One of the officers, a sergeant since 1992, has been
removed from the Staten Island Task Force pending the Internal Affairs
investigation; the other remains on the force, the New York Post reported
Thursday.



Members of the unit often act on tips from investigators contracted by the
Motion Picture Association of America, which is perfectly legal, but the
payments of hundreds of dollars, which are not, allegedly occurred on four or
more occasions in several New York boroughs.



"We don't give cash to police officers. We work with law-enforcement
organizations by providing information and logistical support, and the police
make the arrests," MPAA anti-piracy official Bill Shannon said in response to
the investigation.



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For the heck of it...I went to visit
http://www.mpaa.com/

and lo and behold...it is "Sorry, this site is temporarily unavailable.

Please check back later."...

but...





http://BOYCOTT-MPAA.com
IS COMING...

AND IT WILL BE AVAILABLE!

I can't get to the page, Code. MPAA got to them, I guess. Can't believe cops would take money from the MPAA...movies, yeah, or tickets...but money is so...tacky!!!! What's Spitzer doing these days?

So pretty soon we're gonna get Cops and Swat teams banging down our doors because little suzy downloaded an old song that she heard on the radio and now can't find it anywhere, and because daddy downloaded a movie that was only out on dvd for a limited time and he's never ever been able to find it ever after that, just because they slipped probably a $20 in their pockets?

Notice how the article says only hundreds of dollars. To multiple people. WOW, they're even cheap to pay the people that want to do the dirty work FOR them. Probably paid them in $5.00s!!!

Link fixed ShadowMom...thans for the heads up
~Code

"thans" was meant to indicate "thanks"

"thans" was meant to indicate "thanks"

Gotcha, Code; gotcha!!!!

But I still can't get it
I'll check back later....

Thanks, Code. THAT ONE I can read!! Suspended means they have a pretty good reason to suspect it's true.

Is anyone really surprised about this?

""We don't give cash to police officers. We work with law-enforcement
organizations by providing information and logistical support, and the police
make the arrests," MPAA anti-piracy official Bill Shannon said in response to
the investigation."

April 30, 2005

MPAA anti-piracy official Bill Shannon announced today that he has tendered his resignation to the MPAA after recent allegations that the MPAA had paid police officers to arrest persons suspected of selling counterfeit DVD's. "I have never authorized cash payments to police officers" stated Mr. Shannon, "I am leaving the MPAA to spend more time with my family."

My opinion of law enforcement officers can't get much lower than it is. But then...I'm from Miami...so, is anybody really surprised about my opinion of this? And before you jump with both feet, not only do I know there are good police officers out there, my daughter-in-law (all 98 lbs of her) is trying very hard to get into the police academy here. As much as I love her, I hope she doesn't make it. She's the most honest person I have ever met.

I am sure if the MPAA has been issueing a few small bribes they have done so in a denyable way - they will have a low-ranking employee somewhere who can take the blame. His superiors only have to say his actions were independant and unauthorised and fire him - with a generous severance package to keep him quiet.

I am not at all surprised. The MPAA can lobby the polititions to do their dirty work, they can manipulate the DOJ, but when it comes down to getting the cop on the street to spend his time searching markets for counterfits rather than, say, watching the market for shoplifters, nothing beats a wad of cash.

"We don't give cash to police officers. We work with law-enforcement organizations by providing information and logistical support, and the police
make the arrests," MPAA anti-piracy official Bill Shannon said in response to the investigation."

This means body armor, guns, bullets, swat team supplies, bonuses, donuts...and coffee too!!

"Is anyone really surprised about this?"


not i, said the little red rooster. friggin piggies

This is what I mean by the corruption of the governement. It is urgent to seek and detroy all these rogue business before our entire society crumble in anarchy!

"This is what I mean by the corruption of the governement. It is urgent to seek and detroy all these rogue business before our entire society crumble in anarchy!"

Not Anarchy.
Oligarchy.
It's already here.

7 years as a cop. walked away in total disgust. everybody asked me why. now you know.

Cop on the take. Just like when cops do a drug bust and some of th drugs mysteriously diappear or never show up in the evidence locker.

captdunsel--Do all the good ones quit, or is it just that we hear so many stories that we believe it's more widespread than it really is?

This doesn't surprise me the local police in this area sell the best drugs. Go figure.

Good one, mroop.

ShadowMom, I'm surprised. I used to live in in Miami-Dade, Kendal area, to be exact. Every officer I met, (through school, had some cop neighbors, I've never had police problems, honest), seemed to have quite a bit of heart. This was as of like 4 years ago now, though. So I don't know what's happened now.

The police over here are currently too busy hunting down pedophiles to do much else - someone realised that every arrest makes headlines, and headlines result in more budget. Its now reached the point where the police have turned to entrapment and the computer-forensics departments are having to turn away investigations for less high-profile crimes. Then you have BT-internet (our largest ISP) blocking access to an undisclosed number of pedophile sites according to criteria it wont even mention, and anyone who speaks badly of this is immediately accused of supporting child-molesters. Complete disaster - blowing out crime out of proportion just because it makes good publicity, at the expense of enforceing others and restoreing the internets reputation as nothing but porn.

Its silly really - the pedophile witchhunt takes so many resources other areas of law enforcement suffer, yet that one crime brings up such public hatred that any attempt to reduce spending on it would be seen as unacceptable. Still, keeps them from messing around with copyright too much - even if our violent-crime statistics are rising steadily.

ShadowMom - I couldn't tell you. I've only known a handful of "good" cops in my life and they didn't stay with the job either because they were killed or because they couldn't stomach it anymore.

my personal opinion is that they probably recruit the wrong sort of people to do the job to begin with which is why we hear so many stories about bad ones.

well i haven't known any non fuckwad cops but hey they do sell the best cocaine dont they?

they recruite by finding mindless sheep, but their grand trick is just to never tell them they are sheep. Master of puppets pulling our strings in relation, to say... DEA agents fighting the non-existant drug war

it's most obvious that the best drugs do come from the police, i mean look at all the statistics! They gotta do SOMETHING with those drugs!

"I am leaving the MPAA to spend more time with my family." the official corporate-agent excuse!! Thanks for that one, mroop!! In my neighborhood, if there is cash involved, the cops know how to get in the front of the line!

Jinkosu, you must realize that the color of your skin and how segregated your neighborhood is has a large portion to how you are treated by cops in the USA and what your perception of cops is. Beware of stepford thinking that everything on the surface here is OK, and dig a little deeper into the diversity pool, my friend!

"well i haven't known any non fuckwad cops but hey they do sell the best cocaine dont they?"

The cocaine that killed Len Bias was extremely high quality and came from a DEA warehouse. Don't ask me how I know that, but it is 100% true.

mroop-


"The cocaine that killed Len Bias was extremely high quality and came from a DEA warehouse. Don't ask me how I know that, but it is 100% true."

I have to admit you have surprised me here. There might be 1 or 2 other people on this site who know who Len Bias was.

of course divulging info like that in a public forum is a good way to get a visit in the middle of the night from some of those cops we all love to talk about.

The Staten Island Task Force last made headlines in 2003, when one of its members, Officer Bryan Conroy, allegedly shot and killed Ousmane Zongo, an unarmed African immigrant, inside a Manhattan storage warehouse.

Conroy and other officers were at the warehouse to bust DVD pirates.

Above from New York Post