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MPAA Under Investigation for Illegal NYPD Payoffs
An anonymous reader writes "The New York Post is reporting that two NYPD officers are being investigated for taking illegal payoffs from the MPAA for busting sellers of pirated DVDs. According to the article, MPAA investigators would tell the cops where pirated movies were being sold, which is perfectly legal, but, after the bust, they'd give them several hundred dollars in gratuities, which is illegal. Naturally, the MPAA denies all of this."
you forgot to click that Anon button, General Pussy.
You're a cop and you can't spell jaywalking ?
If it were an old lady who was arrested baking a pie for police officers who caught a burglar we would all laugh at how dumb our legal system was.
The MPAA gave these guys a couple free DVDs, it is not like these gifts were large sums of money.
So the police make a bunch of arrests among large crowds of people then drop the charges later.
I really don't have a problem with that. It is a widely practiced tactic in highly charged crowds. If the DNC had been held in Austin Texas the same thing would have happened.
As for the inventing of stories, the only mention of that was in one case where footage showing him not doing anything was removed. That could have easily been due to brevity. I don't know. I wasn't there.
Frankly the link to Ted Rall as a source really just lowers the credibility of the story. He is the one who called Condoleezza Rice the Bush administration's "House nigger" after all. I don't trust him, but that is just my opinion.