest mistake that destroyed a private citizens business. Police informants and the police themselves are immune to public scrutiny. It is the newspapers job to explain away police misconduct as an "isolated incident" or some other form of whitewashing.
He shouldn't blame the informant he should blame the policies that create these situations, you get some person facing serious time over some victimless crime of course they will do whatever to save their own a**.
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
I stopped trying to emulate the adults since they have done such a fine job running America (into the ground) and no one cares- so why should I give a fig?
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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