Tuffey's COVER-UP of police misconduct


By champlain, Section Diaries
Posted on Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 03:31:57 PM EST

If you connect some of the dots on Brendon Lyons' 3/5/08 Albany TU follow-up article on cop misconduct, it appears like Lil'Jimmy Tuffey's APD may be breaking the law - and there may be some evidence here of a MAJOR COVER-UP of POLICE MISCONDUCT.

Lisa Shutter made her complaint about cop misconduct to Albany PD internal affairs a few days after the Dec. 22, 2007 incident.

Councilmember Rich Conti is quoted as saying he helped draft the legislation that created the Albany Citizens' Police Review Board, and he wrote the specific language in the law that requires the police department to notify the review board "within two working days" of its receipt of a complaint.

A member of the City's Citizens' Police Review Board said they have met twice since the Dec. 22 incident but the board was never notified about the case.

The member of the board also told the TU that the board used to receive some transcripts of the interviews conducted by internal affairs during investigations, "but now they stopped giving us transcripts a couple months ago."

Hmmmmmmm.

Lisa Shutter makes her complaint to APD internal affairs at the end of Dec. 2007,

but the review board never gets any notice of the complaint,

and the review board stopped getting transcripts of APD internal affairs interviews at the end of Dec. 2007.

WTF?

Looks suspiciously like a COVER-UP of the Lisa Shutter incident.

"Why" you might ask?

Officers from the APD's `Strategic Deployment Unit' were the ones that pulled over Ms. Shutter that December evening.

The `Strategic Deployment Unit' was part of Jimmy Tuffey's infamous reorganization plan.  You remember that plan don't ya?  That plan from Fall 2006 that got rid of lots of beat cops and said that community policing wasn't working. Tuffey forced that plan through by the end of 2006 and said `hold me accountable'.

Tuffey's desparate to COVERUP the Lisa Shutter incident because his brain child of the infamous reorganization - this `Strategic Deployment Unit' and some of its officers were responsible for the Shutter incident.  

Why was Shutter stopped that evening?
Why were Shutter's civil rights violated?
Because the `Strategic Deployment Unit' cops told her she `fit the profile'.

I think alfrednewman called this unit the `flying squad of ineffectiveness' and this may be one of the times I can agree with the Newman.

I also think 'accountability' is knocking on Lil'Jimmy's office door and is about to break it down.

Albany taxpayers should get ready for another expensive lawsuit because of police misconduct and Jimmy Tuffey's latest spectacular failure.

Yep, the sun will rise tomorrow and Jimmy `pants on fire' Tuffey is still a raging incompetent.

If you're interested in some of the recent history of Lil'Jimmy and the APD there is a series of 2007 diaries:

http://www.democracyinalbany.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2007/3/4/94039/96175
http://www.democracyinalbany.com/story/2007/3/15/163149/977
http://www.democracyinalbany.com/story/2007/7/1/71321/60544

Happy reading.

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Tuffey's COVER-UP of police misconduct | 6 comments (6 topical, 0 hidden)
This is going to hurt my reputation (none / 0) (#1)
by alfrednewman on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 11:25:09 AM EST
First, DIA says he agrees with something and now Champion is as well.

(sniff Sniff) I am getting choked up.
"What? Me worry? " "whatmeworry.alfred@gmail.com"

a stopped clock (none / 0) (#2)
by albany layman on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 12:47:46 PM EST
etc., etc.

(Just kiddin', Al.)

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To throw some fuel to the fire (none / 0) (#3)
by hawkny on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 01:02:06 PM EST
.....Bonanni's jury in Utica just awarded another $200,000!! ROFLMAO!!!!!! Now I'm crying!!!!!

That's $265,000 in total the city has to pay out for the misdeeds and brutality of this moron....

Hawkny (none / 0) (#4)
by alfrednewman on Thu Mar 06, 2008 at 01:31:33 PM EST
That figured does not even come close over this guys carear.
"What? Me worry? " "whatmeworry.alfred@gmail.com"
Bonanni Judgment (none / 0) (#5)
by tmonjeau on Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 06:56:22 AM EST
  The amount will go up because when one proves civil rights violation, the victim's attorney gets paid attorney fees in additon to the amount awarded by a jury.  So, you can probably adda another 100K or so to the $265K.  Oh, and since the City is self insured, I wonder who will pay this - oh that's right, we will pay for Bonanni's actions and the APD's poor excuse for management...

  So, another thing that I do not understand, is how the City lost the Bonanni arbitration.  It had to be either a complete screw up or a planned loss.  Why?  Well, if a cop's testimony as to the apparent intoxication of a motorist is sufficient to convict them of DWI (which it is) how is it that even without the "uncalibrated" breathalyzer results, the testimony of Sgt. (?) Pickel.  Oh that's right, the APD damaged their own witness for disciplining him for whatever.  Cases handled like this is how bad employees avoid discipline under civil service or a union CBA.  I don't have any inside info, so my ruminations are merely speculation and there may be facts of which I am unaware, but after 25 years practicing law that's what it looks like to me.

Tom (none / 0) (#6)
by alfrednewman on Fri Mar 07, 2008 at 02:24:55 PM EST
Maybe you can answer this question- If Pickel wasn't disiplined would it have made a difference in the case?  

Correct me if I am wrong, but if Pickel testified that the officers were drunk then he would have also been obligated to arrest them for DWI if they got into a police car and turned the key that morning.
"What? Me worry? " "whatmeworry.alfred@gmail.com"

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