https://dockets.justia.com/docket/massachusetts/madce/3:2015cv30154/173708 This docket provides confirmation. Officer Kennedy has sued the city, the mayor, the police chief, and Capt. Granger.

Act-shell-lee these lawsuits are a necessary evil. They protect these officers. How so?

Any further abuses can serve as documented evidence to strengthen the cases of the plaintiffs.

Any retalitory measures taken against these officers can be offered to the courts, the judges and the jury.

If more and more officers step up and file suits against the city and these individuals, perhaps the abuse will stop. Perhaps even bankrupt Mayor Lockdown.

How ironic it’d be if all the money mr. Lockdown amassed as part-time mayor, full-time Global Montelleo be paid out to police officers whom were abused by this idiotic oppressive admin.

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Serpico actually attended a few family events over at my Uncle Guido’s home in Austerlitz, NY.. He talked some but not much of his past. It was pretty cool meeting him.

Serpico, citing ‘old boys’ club’ in town hall, runs for town board seat

Tuesday, September 1, 2015 12:00 am

By John Mason Columbia-Greene Media

STUYVESANT — The Stuyvesant Democratic Party has nominated three candidates for the fall election who are concerned about equality, justice and fair treatment. One of them has an international reputation for his dedication to these ideas.

Frank Serpico, known for exposing corruption in the 1960s New York City Police Department, has been endorsed by the Stuyvesant Democratic Party as a candidate for the Town Board. He joins Lee Jamison, running for town supervisor, and Edson Folmsbee, also running for Town Board.

Serpico is “coming out of retirement due to his concerns for equal justice in Stuyvesant,” according to a press release from Jamison. “Initially reluctant, Serpico was cheered on by the crowd who repeated that Stuyvesant and the county needed him now. He said if he were younger, he would have run for district attorney himself, but this year he will work for the election of D.A. candidate Ken Golden.”

Serpico was an undercover cop in the New York Police Department in the 1960s and 1970s who blew the whistle on rampant corruption throughout the department. When he was shot in the face during a drug raid on Feb. 3, 1971, fellow officers did not come to his aid. He recovered, but lost his hearing in one ear.

“I have (bullet) fragments all over my head, inoperable,” he said.

When he went to his superiors, he was largely ignored, until he went to the press. A big story in the New York Times led to the formation of the Knapp Commission, before which he testified in 1972. The publicity he generated, leading to a best-selling book and a major Hollywood movie, starring Al Pacino, based on his life, helped to somewhat change the way the NYPD operated.

He lives in a secluded home near the Hudson River. He bought the property in 1968, and after spending some time in Europe, had his house built in the early 1980s.

The late Ken Hummell, the tax collector at the time, built the house.

“When I got to his house, he had a beautiful view of the Hudson,” Serpico said. “He wasn’t there, so I left him a note. I said, ‘I found Paradise, but no one was home.’ I repeated that at his wake. I have a pair of eagles circling my cabin, and ruby-throated hummingbirds.

“I’ve been there a long time,” he said. “I know the ins and outs of the politics. If the ticks don’t get you, the politics will.”

Serpico promised to bring “truth and honesty, uncompromisingly.”

“Politics should be about serving the people, not yourself and your party,” he said.

“I thought back to when I was a cop and I joined the police department and found all this corruption,” he said. “I thought, ‘I don’t need this.’ I didn’t join to be a crook. The cops were making millions of dollars back then. I thought I could quit anytime, but before that, I’ll let them know I’m here.”

For the last five years, he has been in a dispute with a neighbor who finally pleaded guilty to trespassing on Serpico’s land, and was ordered to pay $350 in restitution for cutting down at least a dozen trees. Serpico, who was represented by Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka, believes the trees were worth thousands of dollars and that he did not get a fair hearing.

Czajka said that he asked for substantially more damages, but would not criticize the judge’s decision.

In general, Serpico said, he’s interested in protecting the environment.

“People travel hundreds of miles to see a bald eagle flying around town,” he said. “It’s a beautiful habitat. Even the corner of my property was a globally rare habitat and they don’t seem to care about that. It’s the old boys’ club, all taking care of each other.”

10 thousand, excuse me.