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BY SAL GRECOA 28-year NYPD veteran was allegedly unaccounted for after becoming ill. Now questions about AWOL procedures, conflicting explanations, supervisory accountability and the treatment of his funeral are drawing scrutiny.The death of NYPD Police Officer Jeffrey Lamont Struggs, a 28-year veteran assigned to Brooklyn’s 79th Precinct, is raising serious questions about what his command knew, when it knew …
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BY SAL GRECOThere is an old saying about getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar.In American politics, however, the more troubling question increasingly seems to be: What happens when everybody’s hand is somewhere near the jar, but nobody can—or will—say whose hand actually took the cookies?That question hung over our discussion on Episode 224 of The Sal Greco Show, after a sealed Florida grand …
BY SAL GRECOFor New York City taxpayers, lawsuits involving the NYPD are not abstract legal disputes. Every claim that turns into years of discovery, depositions, motions, outside counsel, judgments and settlements ultimately creates a financial exposure for the City.And the numbers are substantial.According to the NYC Comptroller, NYPD tort claims produced $239.1 million in settlement and judgment …
BY SAL GRECOFormer NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey has now surfaced on New York State’s police decertification list. But beyond Maddrey himself, his case raises a much larger question: How much power should a police department have to permanently damage an officer’s post-NYPD life through an administrative determination — particularly when there has been no criminal conviction?For more than a year …
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BY SAL GRECOHow much more controversy can come out of one NYPD command?The 46th Precinct has increasingly become a major leadership problem for Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, and a newly filed lawsuit adds perhaps one of the most disturbing allegations yet: a veteran police officer claims his own commanding officer, Juan Moran, physically grabbed him and attempted to throw him over a wooden partition …
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BY SAL GRECOFrom the Graziano controversy and alleged time theft to questions surrounding confidential medical information, the dismantling of the K9 wellness program and now allegations of IAB retaliation, SalGreco.com’s continuing coverage of the NYPD Health & Wellness Section has taken another major turn.For months, SalGreco.com and The Sal Greco Show have continued digging into turmoil surrounding the …
