NYPD for hire: how uniformed New York cops moonlight for banks

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/17/nypd-for-hire-cops-moonlighting-banks



Last year, NYPD officers earned more than $11m in wages working for private corporations.

NYPD for hire: how uniformed New York cops moonlight for banks
Naomi Wolf
Guardian.co.uk, Monday 17 December 2012 12.57 EST

I was surprised two weeks ago to walk into my local TD Bank, on Greenwich Avenue in the West Village, New York to find that the security officer who was usually standing by, on alert, had been replaced by a uniformed, armed, radio-carrying New York Police Department officer, Officer Battle. I confirmed from him that he was, in fact, an NYPD officer – and was working part-time for TD bank.

Of course, this raised red flags for me. After the violent crackdown on Occupy Wall Street in November of 2011, when that group was having some of its most significant successes in protests and actions that challenged private banks and Wall Street institutions, many wondered what had motivated the unexpected aggression against protesters by local police officers tasked, at least overtly by municipal law, with upholding their first amendment rights.

The NYPD became, at the time, coordinated in its crackdown once Occupy had started to target banks. Was there a relationship behind the scenes of which we were unaware?

Chase bank had made a gift of $4.6m to the Police Foundation – boasting on its website that this "was the largest" in that group's history, and hoping that the money would allow the NYPD to "strengthen security". This police fund, as well as some details of a Rudi Giuliani-initiated program by which police officers had been hired by corporations, created a brief stir online.

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1. du rec. nt

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2. Huge rec. n/t

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3. I know an NYPD cop that does this

And I never saw anything wrong with it. The cop makes some extra money and the community has a uniformed police officer that wouldn't normally be there. There are cops that also work as armed security guards for private events/individuals. It's a way to make some extra money.