'I see card after card. You're not allowed to write any of them (up),' he told The Associated Press. 'We're not supposed to be showing favoritism when we do car stops, and we shouldn't be giving them out because the guy mows my lawn.'
A New York City police officer is speaking out against the use of "courtesy cards" by friends and relatives of his colleagues on the force, accusing department leaders of maintaining a sprawling system of impunity that lets people with a connection to law enforcement avoid traffic tickets.
In the Staten Island precinct where he works, a predominantly white area with a high percentage of cops and other city workers, Bianchi said multitudes of people he pulled over for traffic infractions flashed him one of the cards. The final straw came last summer, when Bianchi wrote a ticket to a friend of the NYPD's highest-ranking uniformed officer, Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, according to the lawsuit. Three days later, Bianchi said he was ousted from his job in the traffic unit and moved to a night patrol shift.
John Nuthall, a spokesperson for the Police Benevolent Association, the NYPD's largest union, didn't deny the existence of courtesy cards but said it was up to management to decide department policy.
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