"Army Lets a Felon Join Up, but N.Y.P.D. Will Not"

When you want Truth, you want the New York Times. Or is that truthiness...

Regardless, here's an interesting article.

You want to know why they won't let you in the NYPD, Specialist Osvaldo Hernandez?

Well, besides the obvious racial handicap as it pertains to decent employment in Ammurca, the NYPD has enough felons already!

NYPD Corruption Cases Surged in 2006

The revelations contained in the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau 2006 Annual Report - obtained by The Post - include:

• Arrests of New York's Finest rose 25 percent in 2006 over the previous year, from 91 to 114.
• The number of cops caught using drugs last year jumped 138 percent, from eight incidents the previous year to 19, including one cop using PCP (phencyclidine), and another shooting steroids into his butt.
• Fraud allegations involving insurance, credit card and welfare swindles rose 85 percent to 50 complaints from 27 the previous year.
• The number of cops stripped of their guns and badges and placed on modified duty jumped 55 percent, from 137 to 212, but suspensions fell 11 percent from 159 to 142.

Usually, I'm one to hate on the Post, but every now and again their attack dogs do something I rather enjoy:

The Post pieced together the accounts using sources, court records and district attorneys' offices, along with the tightly guarded annual IAB study.

For its part, the NYPD insisted The Post submit in writing its requests for specific case information and names of fired or disciplined cops, which the newspaper did on Aug. 14.

Since then, follow-up reminders, in person and via e-mail, have fallen on deaf ears.

God Bless the NYPD IAB? Seriously though, for your own sanity do not Google the following: NYPD Abuse (484,000 hits), NYPD Corruption (225,000 hits), or NYPD internal affairs (Only 147,000 hits buuut like 8 of the first 10 hits deal not with Internal Affairs but rather the cops they have arrested...)