New York City on Tuesday reached a $175,000 settlement with a Staten Island police officer who said he had been a victim of retaliation for giving traffic tickets to people with connections to the upper echelons of the Police Department.

The officer, Mathew Bianchi, filed a lawsuit against the city last May. The suit said that he had been transferred out of his precinct’s traffic unit after Jeffrey Maddrey, then the chief of patrol and now the department’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, asked that he be punished. Officer Bianchi had issued a ticket to a woman with whom Chief Maddrey was said to be friends, according to the suit.

“This settlement is a vindication for our client, allowing him to close this chapter and continue his service with the N.Y.P.D.,” John Scola, Officer Bianchi’s lawyer, said on Tuesday. “We hope that Officer Bianchi’s courage and this decisive outcome will inspire other officers to come forward as whistle-blowers.”

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      Insulting me doesn’t change the fact that he only supposedly fought the corruption when he got demoted. Or do you think that’s the only corruption he ever witnessed as a cop in Staten Island?

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        According to the post description, he was punished AFTER he ticketed the higher ranking cop’s friend. Where did you pick up the being punished before part?

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          That doesnt affect what they said. Ticketing a cops friend wasnt fighting corruption, only fighting retaliation for it is

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              Im not claiming he shouldnt have done either. Im saying that on its own isnt fighting corruption. So its not proof that he cared about corruption before it personally affected him.

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                the man demonstrated integrity by not giving in to pressure. if he never cared about corruption he would have just said fuck it and let all the offenders off like his peers asked him to. then yes, after all that he filed suit for retaliation, as he should have.

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        change the fact

        There’s your failing.

        I’m not saying he did or did not see whatever supposed corruption you’re saying is going on.

        However, you’re trotting out the usual ACAB trope when you have the same level of knowledge as anyone else - that is to say, fuck all. There’s little to support your assertion of a “fact” here at all.

        I’m not arsed one way or another whether you like cops or not, but at least make your arguments make sense.