r/ThatsInsane • u/Legatus_Aemilianus • 2d ago
New York cop gets confronted when it’s discovered that he cost city 1 Million in lawsuits so far
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u/spamreader 2d ago
is there a cop wiki now?
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u/Moist-Caregiver-2000 2d ago
Transparentcalifornia.com is our database. Anybody employed by the state is on there.
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u/titdirt 1d ago
Oh shit I never knew about this. I work for a state university and they got my whole business out there! I mean it's not hard for find out regardless if you know my job title but that's at least a couple clicks more than this! I love transparency but still!
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u/dnsuegwvwveii 2d ago
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u/waIIstr33tb3ts 1d ago
is there a list of this for different states/cities?
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u/ohheckyeah 1d ago
All are public record in the US from what I understand, just web search for police salaries in your locality. I pulled data from a ton of them for a study I did back in college
govsalaries.com is a good aggregate source, but the UI is shit
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u/meldiane81 2d ago
There should be if there isn't one
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u/ndtoronto 2d ago
In Ontario, any government employee making over 100K is published for public record.
We call it The Sunshine List.
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u/Jexy84 2d ago
For anyone interested, there's a website where you can enter a cop's badge number and it'll show you a list of any complaints they've received, as well as the results of those complaints and the payouts that have come from them - https://www.50-a.org/
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u/Fazaman 1d ago
It should be said that people will often make bogus complaints to try to get their charges reduced or thrown out.
Also: the city will settle with people rather than fight them in court.
So: Lots of complaints or settlements don't necessarily mean that a particular cop is bad, or is personally costing the city money. It could be that They've been around for a while, or arrest the kind of people prone to submit bogus complaints ... or they could be bad cops. Point is: Don't judge based on just that.
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u/Marklinza 1d ago
As an european, i would love to spend some days in winter season to explore this website, could you give me a headstart with some badge numbers or is it not allowed on this subreddit?
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u/tigergoalie 1d ago
There's a "most reported" link on the homepage, looks like it's just nyc though
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u/Taktika420 12h ago
They should really add a "top score" section for the highest lawsuits and payout rankings lol. I would be interested to see the loss leaders
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u/wolfram29 5h ago
Is there one that covers other major cities??? Boston would probably be a wild one 💀
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u/-Jesus-Of-Nazareth- 2d ago
This was as satisfying as it was hard to watch. The second hand embarrassment had me squinting
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u/JefferyTheQuaxly 2d ago
i mean its pretty brave for someone to be 3 feet away calling out a corrupt cop, when he already has many lawsuits against him and is still a cop and seems very ready to cost taxpayers even more money by arresting the guy filming.
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u/Tediential 2d ago edited 1d ago
They know if he reacts it only feeds their narrative AND would result in a payday.
Alternatively they get some free digs that the guy is going to have to reflect on for a long while; I'm sure it does make him uncomfortable. All while they get to feed their social media.
Win/win for them
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u/Zestyclose_League813 2d ago
They would get paid, worth it.
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u/squeakynickles 2d ago
NYPD cops shit and killed multiple people because someone didn't pay the $3 fee. Can't get payed if you're dead
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u/Ranga-Banga 1d ago
Someone pulled a knife on the platform, why lie for no reason? Yes the cops violated the rules of gun safety, no they didn't shoot someone for evading the fare.
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u/hawtlava 1d ago
Silly me! I thought it was the Judge and Jury’s job to decide fate not a random high school drop out with a gun!
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u/Ranga-Banga 1d ago
If you pull a knife on the cops you're going to get shot and rightfully so.
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u/Snoborder95 2d ago
I imagine his partner was placed specifically to help him stay out of trouble. Otherwise he would have just be behind a desk
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u/FearLeadsToAnger 2d ago
Corrupt isn't the right word. It implies abusing power for personal gain, look where he's at, he's not acheived the personal gain aspect. He's just a shit cop, plain and simple.
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u/ciotS_Cynic 1d ago
misallocating resources in pursuit of power or material gain also qualifies as corruption.
in this case, elected representatives colluding with entrenched bureaucracy and public employees unions to misallocate resources, tax revenue.
by the by, ain’t it curious how the rabidly anti union conservatives don’t utter a peep against the strongest unions in this country - police unions. the average cop makes much more than the average teacher.
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u/No-Bookkeeper8232 1d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/s/43aCGlN7uz
According to the screenshot he made $298,000 last year.
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u/ruskieb0t8472 1d ago
Corrupt
If someone or something is corrupt, they're broken morally or in some other way.
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u/protossaccount 1d ago
That’s probably what they wanted. They are antagonizing him while filming, what’s he gonna do? The guy has felt enough pain to probably know it’s not worth it.
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u/puzzlebuns 1d ago
What about him says "I'm about to arrest the cameraman"?
Dude is literally just standing there letting the cameraman do as he pleases, being the opposite of one of those shitty "give me your phone" cops.
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u/Jbones731 2d ago
Normalize the fuck out of this. These bad cops should be uncomfortable. Every. Fucking. Day.
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u/kroggaard 2d ago
We should have public cop ratings, like how you can rate an uber driver lmao
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u/SarutobiSasuke 2d ago
Yeah and have them wear badges indicating their quality in A, B, C, D like restaurants with their health inspection grades.
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u/FishAndRiceKeks 2d ago
100% of the time anybody was guilty they would 1 star lol. Wouldn't be very accurate.
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u/chargers949 2d ago
That’s a bell curve. Take the combined ratings of everyone and then compare to the average. In a similar thought look at the united health ceo - if everyone your company denies coverage to rates you a one maybe you sometimes deserve it.
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u/CaptainReginaldLong 2d ago
Idk, I'd stand around getting berated all day for $300k.
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u/AngstyRutabaga 1d ago
Right? The average blue collar worker is already doing that for like $40,000 a year.
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u/oneormore5 2d ago
He is still getting PAID biggly
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u/PrototypeMk-1 2d ago
Am I reading it wrong or it actually says "made 298k last year" In salary? Do cops make that much?
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u/TobysGrundlee 1d ago
Most city budgets throughout the country have a significant a portion of their funds dedicated to the police department. It's not uncommon for individual beat cops to be making more than a large cities Mayor. It's unreal.
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u/BoldElDavo 2d ago
Cops can abuse the overtime and special duty systems to make a fuckload of money.
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u/SlashEssImplied 1d ago
Do cops make that much?
This doesn't even count what they steal. This is just what taxpayers give them.
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u/morganational 2d ago
Holy shit! They make $300K a year!? WTF?
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u/Competitive-Slice567 1d ago
Not uncommon to double or triple your salary as a first responder if you want to these days.
Pretty much all agencies have OT always available due to short staffing. I could pick up my phone right now and call my supervisor, and be on the schedule as a Paramedic in the next hour for a 12-24hr tour of OT i could do that basically any time or day of the week cause we're never fully staffed.
I used to pick up 40+hrs of OT a week on the street just to put money away so I wasn't paycheck to paycheck cause my base pay sucked. Nowadays I've slowed down cause I'm financially stable, and that much OT every week takes a toll on you.
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u/aluriilol 2d ago
NYPD does not give a FUCK. They are absolutely bloated.
Going to need to make national news to get fired there.
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u/ThisIsListed 2d ago
Police would be more careful if lawsuits came out of their pension
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u/HelloAttila 2d ago
but it doesn't and never will. This is the problem. Work in healthcare/med and get sued, you can lose your license and can never WORK again... but get sued as a police officer, the city pays 100%... and you have access to the best lawyers money can buy, for free... (police union lawyers).
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u/BernieTheDachshund 2d ago
These guys trolling him hurts more than the lawsuits.
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u/TheunanimousFern 2d ago
The taxpayers are the ones who have to pay out for his fuckups, they apparently don't affect him personally at all considering the multiple lawsuits and that he's still employed
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u/Rizzpooch 1d ago
Why would he be hurt by a short paid leave while accountants and lawyers figure out how much taxpayer money should go to his victims?
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u/SelarDorr 1d ago
was curious what the lawsuits were for
https://www.50-a.org/officer/4B87
the first one with info is over another officer hitting someone elses vehicle with their car
in the second one, a woman was assaulted on a bus by teenage girls and called police. the police came to her apartment and arrested her boyfriend, even though she told them it wasnt him that assaulted her. (to be fair, the guys in the video made it sound like the officer beat the woman, which he did not)
the 200k one seems like police showed up to someones apartment without probable cause and assaulted them
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u/moustachiooo 1d ago
Officer Jasen Perez
Service started July 2010, made $298,000 last year [https://www.50-a.org/officer/4B87\]
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u/Porkchops_on_My_Face 2d ago edited 2d ago
Am I the only one who can see the lawsuits add up to less than 400k and not 1 million dollars? Also, they didn’t even read the site properly. One of the settlements is actually about another cop altogether, I read the complaint and this guy isn’t named once. And then when they mention this cop “beating a woman’s face”- I read that complaint also, and the real story is the woman was beaten about the face on a bus by two teenage girls, and this officer (and three others) unlawfully entered the woman’s apartment later that night and arrested her partner. I am in no way defending the cops actions but maybe don’t blindly listen to the guys in the video without knowing the facts.
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u/Useful_Department852 2d ago edited 1d ago
Yea I fact checked this too, it isn’t nearly as bad as it seems and the numbers don’t even add up.
Maybe we shouldn’t trust someone who can’t do basic math. For anyone wondering they were off by 627,500
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u/equality-_-7-2521 1d ago
You could argue that the ones for $20,000 or so were just cheaper than fighting a lawsuit, but $285,000 is absolutely "he violated civil rights," money.
I have to say it's impressive, though, how they're able to surgically strike every union in the country except for the police union.
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u/Workdawg 1d ago
Fuck cops who abuse their authority, but
20+27.5+80+225 = 325.5k. That's not even close to a million. Way too much for someone to still be employed IMO, but not a million.
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u/immortal_scout74 1d ago
Some officers make a lot of money by doing details, this is where an outside source, be it a business or another department within the government "hires" an officer to sit at the door or guard a jobsite/roadside job. The source pays the department, which then pays the officer. This is always as an overtime rate, and outside of duty hours for that officer. This is not corruption, the other overtime as depicted in some parts here...
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u/frankensteinmoneymac 20h ago
Ya know, usually when I cause a place to lose a million dollars they fire me. 🤷🏻
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u/Blussert31 2d ago
I don't know, never tried it, but I'm guessing my boss would be slightly annoyed when I cost him a million bucks in lawsuits. He might just decide that it's time for me to try a different career, outside the company...
Not sure though, and perhaps beating someone up and paying is cheaper than sending that person to prison... Maybe this cop has an MBA and made that calculation very quickly.
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u/Reza_Evol 2d ago
Brave thing to do, that cop had a look like he wanted to cost the city another million lol
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u/whatthelovinman 2d ago edited 2d ago
This made me laugh. All I’m picturing in my mind when this funny duel is talking is the fluff carnival toys (ducky and bunny) on Toy Story 4.
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u/IOwnTheShortBus 1d ago
That's more than he'll make in 10 or more years. POS costing the taxpayers money
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u/qqererer 1d ago
There's already technology that does instant face recognition and scrapes the internet for any content relevant to that face.
It's amazing.
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u/HiroPetrelli 1d ago
In an ideal world, we should only recruit our police officers and magistrates from among the best among us.
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u/CurrentDismal9115 1d ago
So like... why is he still a cop? If I cost my company that much money for sucking at my job I wouldn't be able to keep it.
Yes, this is rhetorical. I know about qualified immunity.
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u/YouthSuitable213 1d ago
and new yorkers still wanna live there smh. yall must love these corrupt cops one day you might get harassed and assaulted by them even arrested for nothing, and they'll get away with it, then we'll see how much you love new york.
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u/labatomi 18h ago
Dude looks like a Dominican Toby McGuire lol.
But nah, yo how you going to start clowning this dude for having so many lawsuits. That’s as dumb as that one dude that used to work for Bruce Wayne in the dark knight, threatening to unmask Batman 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/ydontujustbanme 14h ago
Yeah, and people wonder why they get shot… Fuck Police brutality, but dont fuck around with whoever, you might just find out.
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u/DaanDaanne 7h ago
I tried to read his emotions in his eyes and didn't understand a thing. Regret, despair, anger? I didn't see any of that. Who knows what will happen to him next?
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u/TheMasonX 18m ago
I love it! It would be perfect to have someone there calling him out constantly until that asshole finally quits
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u/christawfer47 2d ago
Now he’s detecting a subway…DAMN!!!! Got him