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This is a tough one. ACAB but landlords are leeches. I'm really torn here.
They deserve each other! :)
We should punish misbehavior by both.
Robert A. Kennedy, a member of the Stoneham Police Department from 2001 until his resignation in February, was accused of running a recurring scam on his landlords, taking advantage of the slow eviction process in order to live rent-free in various apartments.
Federal prosecutors said Kennedy falsified his rental applications, including by providing the social security number and birth date of a relative who shared his first and last name, in order to obscure a history of delinquent payments, evictions and unpaid debts.
What a move... "who are they going to call to assist with the eviction, the cops?"
I've heard Pittsburgh cops specialize in evictions.
Are they having a friendly competition with Philly?
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/landlord-tenant-lockouts-evictions-resume-20230821.html
Holy McShit — Philadelphia has a city-run for-profit eviction system, staffed mostly with retired cops. What drooling savage dreamed up such a system?
In my city it's usually the city marshals who evict people which are very different from cops (structurally and what not).
Points for a good scam, I guess, but he lacks the smarts to pull it off.
To date, only one officer has been fully decertified by the commission, which was created by a 2020 policing reform law to give the state more supervision of police departments and their officers.
I guess the Massachusetts decertification program is better than nothing, but not by much, if in three years they've found just one cop in the whole state who shouldn't be a cop.
I think it's relevant that the recent one wasn't putting innocents in jail, or using excessive force. Scam a landlord though, better watch out MF!
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2023
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