February 10, 2005
The NYPD's dirty laundryNews
Lisa Hazamoon Cahill, an Indian American who was formerly one of New York’s finest, is pissed and humiliated. The New York Daily News explains why:
One of the NYPD’s few Indian officers charges she was treated like a maid by her sergeant, who allegedly ordered her to wash and iron his shirts at Police Headquarters.
“He forced me to … I’m so embarrassed, so ashamed,” Lisa Hazamoon Cahill, 33, told the Daily News in an exclusive interview. “I couldn’t refuse. He wasn’t asking me, he was telling me.
“Maybe he thought because I was Indian, he thought I was submissive,” she added.
Cahill’s explosive allegation is contained in an employment discrimination lawsuit filed Jan. 28 in Manhattan Federal Court, charging a pattern of disturbing conduct by supervisors in the 1 Police Plaza security unit.
What’s up with the New York City government employees hating on Indians?
She said she once loved her job. She proudly recalled being commended in 2001 by then-Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik for stopping a knife-wielding stalker from getting into Police Headquarters.
She appeared in a recruiting video and occasionally represented the NYPD at events attended by the Indian community.
The Brooklyn-reared Cahill, who is of Punjabi descent, said she knew of only one other female cop of Indian origin in the 36,000-member force. Cahill said she was the only cop in the security unit with certification from the U.S. Marshals Service in X-ray screening for weapons and explosives.
Holy crap. Is anyone else scared by that last sentence? Homeland Security???
abhi on February 10, 2005 01:12 AM in News · T·r·a·c·k·b·a·c·k address · Direct link · Email post
It's NYPD. It's no news that they're often a bunch of fuckers, right?
One of my experiences with them (and I'm a nice desi boy) and some ongoing stuff they've done here and the way they mistreated people at the Feb. 15, 2003 anti-war protests in New York here.
Despicable.
The photo of Sgt. Salvatore Rufolo on the NY post webpage has him riding a segway!
See also this post: Sikh cops can wear turbans in NYPD.
abhs, she kind of looks like ruby, don't you think?
New York City cops/
They ain't too smart
There are a few other desi cops but in the other law enforcement arms of NYC. The MTA etc...
and to think i almost joined the nypd...
This officer was great and wonderful on ALL of her annual reviews, photo ops, and even participated in the Brooklyn North's Annual Talent Shows. All of a sudden, she is labeled in negative light by supervisors because she stood up for what she believed in by exposing corruption directly linked to 9/11 amid other areas of the job? She turned to IAB for help and all she got in return was retaliation. Yet, NYPD wants to boast that they promote racial harmony in the city?
THEY NEED TO START TREATING EACH OTHER WITH RESPECT BEFORE THAT. TRINI'S AND ALL WEST INDIAN AND EAST INDIAN PEOPLE KNOW TRAINING STARTS AT HOME, AND NYPD NEED TO CLEAN HOUSE FROM THE TOP RIGHT ON DOWN. THOSE SUPERVISORS ARE STILL IN THEIR CUSHY LITTLE JOBS AT 1 POLICE PLAZA. I AM SURE THERE ARE MORE DESERVING SUPERVISORS WHO ACTUALLY WORKED THE STREETS WHO CAN RUN HEADQUARTERS SECURITY WITH ENTHUSIASM AND CANDOR AND CLASS, UNLIKE THE CURRENT "SUPERVISORS". THOSE TWO SERGEANTS WERE BOTH STOCK BOYS IN SUPERMARKETS AND ONE WAS A FOOD SERVER BEFORE THE CITY OF NY SAID "HERE IS A GUN AND SHIELD AND SOME POWER. NOW GO PLAY COP".
WHERE IS THE MERIT THAT SHOULD EXIST FOR PEOPLE TO BECOME SUPERVISORS? A LUCKY SATURDAY ISN'T ENOUGH TO BE IN CHARGE OF 17 OFFICERS.
NYPD: GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!