according to the times acounts, some had automobiles denting the cars. several thousand officers blocking traffic in both directions. and the uniformed officers on site did virtually nothing to control the crowd. as recent as 2011 new york police officers rallied from ticket fixing to attempted robbery. the officers carrying signs, chanting slogans against the district attorney and then police commissioner ray kelly reportedly blocking and emp shoving members of the press. that s mr. lynch right there who you ve seen in the headlines recently. all of which gave the unfortunate impression that officers held themselves above the law. this context strikes me as pretty important. it s more the norm than an anomaly. that s right.
you can imagine. and police turned out and said we ought to fix tickets, we have been doing this for years. if that was not a working class things give them a free pass. i am not giving them a free pass, i am saying it s not that kind of structure you are talking about. let me help folks. there s a bunch of indictments in new york, and this gets to glenn s point. 16 indictments in the court and the bronx for an investigation that found 1 to $2 million in ticket fixing which is cops making tickets go away for friends and brothers and girlfriends, and when the indictments happened hundreds of cops showed up and notified the police union to go and cheer the people being indicted, because they said this is one of the things we do as cops, this is part of what we do, and good luck trying to do that if you