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The 6th Precinct covers Greenwich Village
and the West Village, including the Stonewall Inn, where an early morning NYPD
raid in June 1969 triggered days of violenti
i i i ispride parades took place in June 1970 tomark the anniversary of the riots. Thus the“heritage” this NYPD coin commemorates
is rooted in violent anti-NYPD sentiment.

NYPD’s anti-crime units are the aggressive
plainclothes teams responsible for most of
the police killings in the city, including themurder of Eric Garner in 2014. Cabaret
units handle minor crimes and violations
in busy “nightlife” areas. Conditions units
and Street Narcotics Enforcement Units,
or SNEUs, were disbanded as part of acommunity policing rebranding in 2015.

Conditions units dealt with “neighborhood
conditions,” mainly writing civil summonses for minor quality-of-life violations.
Plainclothes SNEUs targeted street-corner
drug deals. A Bronx SNEU team chased
down and killed Ramarley Graham in 2012.
The taxi with dashboard siren depicts theundercover taxis used by each of theseunits.

The 7th Precinct covers the Lower East
side. The garbage truck is stopped at thecorner of Pitt St and Broome, the location
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clothes and wide-brimmed hat common
to Hasidic Jews, a group that has a long
history in the Lower East Side and thathas extraordinarily close relations with the

NYPD, often working directly with thevolunteer Shomrim auxiliary police force
to make arrests. A mohawked punk sitting
against a lamppost looks on impassively.

The 23rd Precinct covers the southern
section of East Harlem. Basketball plays alarge role in NYPD’s community policing
propaganda efforts. The precinct holds
regular “cops versus kids” basketball games
at the local Boy’s Club, while “neighbori isi
the courts at local Cherry Tree Park.

The 25th Precinct covers the northern partof East Harlem. The area is home to multiple drug treatment clinics, whose clientele
often hang out near the intersection ofsisinformally refer to methadone users as“zombies.” Cops here have described
themselves as a “zombie response team,”using such “headshot” imagery in the past.

The “hole in the donut” refers to thearea in Morningside Heights containing
Columbia University, Barnard College, and
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based on the amount of “action” they get:an A House is a dangerous, high-crime
precinct; a C House is a safer precinct witha slower pace; a B House is somewhere in
between. The 26th Precinct can quickly
switch between an A and a C House owing
to the presumably crime-free “hole in the
donut” of Columbia and Barnard.

The 34th Precinct covers Washington
Heights and Inwood. The Organized
Crime Control Bureau, or OCCB, used toi si i s
i isome SWAT-style door-busting operations.
OCCB was disbanded in 2016 after bureaucratic restructuring to make the department
appear more community-friendly. Narcotics
was a specialized division of OCCB.

The 41st Precinct covers Hunts Point andLongwood in the South Bronx. While celebrating the racist old “Fort Apache” nickname, which meant treating neighborhood
residents as savages, cops and the media
still fawn over “supercop” Ralph Friedman,famed for killing four people (three ofwhom he actually did shoot in the head)and participating in 15 shootings over thecourse of his career. He was awarded a
Combat Cross for his exploits, the NYPD’s
second highest honor. The two revolvers
depict the two guns he carried, one a.38 special in an ankle holster. One of
the skulls represents Charles Williams, aburglary victim who had called the police
for help during a break-in attempt at his
home in 1972.

The 42nd Precinct covers Claremont, Crotona Park East, and Crotona Park. In 2015
the city paid out $285,000 to settle a lawsuitiisi
incidentally, shot and killed an armed man
in 2012 while also wounding nine bystanders with stray bullets in the process) was
punished by his supervisors for years after

exposing the precinct’s “highly developed
quota system” that demanded minimum arssi
his colleagues at the precinct prefer toproject an image of themselves as musclebound Nordic viking “warrior” cops
beating neighborhood wasteland criminals
with spiked bats.

The 48th Precinct covers Belmont, East
Tremont, and other areas north of the
Cross Bronx Expressway. The 48th wasnotorious in the 1990s for being the mostcorrupt precinct in the city, with dozens
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operations by the Internal Affairs Bureau.
“N.D.” stands for Narcotics Division.

The 63rd Precinct covers Marine Park,
Mill Basin, Flatlands, and other areasof southeastern Brooklyn. Dollar vans
are unmarked vans that operate illegallyas for-hire vehicles, usually followings isssthem driving up and down major roadways
like Flatbush Ave, picking up passengers
along the way, especially during rush

hours when buses are packed and runningbehind schedule. Dollar vans have been an
informal part of New York’s transit systemfor decades; only recently has the NYPD
initiated a “crackdown” on them, issuing
drivers tickets and seizing their vans, theirlivelihoods.

The 66th Precinct covers the Borough Park
section of Brooklyn, including Midwood
and Kensington. The precinct acquired
the “Fort Surrender” nickname in 1978
after hundreds of Hasidic Jews protesting
the stabbing death of a Hasid (and also,
in turn, anti-Semitism within the NYPD)
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New York City.

The 70th Precinct covers Ditmas Park,
Midwood, Prospect Park South, andparts of Flatbush. Cops here have longcollectively referred to themselves as “TheLaws of Flatbush,” spending the past few
decades racking up civilian complaints andtargeting the area’s Carribean residents
in particular. In 1997, Haitian immigrant
Abner Louima was beaten and brutally

sodomized by cops in a 70th Precinct
station house bathroom who were initiallyreported as having said, “it’s Giuliani time,”isidepicted as being protected “in battle” bySaint Michael, the patron saint of police ofs si iidemon on the steps of their station houseusing a large, NYPD-issued service sword.

The 75th Precinct covers East New Yorkand Cypress Hills. 1000 Sutter Avenue isthe station’s address. The precinct has long
been considered the most violent in thecity. The precinct’s motto paraphrases 1010
WINS news radio’s slogan, “Give us 22
minutes, we’ll give you the world.”

The 79th Precinct covers portions of
Bedford-Stuyvesant. Marcy Houses is a
sprawling public housing complex that wasformerly home to Jay-Z but which is nowiiiapartments as the city waits for its older
tenants to die out. “Flirting with Disaster”
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The 81st Precinct covers BedfordStuyvesant and Stuyvesant Heights. The
NYPD Tapes were secret recordings madeisiin 2008-2009 proving widespread corruption and abuse in the precinct. Aftervoicing his complaints internally, he faced
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an illegal SWAT raid on his apartment,
physically abducting him and involuntarily
committing him to a psychiatric facility
for six days. The license plate “54-EDP”
references a “10-54 EDP” call, in which a
so-called “emotionally disturbed person”
is taken to a hospital via ambulance. The
quote is the Deputy Chief ’s recorded orderto remove “rat” Schoolcraft to the hospital.

The 111th Precinct covers a nearly allwhite section of northeastern Queens that
includes Bayside, Little Neck, and Fresh
Meadows. The fearful Terminator imagery
is unusual given that the area has one of
the lowest crime rates in the city and isconsidered a plum assignment, especiallysi iIsland and want to work near home.

The 112th Precinct, covering Forest Hills
and Rego Park in Queens, was also thebirthplace of the Ramones.

Public Service Area 3 covers housing
projects in north Brooklyn. “Par Avion,”or airmail, is part of the old New York
City tradition of throwing debris out one’s
window onto cops’ heads.

Public Service Area 7 covers housing projects in the South Bronx. Housing police arenotoriously lazy and are known to reply todispatcher calls by radioing back, “Housing
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doing nothing, waiting out their tour.

During its “golden era,” the Transit
Bureau’s Homeless Outreach Unit’s duties
consisted of walking through train cars
at night and harassing people who wereillegally reclining across multiple seats
and busting people for open containers
and other quality-of-life violations. Their“outreach” also involved checking tunnels
for homeless encampments (to be clearedout) and searching for tunnel dwellers(to be arrested for trespassing). In 2003,
the city settled a lawsuit accusing NYPD
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who weren’t homeless.

The Transit Bureau’s MetroCard Fraud
Task Force used to be in charge ofcatching people ripping off card vending
machines. Thieves used to jam toothpicks
into money return or card dispensing
slots and wait for someone to try to buy
a card. Cash or credit cards went in, but
MetroCards or change didn’t come out.
After the customer left in frustration, thethief returned, unjammed the slots, andtook the card or cash. Machines have long
been updated against the scam; it’s thereason change comes back in dollar coins
instead of bills. The DVD-R refers to thetask force’s work, which involved setting up
surveillance cameras, recording the crimes,
and distributing images to transit cops who
would track down the suspects.

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in pidgin English, including “drop the gun”
(sooEHL-teh EH-seh reh-VOHL-vehr)and “do you want a priest?” (deh-SEH-ah
oon sah-sehr-DOH-teh). “C D Express”
refers to a Command Discipline, a disciplinary action imposed by one’s commandiisThe New York City Transit Police
Department was its own separate police
force until 1995, when it was integrated
into the NYPD and became the Transit
Bureau. “One Under” is transit jargon forwhen someone is run over by a train.

Commemorating the Occupy Wall Street
demonstrations of 2011-2012. A nightsticklies across the face of an Anonymousiiii
to anyone who’s ever been to a protest in
New York City. NYPD relies heavily on
steel bike rack barricades as a crowd control tool. They eventually had the occupied
park surrounded by them 24 hours a day.

The Disorder Control Unit was created in
1992 (not 1993, as the coin states) following the Crown Heights riots the previous
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within precincts where civil disorder may
occur and helps develop localized crowd
control response plans with the precinct.
In the 17th century, local watchmen carried
sticks over their shoulders with green

lanterns hanging from them as a means ofiiiitheir patrol, they would hang the lantern ona hook outside the watch house to indicatethat there was someone on duty inside. The
tradition lives on in the lantern-like greentinted lights that are permanently installedoutside the entrances of every precinct
house in the city.

The Tactical Patrol Force was the nameof NYPD’s nighttime riot control squadarmed with blackjacks and, eventually,nightsticks. Formed in 1959, TPF’s job was
to violently suppress civil unrest, from riots
in Harlem to student demonstrations at
Columbia to the uprising at Stonewall. Its
members had to be over six feet tall, under
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the academy. TPF was disbanded in 1984,
reportedly due to the high number ofexcessive force complaints, but in reality it
was just a way to make NYPD’s riot squadiiough instead of one single citywide force.

The Tactical Patrol Force was broken up in
1984 and replaced with smaller Task Forceunits located in each of the NYPD’s patrol
boroughs (MNTF/Manhattan North,
QSTF/Queens South, etc.). In 2015,
Task Forces were phased out and broughtsiiStrategic Response Group. “Hats and Bats”
refers to riot helmets and nightsticks.

Brooklyn North Narcotics Division was a
brutal plainclothes squad that was known
as the “Body Snatchers.” BNND cops
amassed 60 lawsuits in just 5 years before it
was later disbanded in 2015. The lawsuits,
which cost the city millions of dollars tosettle, revealed a pattern of illegal searches,
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encompass the precinct numbers listed on
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Narcotics cops from 2010 describes a
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keys, smashed his door down with a battering ram. They ransacked the place without
a warrant, stole a jacket, and jailed the manovernight before releasing him withoutcharges. “R.I.P. The Sarge” refers to Daniel
Sbarra, a BNND sergeant who racked up
30 civilian complaints and who was the
subject of 10 Internal Affairs investigations, all of which resulted in no discipline
other than a few docked vacation days. The
media placed him under the spotlight, but
the NYPD ultimately rewarded his behavior by promoting him to lieutenant.

The Street Crime Unit was the NYPD’sroving citywide plainclothes squad that was
responsible for countless deaths throughout the 1990s. Following the killing of
Amadou Diallo in 1999, SCU was broken
up into smaller, boroughwide Anti-Crime
Units, where they continue their work
today.

isscolored wristbands, armbands, or lanyards
that they don before making arrests. This
allows other cops to distinguish them froma normal everyday band of marauding
civilians grabbing people on the street
for no discernable reason, putting themin chokeholds and slamming them to theground. The color changes daily and is
known as the “color of the day.”A tribute to the 35-pound, all-steel“Stinger” battering ram employed by
the since-disbanded Organized Crime
Control Bureau as well as other squads
and agencies including the FBI. In 2003,
the NYPD used a Stinger battering ram
while executing a no-knock search warrant
while entering 57-year-old Alberta Spruill’sHarlem apartment based on a false tipfrom a confidential informant. Spruill,by all accounts a quiet, devout woman
who worked for the city for 29 years, wasdressed for work when police broke down
her door, tossed a concussion grenade into
her home, and rushed in with machineguns drawn, quickly taking her down andhandcuffing her. She died soon after ofcardiac arrest on her way to the hospital.

The OCCB Investigations Unit was
responsible for investigating administrative violations and minor misconduct inother OCCB units. In 2005, 11 out of
12 members of the unit were themselvesdisciplined for administrative violations including falsifying overtime claims. “It’s not
personal, it’s strictly business” is a quotefrom a scene in The Godfather in which

gangsters are debating whether or not theyshould kill a cop. The Kool-Aid Man, always vigilant, is green, the traditional colorof the NYPD.

The now-disbanded plainclothes Street
Narcotics Enforcement Unit, catchingperps like Pokémon.

The New York/New Jersey Regional
Fugitive Task Force is made up of members from a variety of agencies including
the NYPD, which has 20 detectives
assigned to it. The Task Force assists law
enforcement agencies, including ICE,in tracking down fugitives. In 2014, U.S.
Marshals and NYPD detectives serving aiisin Greenwich Village that left the fugitive
dead and two marshals and an NYPD
detective seriously wounded.

The Criminal Justice Bureau is responsible
for processing arrests citywide. Central
Booking is the courthouse jail in each borough where arrestees are held while awaiting arraignment before a judge. Wait times
sometimes reach over 24 hours depending
on arbitrary factors like the time of day
one is processed or the mood of the ofs ississand packed. The spotlight meal offered todetainees is an American cheese sandwich
on wheat bread. CJB’s job includes identifying immigrants on federal detainer lists sothat they can be transferred to the custodyof federal immigration authorities. CJB is
considered one of the worst assignments
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The Asset Forfeiture Unit is a specialized team made up of detectives who
have advanced training in business andaccounting. Their job is to develop cases inwhich targeted individuals are caught using
valuable seizable assets as instruments incrime. Slightly different from the NYPD’s
everyday civil forfeiture practices, which
rob innocent New Yorkers of millions ofdollars a year. The unit currently operates
as part of the Criminal Enterprise Division
and works closely with federal agencies likethe Department of Homeland Security andthe IRS to steal people’s property.

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bragging about crimes they committed or
threaten to commit, as well as kids posting about illegal activity in general. This
includes noting locations of “troublesome
house parties” and other unpermittedsocial gatherings. Created in 2011, the idea
behind the unit seems to be to scrutinize

teenagers’ social lives, identify them as possible gang members or criminals, and give
police even more opportunities to harrass
and arrest young people.

The Intelligence Division, now called theIntelligence Bureau, focuses on counterterrorism. While there are records of
Bureau requests to conduct surveillanceon the hacker collective Anonymous, theactual existence of a CIA-style “Special
Activities Unit” whose operations include
active cyberwarfare and propaganda activities is doubtful.

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conducts intelligence gathering operations
in areas outside New York City, where the
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later adopted the term to refer to anyone
in a covert investigation unit, especially innarcotics. “Exitus Acta Probat” is Latin forsi ssBetter for a cop to treat every interaction as
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innocent than face the extreme possibilityiii iother cops. This logic of “I feared for mylife, so I had to shoot” is why cops seem tobe scared of everything and everyone, why

any movement is “suspicious,” and why
every object in hand looks like a weapon.

In a cop’s mind, the police are constantly
under attack. They are a “public enemy”
hated by everyone, persecuted and crucissiaround targeted for assassination, eventhough their job is not even close to ranking among the most dangerous jobs in thenation. The mentality is “us against them”
or, if you’ve got the look, “us against you.”

The Planeteers, representing other area
police agencies, combine their forces tos
the social pollution of urban crime.

Raptors were, of course, the villains ofJurassic Park. The image of a violent raptor
pack roaming around in ballistic vests
against the backdrop of a public housing
complex might be relatively accurate,though.

Commemorating 9/11 with the Ringling
Brothers Circus tagline “The Greatest
Show on Earth” is an unusual decision.
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villages that were consolidated into New
York City in 1898, most with their own
police departments.

Some of the cases under the purview of
the Detective Bureau include homicides,
larger narcotics cases, vice enforcement,
gang activity, asset forfeiture, computer
crimes, and all hate crimes. The Real Time
Crime Center, the citywide surveillance
operation that includes facial recognition
and monitoring of protests, is part of the
Detective Bureau.

The Fraternal Order of Police, a unions issDonald Trump for president. Trump has
proposed a nationwide stop-and-friski s iiities. In 1989 he publicly campaigned forthe execution of the Central Park Five witha plea to “bring back our police.” Despite
their exoneration, Trump continues to in-sist upon their guilt, saying in 2016 that hestill fully trusts the NYPD detectives who
handled the case. As one news outlet noted
before the election: “Reporters have busied
themselves running around Manhattan
i iYork Donald Trump supporters to interview. They’re actually pretty easy to spot:
they’re the ones in blue uniforms.”

Critical Response Command, or CRC,
is the NYPD’s “elite” counterterrorismssss
Manhattan holding machine guns andstanding still or posing for photos with
tourists in Times Square. “Protecting theTower” refers to Trump Tower. Stryker
Force is an informal term for a six-person
CRC team.

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In New York City, “unauthorized use of amilk crate” is against the law. During theBloomberg-era quality-of-life campaignisss
reach daily quotas began actually enforcing
it, writing tickets to people engaging in theold city tradition of sitting on milk crates
on the sidewalk, hanging out and socializing. Additionally, since the people sitting

on them weren’t the milk crates’ registeredowners, they were technically stolensiswere bogus. They would assure people thatthe judge would throw it out, so they had
nothing to worry about. Mayor Bloomberg
came out in support of the milk cratecrackdown, even advising citizens to call
311 to report any milk crate violation.

“Excited delirium syndrome” is a fakemedical condition invented by police tojustify in-custody deaths and brutality
againsts s. The term spread
departments around the nation during theReagan drug war years of the 1980s. It is
now widely taught to cadets as legitimate
science, even though the American Medical
Association does not recognize it as a

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death, not injuries incurred from the police
violence that almost always precede these
deaths. Louis Rotkowitz is an “honorary
police surgeon,” a title granted to cronies.

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an emergency nasal spray used for thetreatment of opioid overdose carried by
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cops jam it in anyone that shows any

minor symptom at all that could possibly
be interpreted as a sign of drug overdose.
When the person “survives,” the cops get
plaudits while EMTs come and clean up
the mess, dealing with all the cardiovascularand gastrointestinal side effects that comewith the drug.

A memo book containing the obligatory
page of Miranda warnings to be read tosuspects after their arrest. “Line, T.B.”
stands for Thin Blue Line, or the line between order and chaos. The time period isexactly twenty years, the minimum required
to retire.

A typical day in the life of a cop in theage of “neighborhood policing.” The
numbers preceding the notes are radio
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teams patrol the same area day after day
to “foster a sense of ownership” amongsstheir assigned sectors. A 10-63 is a meal

break. EOT stands for End of Tour. The
rooster references the traditional NYPDsis i
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A UF-250 is a stop-and-frisk report form.
The form depicted was phased out in2016 after constitutional challenges. It wasiiishad to describe the circumstances of a stoprather than just checking off a few boxes (asure way to agitate cops is to increase theirpaperwork). The coin mocks the notionthat there was anything wrong with the old

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Mayor Bill de Blasio is the cop-hating
scumbag, Brooklyn Borough President andformer NYPD cop Eric Adams is probably
the Black Lies Matter advocate, Police
Commissioner and community policing
advocate William Bratton is the politicalsellout, and City Council president Melissa
Mark-Viverito turned NYC into a toilet.

Getting “jammed up” is police jargon forbeing under investigation by a department’s
issreal iteration of New York City’s Civilian
Complaint Review Board (CCRB) was
formed following the 1964 Harlem riots,
ostensibly giving civilians oversight to reignin excessive force and abuses of authority.
The actual civilian component was quickly

removed and the board became entirely
members of the police. In 1993, CCRB was
returned to civilian control. Its authority remains limited to recommending disciplineisimines guilt and punishment, if any. CCRB
and NYPD signed a formal Memorum ofUnderstanding (MOU) in 1997, to which
the “20 Years” detail likely refers.

“Highway therapy” is what happens whensuperiors want to discipline a subordinate
for perceived misdeeds or for not goingalong with the company line, or simply
because they don’t like them. The troublesome cops are transferred to a precinct
far away from where they live, turning aten-minute commute into an hour-longslog through toll highways and bridges

and incurring $35 or more in E-ZPass fees
everyday. The extended commute also givessi
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Police regularly abuse their authority withcity-issued “restricted parking plate” placards that they laminate and place on their
dashboards when parked illegally, bothin their personal cars and their unmarked
NYPD vehicles (which are still subject tocity parking rules). Mayor de Blasio has
threatened a crackdown, while the heads i i isiticketing quotas.

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Representing 24,000 officers, the PBA is
the largest and most powerful municipal
police union in the country. All members
receive a customary annual supply of 30
plastic laminated “get out of jail free”
courtesy cards for themselves and theirfriends and families, who, when stopped

for traffic infractions or other minor
violations, will hand them to officers intandem with their driver’s licenses. These
encounters quickly end with the officers
letting cardholders go with a simple warning rather than a ticket or arrest.

“20 and out” is a slogan used by cops whoare just looking to put in their minimum 20
years before they can retire with a full pension. In the meantime, they’re just counting
down the days when they can be donewith it all. The Theodore Roosevelt quote
seems out of place: “No man is worth hissalt, who is not ready at all times to risk
his body, to risk his well-being, to risk hislife in a great cause.” This seems at odds
with all the cops who simply view their job
as “doing time,” unless the great cause isretirement.

In addition to their pension, police who
retire after 20 years receive a $12,000“holiday bonus” every December fromthe pension fund’s Variable Supplement
Fund, the result of an outdated 1960s-era
setup related to the fund’s stock market
investments. The VSF has paid out $500
million annually to NYPD retirees in recent
years. Meanwhile, taxpayers spend $8.6

billion—over 10% of the city budget—onisisRetiring from the force early with a disability pension is the real dream for lazy cops.
Those injured on duty who become “toodisabled to work” are eligible for the special pension, which pays out three-quartersof their annual salary, tax-free, forever.
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be unable to tilt their body or even brushtheir teeth without extreme pain. The
Police Pension Fund will usually sign off
on it, even without any medical evidence.
Occasionally, cops will be exposed after
someone discovers all the Facebook photosof them on rock climbing trips or building
a boat or doing other strenuous activity.

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