Who can you trust? Can you trust “New York’s Finest?” That’s the New York Police Department. Can you trust doctors? Can you trust Unions? Can you trust politicians? Apparently “no” is the emphatic answer to this question. I do concede that the examples below don’t represent the whole (hopefully) but it does make one stop and think.
Most recently 16 NYPD officers were indicted for fixing traffic and parking tickets of friends and relatives. These indictments came as a follow-up to the investigation of Officer Joe Ramos who was indicted for making a heroin buy and delivering it in a patrol car while on duty.
Making the above corruption worse, reportedly, 500 members of the police union showed up outside the courthouse while their partners in crime were being indicted. They held a demonstration in support of the accused and were apparently quite rowdy with applause and cheers for the accused. They displayed placards saying, “NYPD culture, Not a Crime.” According to one report they then turned their ire on a line across the street where welfare recipients were waiting to report to their caseworkers. They also left a mess of discarded coffee cups and other garbage that the folks at Occupy Wall Street would never even think of.
A few months ago two NYPD officers were accused and went to trial for raping a young woman who had asked for help getting home from a celebration after she had been promoted.
NYPD officers accused recently of illegal smuggling and sales of guns.
An officer of NYPD, against procedural rules, used pepper spray on several Occupy Wall Street participants. His punishment as announced is the loss of five days of his accrued vacation.
Last week it was announced that the Long island Railroad has many employees or former employees on disability. Some are receiving as much as $100,000 per year. The problem with this is that doctors who examined them to determine eligibility were filing fraudulent reports and getting kickbacks. The union was apparently knowingly involved in this fraud as well.
Twelve people, including three medical doctors, were arrested in Queens and Brooklyn just yesterday for allegedly taking part in a nearly $100 million Medicare fraud scheme. Members of the ring allegedly posed as patients to de-fraud the Medicare System. No wonder our healthcare system is so expensive. This isn’t the first such scheme uncovered around the country in the last year.
Finally, there’s Herman Cain who hasn’t yet found his way to the truth regarding his sexual harassment history.
Again I ask, “who can you trust?”
Stan the Man
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