Brickbat: NYPD Blue

A judge sentenced former New York City police officer Isaias Alicea to six months in prison after he was found guilty of 10 felony counts of filing a false instrument. Alicea arrested two men on drug charges after claiming he saw them involved in a sale in the lobby of a housing project. But security video later showed the two men never even came into contact with one another.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Hasn't that judge heard? All's fair in love and drug war.

[Snark Plissken]

No quoted text, doesn't count!

[Generic Stranger]

That rule's only for the AM and PM links.

[Snark Plissken]

Stop your sucking up to FoE. He'll turn on you, man, I've seen it happen.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Not true. I'm never for anyone in the first place.

[SomeGuy]

All is fair....6 months is all a cop has to serve but if it was a surf it would be 6-60 years!

[Ted S.]

but if it was a surf it would be 6-60 years!

You mean like Dunphy?

[dantheserene]

That was basically my thought as well. Sentencing should be equivalent to what the victims would have received if convicted, which would have been a little more than 6 months.

[Snark Plissken]

Mr. Alicea said he saw two men involved in a drug sale in a lobby of a housing project, the Manhattanville Houses, on Feb. 19, 2012. But the prosecutor assigned to the case requested surveillance video from the lobby that showed the two men never coming into contact with each other.

Apparently not all prosecutors are complete scumbags.

"Thank God for that videotape because Mr. Francis might be sitting in state prison" otherwise, the judge said. "Your actions were a deliberate violation of someone's rights, an innocent person's rights."

Unless you falsely accuse a man of rape, in which case the legal system is going to give you a free pass.

[WTF]

Makes you wonder how many people are in prison under similar circumstances where there was no video.

[Doctor Whom]

Or where there was, but someone mysteriously "misplaced" it.

[JidaKida]

Sometimes man you jsut have to roll with the punches. Wow.

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[Ted S.]

That cop beat the alt-text right out of the picture. 🙁

[croaker]

Someone tell me again how a law enforcement badge isn't a patent of nobility.