Fired NYPD discrimination investigator shared racist rants online, records show James Kobel used his work laptop and iPad to make the disturbing racial remarks Former NYPD Deputy Inspector James Kobel attempted to cover up his racist rants by lying on several occasions to investigators. According to the NY Daily News, it was recently discovered that he used his work laptop and iPad to make disturbing racial remarks. Kobel, who tried to retire before he was fired back in February, made hundreds of racist statements targeting public figures and mocked those who were killed due to police violence. “Yes, the urban ghetto types. 25,000 years of evolution continues to elude these poor unfortunate creatures,” Kobel wrote in one post. “If they can’t smoke it, drink it, f**k it or steal it, these savages destroy it,” he wrote in another.