Trenton police have their own 'no-snitch' policy
/By LA Parker
From [HERE] Remember when Trenton police officers asked the public to disclose names and specifics about city criminal activity, a plea that sought a reversal of an alleged “No Snitch” thread of defiance laced through a patchwork of urban alleys and side streets?
Many residents explained their silence connected to a fear of being found out. The last thing an urban dweller wanted was to have drug kingpins shooting up their houses or worse.
Evidently Trenton police have their own “No Snitch” rules because local officers are turning over every loose piece of paper to find out which one of their rank and file members told the Trentonian about an off-duty police detail that apparently collects millions in side work.
A dozen or more police officers were allegedly part of a special group that gained cake jobs for overseeing jobs being performed by outfits like PSE&G, DewCon, Verizon, Henckels & McCoy, plus, banks, and a laundry list of other establishments. Off-duty cops raked in $30-to-$65 per hour with the well-connected getting higher paying jobs.
Those officers are angry and a segment of police have waged an all-out effort to find out who blabbed a blab that choked the life out of their million dollar baby.
They don’t care if the officers we spoke to told the truth. Somebody’s going to pay for reaching into their billfold. So, what’s going to happen if police find out who snitched?
“Whoever talked will be considered an outcast. They won’t be spoken to. Things will be made harder for them,” a city police officer said.
Sounds weird. Police officers speak out about an obvious rules infractions and law breaking that’s been going on for decades and fellow officers respond by blackballing the whistleblowers.
These are the same police officers who asked the public to speak up about unsolved murders, shootings, drug dealers, etc. but when it comes to their own involved in nefarious dealings they dont’ want anyone to say anything.
That sounds like corruption of mind, body, and soul. One can only wonder what some of these officers thought they were swearing to with their left hands on a Bible and right hand held upward.
Perhaps they thought “protect and serve” represented a pledge to keep their mooching mucho money-making opportunities safe while being given plates of money for sitting in city-owned police cars.
This is not an indictment of the Trenton Police Department because I know that most care about their performance and putting in a good day’s work for significant pay.
Unfortunately, good officers are culpable when they say nothing.
When qualified police are afraid of each other then that law enforcement department has serious problems.
A portion of these police matters sounds childish because bullies are being allowed to force fellow officers into silence.
The City of Trenton needs people to speak truth, whether they live on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard or patrol that area.
We already have a corrupted education system while questions mount about our political leaders. If our police force gets tainted, and there are signs that’s occurred, then Trenton may need State intervention to clean house.
