New York Daily News – by ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
The two cops who flouted work rules by using NYPD computers to make Wikipedia edits on the Eric Garner case need to be investigated, according to a new complaint filed by a Brooklyn attorney on Tuesday.
Leo Glickman of the law firm Stoll, Glickman & Bellina filed his complaint with the Conflicts of Interest Board, demanding the agency and the Department of Investigation probe the “seeming violation of the New York City Charter.”
Glickman, who filed the complaint as an individual and not on behalf of his firm, said Police Commissioner Bill Bratton’s “dismissive attitude” about the controversy prompted him to make the complaint.
“I know how seriously agency heads take this,” Glickman said. “I was surprised to hear the commissioner at least not make some public statement about the seriousness of violating the city’s ethics laws.”
Bratton on Monday said the cops had been identified but likely will not be disciplined for the unsanctioned changes. “I don’t anticipate any punishment, being quite frank with you, other than the admonishment advising them on department policy,” Bratton said.
But the complaint charges that Bratton “stood up for the notion that police officers are above the law.”
The NYPD declined to comment and has not named the officers.
Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, encourages public input and changes, though it frowns on what it calls “conflict of interest” edits.
STOLL, GLICKMAN & BELLINAIn a bombshell first reported by Capital New York, computers within the NYPD network were used to make changes — corrections and clarification as well as additions and subtractions — on a number of high-profile cases dating back to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s previous administration. The NYPD’s computer server is only able to track activity for the previous year.
In December, shortly after a Staten Island grand jury voted for no indictment in the Garner chokehold death, the officers in question made several Wikipedia changes, including edits on details about the case.
City employees who use office resources for outside business can be fined up to $25,000, according to the City Charter — and the Conflicts of Interest Board has cited dozens of municipal workers for similar infractions since 1990.
But only eight of those infractions involved NYPD professionals — six cops, a lawyer and former Commissioner Bernie Kerik.
Glickman’s complaint called that “an eye-opening disparity that ought to give rise to serious investigation.”
DOI said it doesn’t discuss investigations until they are done.
Well, I give him credit for trying, but he can kiss his career good-bye.
Not if he’s a jew.
Glickman…..They’ll say they spent 2 million dollars on the court and the investigation but really they’ll spend about 50 grand. The rest goes in the jewpockets.