Posted on 04/01/2012 10:06:05 AM PDT by Daffynition
(WTNH) — Connecticut’s state police union is angry over a memo, obtained by News 8, that encourages troopers in the Bethany barracks going on a ticketing spree Friday to beat other barracks and win pizza.
The email, from Lt. Anthony Schirillo, challenges troopers to write 350 tickets or more during a 24 hour window starting at 12:01 a.m. Friday. The shift with the most tickets gets pizza, another message said.
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Had a similar situation in VA years ago and the judges threw out ever single ticket written that day.
Every single ticket can be challenged in court and likely to be tossed out. The cops involved in this? They will be forever known as the “pizza patrol” and most of them will find jobs elsewhere within two years.
pizza and not doughnuts??? whats this world coming to...
Wish I had known this....got a speeding ticket a few years ago in VA and would have fought it. :(
These police departments wonder why no one respects them any more.
Here the SP union won a fight as to staffing quotas; we’re about to get red light cameras rammed don our throats. At every turn the LIEberals are using ways to increase our taxes to pay for bloated state budgets.
State Troopers = Glorified tax collectors.
Just in time for 4/1/12.
Well, hey it’s just for the safety of the public!
Guess all the NAZI ideals didn't all die with Hitler.
The Governor should demote that moron Lt. to Trooper and assign him to a foot post. What an @—h-le!
What next? How many dogs can be shot on a shift?
No wonder people hold these scumbags in low regard.
These prima donnas have full private use of their cruisers at tax payer expense. {no property taxes on vehicle, maintenance, fuel]; they pad their retirement by taking overtime to inflate their 3-year average for lifetime of pensions. Making $70K in pay *plus* $100.K in overtime is nice little package.
I call them janitors. They do nothing to prevent crime...just take from the joe-six-packs of this state.
I doubt it. Cops hold their employers in contempt. On Friday I almost rear ended one of our local heros who couldn’t make up his mind on whether or not to go after a lady in a mini van who turned left in front of him without a green arrow. So our hero had to slow down as this lady made a mental error. Not the end of World.
So our local hero speeds up, slows down. Speeds up, lurched left then right. Comes to a stop in the middle of the intersection. His nose though is beyond the intersection. This is where I damn near rear ended this idiot, when he finally comes to a stop. So he then “lights it up” makes an awkward right turn to hit the lady in the mini van with a big fine. But he was far more a menace on the road than the lady in the mini van. Cops:. Idiotic judgmental fools with small peckers No situation that they cannot make worse. Oh, all you idiot cops pulling people over at rush hour for stupid stuff, and backing up traffic for miles:. You suck! I have no idea why my neighbors insist on funding and empowering this shameless protection racket. Cops are arrogant takers who produce NOTHING!
Heh. Who would drive into NH for pizza? Not worth dying for.
*Hey honey, let’s go to NH tonight...I’m dying for a Pepe’s pizza.* Heh.
Troopers must get busy and start the ball rolling for the good of the entire industry.
Sounds like a job for Roger Goodell.
Lots of Oinking goin’ on. Lots...but not all.
Lt. Vance should do us all a favor, take a hike and fade into obscurity.
**“This is not a quota. Troopers have discretion,” Vance said.
“There is nothing more difficult for a Connecticut state trooper than to stop a family — a husband, a wife, a couple of children in the back — for a motor vehicle violation, and hand that family a $275 ticket for violation of the rules of the road. But we look at that family and hope that we have saved a life.”**
The union is *angry*....not calling for this supervisor's head on a pike...*angry* they got caught?
*Angry* they have to explain away their depravity, again.
These damn fools get a food allowance in their paychecks. Morons.
I can't remember what the legal term is for this information, but any derogatory info regarding a law enforcement officer is discoverable by the defendant. That is why it is so surprising how many police officers win their jobs back in arbitration after serious misconduct. That officer is almost useless to his department because any arrest he makes will be challenged on his history of poor integrity.
Town of Stratford, CT Emergency Management Director 203-380-6757 - tschirillo@townofstratford.com
tooo funny...
Tickets? The pikers,,, last week Albuquerque was in the news for paying a $500 bonus to cops who shot a bad guy. THATS the big leagues!
http://www.policeone.com/officer-shootings/articles/5326357-NM-editorial-Shooting-checks-send-wrong-message/z
>>...union payouts of more than $10,000 to 20 officers involved in 2010 and 2011 shootings.<<
Most days I don't think I'm in America any more.
Looks like *made man* like Tony from the Sopranos.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/us/police-tracking-of-cellphones-raises-privacy-fears.html?_r=1
I could argue *best* pizza 'til the cows come home...and you won't find *it* in NH.
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2011/09/19/news/new_haven/doc4e77c955eb1db300971589.txt
Wooster Street is still pretty safe. I visit the area somewhat regularly. Modern Apizza on Grand is in a scarier section. A New Haven-style pizza restaurant finally opened in Chicago, so I no longer have to go 1,000 miles, deal with Sally’s crazy hours or lines.
I wouldn’t rule out very good pizza places in other areas (a transplanted NYer) supposedly opened a top notch place inPhoenix, of all places. Still, I think Sally’s coal fired oven that has been fired up for over 70 years gives the place a significant edge over any would be competitors.
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