There’s an untold number of NYPD officers working today who are such huge liars that their legal testimony is no longer considered worth the risk. So why are they still being entrusted with public safety? zakcheneyrice writes
Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon. Photo: Steven Ferdman/Shutterstock There are many jobs — most, in fact — where the inability to perform the basic duties required of said jobs is grounds for termination. Being a police officer in at least two New York City boroughs is apparently not one of those jobs. On Monday, Gothamist–WNYC reported that the Staten Island district attorney’s office is compiling a list of police officers whom its attorneys will not allow to testify in court.
Questions abound as to how effectively these lists are actually being used, whose names are on them, how they got there in the first place, and whether officers can petition to get theirs removed. In Staten Island, there currently appears to be no mechanism for removal. The Brooklyn DA’s office in November publicized dozens of the names it has compiled, following a FOIL appeal submitted on Gothamist–WNYC’s behalf.
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