Crooked Cop Michael Carsey Convicted Of Lying To Get Search Warrant

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http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/03/crooked_cop_mic.php

It sure is disappointing when the people we trust to keep us safe from the dregs of society turn out to be the dregs of society.

Enter New York City police officer/convicted crooked cop Michael Carsey, 31, who was convicted this afternoon of lying under oath in order to get a search warrant for the apartment of Antoine Melville, a drug suspect Carsey and his supervisor, former boy in blue Michael Eiseman, detained illegally during a 2007 stop in Manhattan.

In all, Carsey was convicted of two counts of perjury and one count of offering a false instrument for filing after lying to a judge to obtain a search warrant -- and cover the asses of him and his supervisor for the bogus stop.

"Police officers take an oath to protect and serve, and have a responsibility to uphold the highest standards of their profession," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance says in a statement. "Failure to do so risks damaging the reputation of their peers and violating the public's trust."

The illegal stop happened on August 20, 2007, when Eiseman and Carsey -- who was fresh out of the Police Academy at the time, and assigned to the NYPD's Impact Response Team, which patrols particularly bad neighborhoods -- stopped Melville at 3333 Broadway. Following the stop, Carsey testified during a search warrant application hearing that Melville admitted that he had drugs in his apartment, which led a judge to issue a search warrant for the place.

[KansDem]

1. So how many days of vacation will he lose?

[gratuitous]

2. Oh get over it

All this "sworn oath" and "due process" stuff. It's just so . . . inconvenient. I suppose you'd rather have drug dealers crawling all over the place, addicting kids - your kids - to dangerous drugs! We have to be protected. I'm sure Antoine Melville was a very, very bad person in any case. He should be locked up forever. Or summarily executed, he's so very, very bad. In fact, Melville should have just turned himself in, and the plain fact that he didn't should make him subject to being shot on sight.

I'm trying to get this right, so my ideals fit this year's fashion.

[Sanity Claws]

3. NYPD is out of control

I avoid them like the plague.

And I'm a white female.
Thus far, NYPD officers have been convicted of planting drugs on innocent people, numerous times they accused people of criminal actions when tapes show they absolutely lied, beat up people, snoop on people far outside their jurisdiction, etc.

They have lost all credibility.