Stephen Anderson, Ex-NYPD detective says fabricating drug charges against innocent people using "flaking" a common practice used to meet arrest quotas.
Stephen Anderson, a former New York Police Department detective dropped a bombshell during his testimony in a false arrest scandal engulfing New York City, saying it was common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas. The practice of planting cocaine on innocent people is called "flaking." This was first public account of the sick culture behind false arrests practices in Brooklyn South and Queens narcotics squads. The scandal has led to the arrests of eight cops.
Anderson, testifying under a cooperation agreement with prosecutors, was busted for planting cocaine, a practice known as "flaking," on four men in a Queens bar in 2008 to help out fellow cop Henry Tavarez, whose buy-and-bust activity had been low.
"Tavarez was ... was worried about getting sent back [to patrol] and, you know, the supervisors getting on his case," he recounted at the corruption trial of Brooklyn South narcotics Detective Jason Arbeeny.
"I had decided to give him [Tavarez] the drugs to help him out so that he could say he had a buy," Anderson testified last week in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Source
People often wonder why blacks have such a deep-rooted distrust of the police, well, this is one of the reasons why. I would venture to say more blacks were arrested in these two divisions than whites. The justice system in this country is very flawed and "flaking" doesn't help. If this is going on in New York City, imagine how many other police departments across the U.S. similar practices are being utilized!
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