By: Gregory P. Kane
What kind of dimwits run the New York Police Department anyway?
This is the town where four plainclothes cops fired 41 shots at Amadou Diallo, killing him when 19 hit their target. This is the same force whose officers burst into 57-year-old Alberta Spruill’s home six years ago, tossed in a concussion grenade and sent the poor woman into a fatal coronary. The suspect cops were looking for was already in police custody. This boo-boo cost New York City $1.6 million.
Then there was the case of Sean Bell. Some undercover cops cranked on Bell 50 times after he left a strip club. That’s quite a high price to pay for an evening of watching butt-naked hoochies.
But perhaps topping all of those cases in notoriety, egregiousness and downright stupidity is the case of Shem Walker. You’ve never heard of Walker? No reason you should. His death at the hands of an NYPD undercover cop in July was overshadowed by the arrest of Little Skippy Gates. Now that Gates and President Barack Obama have had their beer summit with Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department, maybe they can say a word or two about how New York undercover cops botched another one.
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