Originally Posted by Autoblog

A New York City Police Department officer has been fired for a ticket-writing scheme after 17 years on the force. According to The New York Post, Paul Pizzuto wrote summonses to drivers he'd ticketed in the past, some of whom had been deceased for years by the time the citations arrived in the mail. Pizzuto says he started writing the fake tickets after command told him he needed to start writing more on top of the 125 to 150 he was already issuing. Colleagues raised concerns when they realized Pizzuto never showed up in court for the additional summonses.

The former officer pled guilty to three counts of falsifying business records earlier this year. The NYPD, meanwhile, denies pushing Pizzuto for more tickets and accuses him of trying to pad his pay with his efforts. Pizzuto claims he was improperly fired because the NYPD didn't give him a hearing over the matter. The police department, meanwhile, says he was let go because the citations were an "oath of office" offense, meaning Pizzuto wasn't entitled to a hearing.

Pizzuto was one of three officers busted in the scandal, and he not only lost his job, he received 150 hours of community service along with a docked pension.

Originally Posted by mmarshall

A classic case of He Said/She Said. Given what (admittedly) little we know about it, I'd be more inclined to believe the NYPD.....that Pizzuto was just trying to pad his bottom line. Dishonest cops aren't the norm, but there are plenty of them out there.

Originally Posted by grabber2

I don't know why, but I'm not surprise at all to hear this.

Its NYPD, Its seem perfectly normal. Indeed, they are New York's "Finest" when giving out fines

Originally Posted by rominl

stop lying to yourself already when a retired cop admitted to me that their performance is always "unofficially" associated with their quota, when he had nothing to gain by saying that.

Originally Posted by Aron9000

At least your state doesn't have low level highway patrol officers issuing speeding tickets(like 90+mph) to state senate members. Then later the highway patrol captains are doing some political favors for the senators and getting the tickets "fixed" and removed from court dockets like they never existed.

This was a HUGE scandal in Tennessee. It really exposed how cronyism and the politically connected ruled the top levels of the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

Originally Posted by mmarshall

But, in this particular case, it appears to be a He/She said conflict...and no other officer that we know of, on this particular police force (NYPD), seems to be backing Pizzuto story's in public.