An NYPD Undercover Convicted In Corruption Trial

Detective Jason Arbeeny was being tried on several charges of corruption in relation to his involvement in Brooklyn Narcotics Squad alleged planting of drugs as evidence.

In a bench trial, Judge Gustin Reichbach of the Brooklyn Supreme Court found him guilty on eight counts: two counts of first degree falsification of business records, two other counts of second degree falsification of business records, two counts of offering false instruments, and two counts of official misconduct. This means that he was convicted for covering up crimes and knowingly submitting statements containing false information to the NYPD.

He wasn’t, however, convicted for tampering with evidence (destroying, or concealing physical evidence with the intent to affect the outcome of a criminal investigation or court proceeding), nor found to have been involved in a conspiracy.

Keep an eye out for Tracy Jarrett’s full report on the trial, later this afternoon.

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Prisons have been filled to capacity. Violent criminals, murderers, rapists and child molesters are released early to create space for these so called drug offenders. Half of court trial time and also a huge chunk of police officers time is pointlessly wasted. Enormous untaxed profits from illegal drugs fund multi-national criminal empires which bribe law enforcement authorities and spread corruption faster than a raging bush fire. These laws take violent criminals and turn them into multi-billionaires whilst corrupting even entire countries such as Columbia, Panama, Mexico and Afghanistan. The extreme violence on and south of the border is drug gangs fighting for turf in this lucrative business. The drug laws are also funding the Taliban whose illegal opium profits allow it to buy weapons and pay it’s fighters more than $300 a month, compared with the $14 paid to an Afghan policemen.

Due to the tyrannic and mindless actions of prohibitionists, tens of millions of people world-wide (both users and non-users) have been either killed, maimed, incarcerated or had their lives very seriously disrupted. Prohibitionists are solely responsible for an immense increase in violent organized crime, an AIDS Pandemic, the undermining of international development and security and a grave abuse of human rights on a scale barely witnessed in human social history.

Corporate greed and individual bigotry have accelerated us towards a situation where all the usual peaceful and democratic methods needed to reverse the acute damage done by prohibition no longer function as envisaged by the Founding Fathers of our once great and free nation. Such a political impasse coupled with great economic tribulation is precisely that which throughout history has invariably ignited violent revolution.

In order to avert what will surely be a far more violent situation than we are already experiencing, and to restore our Republic to a system “OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE,” there appears to be just one last avenue left to us – Jury Nullification. If we choose not to use this peaceful means for change then a violent solution may inevitably be forced upon us:

“To function as the founders intended, our republic requires that “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
– Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to William Stephens Smith, November 13, 1787

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” – John F. Kennedy

Jury Nullification is a constitutional doctrine that allows juries to acquit defendants who are technically guilty, but who don’t deserve punishment. All non-violent drug offenders who are not selling to children, be they users, dealers or importers, fall into this category. If you believe that prohibition is a dangerous and counter-productive policy, then you don’t have to help to apply it. Under the Constitution, when it comes to acquittals, you the juror have the last word!

To avoid such carnage and turmoil on a scale not seen in this land since the 1860s, we may have just one last chance: If you wish to see this insane prohibition replaced by a workable policy based on science, public health and sound principles of Justice & Human Rights, one that will ensure a safe future for your children and grandchildren, PLEASE VOTE TO ACQUIT! — We must now create what we can no longer afford to wait for.

November 2, 2011 malcolm kyle

An NYPD Undercover Convicted In Corruption Trial

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