New York Detective Put on Desk Duty After Tirade With Uber Driver

[LiberalElite]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/nyregion/new-york-detective-put-on-desk-duty-after-tirade-with-uber-driver.html?_r=0

"A veteran New York police detective has been placed on desk duty for an angry, profanity-laced tirade he delivered Monday to an Uber driver he confronted while driving on-duty in Manhattan.

Police Commissioner William J. Bratton’s move to punish the detective, Patrick Cherry, quickly comes at a time when the Police Department is working to retrain officers on how they interact with the public, such as refraining from cursing, to improve relations during a period of historically low crime."

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I love how the union president (who is not the loudmouth Lynch) says this guy shouldn't be judged by an "isolated incident" when Cherry has a history of such "isolated incidents" stretching back to 2001.

[Agschmid]

1. Should be let go, as the next step.

[LiberalElite]

2. At this point, after a dozen other incidents, yes. nt

[libdem4life]

3. Well, at least he got some type of smack down. Thank god/dess for the lowly cell phone. It's hard

to think that this has been happening for decades to American citizens, although I know that it has. God forgive us.

[Sparhawk60]

10. Amen to that

Cell phone cameras are going to be the the tool that brings down the police. I wonder how many Innocent men are in prison because cell phones were not around to record the scene?

[libdem4life]

14. My point, exactly. I'm from the decade when the book "1984" was written

sometime before that date, likely the early 70's...my college years. It predicted many of the things that have come about as overreach of authority and as a detriment to the people, but did not consider the potential of it affecting police brutality and other abuses by people in authority.

The dash cams and body cams are also powerful tools. The internet spreads these images so they Know there is a recording. It hasn't ended brutality, but it has surely brought it into the light of the information day.

Now security cameras also cover streets of cities...another of the doom predictors, yet if the cop shows are to be believed, they actually help police identify perpetrators.

It's the old "Goose and Gander" conversation.

As to the innocent in prison, I take a bit of heart at the DNA tests we now have that have exhonorated many.

On Edit: started the description of Big Brother, as in "always watching you"

[lpbk2713]

4. So now he gets to verbally abuse people over the phone?

Riiing ---- "Burglary Division, Det. Cherry. WTF do ya want asshole?"

[Oilwellian]

5. You just made me laugh out loud

Thanks!

[moondust]

6. Abusive asshole.

Another Eric Garner incident waiting to happen.

[KG]

7. historically low crime means cops got nothing better to do than hassle the citizenry....

[LiberalElite]

8. He was in the anti-terrorism task force-

I would have expected that to keep him busy.

[tblue37]

9. Look at his response to the driver's *polite* words:

.“Stop it with your mouth,” the detective says. “Stop it with your: ‘For what sir? For what sir?’ ”

The cop really is nasty.

[Downtown Hound]

11. If you worked for McDonald's and treated a customer like that, you'd be fired

If you worked in sales and treated a client like that, you'd be fired. If you were a mechanic and treated a customer like that, you'd either be fired or have no business. If you were a politician and spoke to voters like that, good luck in ever getting elected.

But a policeman? Seems like the only job in the world where you have a license to just run amok and be as big of an asshole as you can possibly be, but no matter what, your job is safe. And of all the jobs I can think, none of them require you to be more level headed and rational than a cop.

Go figure.

[bullwinkle428]

12. For those that didn't see the video, this guy was the classic authoritarian bully asshole.

I've had the misfortune of encountering these types a few times in my life, and they totally get off on throwing their weight around.

[Mariana]

13. Some of these guys are real slow.

Every one of these cops who gets recorded abusing citizens should be fired just for their idiocy, if they can't get done for the abuse. Any cop who hasn't figured out that everybody and his brother has a cellphone that can record video is just too fucking stupid to be in that position.

[libdem4life]

15. If they put all the bad cops on "desk duty", they'll have to start recruiting desks.