In New York City's criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. That is unless you know the new mayor ;-)
A member of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's transition team who had two outstanding warrants was arrested Monday night after a traffic stop but was spared a night in jail in a case in which the mayor contacted a top police official, New York Police Department officials said.
Mr. de Blasio called Deputy Chief Kim Royster, a top official in the NYPD's press office, shortly after two police officers pulled over Bishop Findlayter as he drove a 2012 Lincoln sedan at 11:21 p.m. at the southeast corner of Clarkson Avenue and East 92nd Street in Brooklyn, officials said.
De Blasio spokesman Phil Walzak said the mayor reached out to the deputy chief to "get clarification on word that there had been an arrest of a respected local clergyman."...
John Jay College professor Eugene O'Donnell, a former NYPD officer and prosecutor, said he wasn't "aware of any patrol guide provision that would allow" Deputy Inspector Lehr to release anyone wanted on a bench warrant. "Every day people get dragged through the system for technical reasons and spend time in jail, but that's the system we live in," he said.
Wall Street Journal
11 comments:
doink doink
It's going to be an interesting and certainly crappy four years for NYC.
Where is Francis Reagan when NYC needs him?
It's de Blasio time.
That's how he do.
Bratton is a senile whore.
I see NYC politics is reverting to the historical mean--shades of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall, lol.
Oh, well, I no longer have a place in Manhattan. Let the progressives sort out their own shit.
The "We can do whatever the hell we want because we won" thing seems to have seized the progressives from the national down to the local level.
I'm glad that I live in the woods.
So the warrants were over a failure-to-appear-in-court on a bullshit political arrest at a protest? Unless that earlier arrest was for some sort of assault or serious breach of the peace, I'm officially unimpressed with this. Sounds like political juice undid a mess caused by political juice in the first place.
Apparently he has no license also? Couldn't tell if that was because he didn't have it on him or he doesn't have one.
That's a bit sticky if he does not have one, period.
Little people take drivers tests and renew their licenses.
Lem, Brilliant. I linked to it and I posted it over at Insty for you.
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