NY's Finest Crooks

Murray Weiss of the NY Post has a damning report out today on the worst of the worst members of the NYPD. There are tens of thousands of cops in this city doing their jobs, but hundreds seem to be rotten to the core. The abuse of power varies from larceny to drug possession and forced oral sex to murder for hire. It is a sad state of affairs at the New York Police Department, but the most horrific thing is how the force has treated the criminals in their ranks.

From The NY Post:

In The Bronx, a veteran NYPD detective was found guilty of getting a woman who was implicated in an identity-theft case to perform oral sex on him.

Detective Dominic Calvanico initially insisted the woman sign a confession and cooperate, according to the report.

He then told her that if she would "take care of him" - engage in sexual activity - he would "talk to the DA and make the case go away," according to the report.

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The detective, who claimed the sex was consensual, was found guilty at his NYPD trial of bribe receiving, coercion, associating with a criminal and filing false statements.

In an extraordinary plea deal worked out among the NYPD, the DA's office and his union, Calvanico - a cop for 19 years and 11 months - agreed to resign and surrender a portion of his pension to avoid criminal charges.

And that is just one example, in others cops have been allowed to remain on the force after being found to be crooked. He was merely an accomplice to another cop that traded drugs for sex and outed an undercover cop in the process. The NYPD has tried to keep this all under wraps, but thankfully Weiss was able to publish this for the city to digest, no matter how nasty it all is.