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Criminals wound up working as officers for the New York City Police Department after the commander overseeing recruitment ignored their checkered past, according to court filings.
Up to 31 unfit officers were allowed to serve as cops due to 'unauthorized unilateral actions' by former commanding officer NYPD Inspector Terrell Anderson, the complaint states.
The recruits were allowed in despite failing psychological tests and background checks and in multiple cases, criminal records, according to the document.
One aspiring officer was even found to have three arrests to their name, but was recruited anyway, the filing states.
Offenses included everything from drug use to prostitution, and a number of driving violations, per the New York Post.
However they were allowed to serve after being granted admission by Anderson, according to the filings, which state he did not have the authority to keep them on the force.
And in a stunning twist, many of the officers remain employed and cannot be sacked after the NYPD Police Benevolent Association filed a restraining order to temporarily halt the city’s actions, keeping them on the payroll.
'His actions, therefore, were a nullity,' the city said.
Anderson was reassigned following the scandal and is now facing departmental charges, law enforcement sources told the Post.
The court filing singled out one rookie cop who was permitted into the NYPD academy, despite having never been employed in any capacity before.
That cop, who was not named, was found to have an 'extensive history of poor decision-making and recklessness', but was allowed to serve anyway by Anderson, the filings said. --->READ MORE HERE
A crew of recently hired cops the city claims were wrongly hired have histories of arrests, drug use, prostitution, and a huge number of driving violations, according to a court filing.
Many of the cops were initially canned because background checks turned up a history of poor decision making, or, in some cases, multiple arrests — including one with three arrests, according to the new filing, including extensive quotes from their disqualification notices.
But the 31 unqualified cops were allowed to unlawfully join the force, the city said, because of the “unauthorized unilateral actions” of a former commanding officer tasked with screening candidates — despite lacking the authority to do so.
“His actions, therefore, were a nullity,” the city claimed, and that the 30 cops rolled the dice on their own “by not questioning or otherwise determining how they could miraculously become appointed as police officers,” despite already receiving notice that they were disqualified.
The commanding officer, NYPD Inspector Terrell Anderson, was reassigned amid the scandal and has since been hit with departmental charges, law enforcement sources said.
According to the court filing, one rookie cop who made it into the academy at age 24 lacked any prior work history, but had an “extensive history of poor decision-making and recklessness,” the filing claimed.
That history included multiple driving convictions for driving 50 miles per hour over the speed limit, an arrest for a suspended license — with eight suspensions in total — and once struck a pedestrian with his car.
Another officer “reported using LSD and marijuana to cope with stress,” the filing said, while one cop said she “openly discussed arguments and conflicts with other people in a boastful manner.”
“What you do to me I’m going to do to you twice and I hope you feel worse than the way you made me feel,” she said, according to her quoted psychological disqualification summary. --->READ MORE HERE
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