wende corrections officers arrested for contraband 2018 new york state police news

The Article’s thesis is that a variety of dysfunctions around the politics of policing leads to legislative stasis and executive inertia: governing officials simply defer to the police. This Article asks why we as a society know so little about how to assure safety, and what we can do to change this state of affairs. As a result, we don’t know what keeps us safe, and there is a real risk we are doing more harm than good. There is a particularly troubling tendency to ignore the social costs (the impact policing practices have on individuals)-and the distributional costs (how policing regularly falls most heavily on racial and marginalized communities). From the adoption of new technologies like facial recognition to militarization to stop-and-frisk tactics, and much else, police in the United States pursue public safety strategies without understanding the full range of costs or benefits. We spend over $100 billion each year on policing in the United States, yet have very little idea of what keeps us safe. Today's arrests are a result of law enforcement partnerships and hard work.Article - by Barry Friedman and Elizabeth G.

'With two correction officers as members of the organization, the defendants allegedly pushed contraband into prison for resale to inmates. 'Drug traffickers are notorious for their smuggling methods, but this case demonstrated the defendants' ability to bypass security altogether,' DEA Special Agent-in-Charge James Hunt said in a news release. Officials said Warren Green 40, of Pine City, NY, and Patrick Johnson, 27, of the Bronx, both in prison on unrelated felony offenses, arranged for the pot and contraband to be packaged and delivered covertly to the correction officers by Robert Martino (37, of Queens), Malik Holloway and Asha Patterson. The NYC Department of Investigation announced the charges in a six-count indictment Thursday.Ĭourt documents allege that correction officers Christian Mizell, 48, of Queens, and Carl Noel, 32, of Manhattan, received thousands of dollars in bribes to smuggle marijuana and other contraband past DOC security that would later be sold inside the prison. NEW YORK (WABC) - Two New York City correction officers are among seven people charged in connection with a drug smuggling scheme at city prison facilities. AJ Ross has the details on the correction officers accused of smuggling drugs.

Wende corrections officers arrested for contraband 2018 new york state police news