Brooklyn DA promises no plea deals for killer of NYPD’s Peter Figoski
Felony muder can hold all five liable
By CATHY HAYES, IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Wednesday, December 21, 2011, 8:00 AM
Updated Wednesday, December 21, 2011, 8:00 AM
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Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is determined to see justice for hero cop Peter Figoski, who’s shooting death has led to the arrest of five suspects who will soon stand trial for murder.
Hynes unsealed the indictments against the five on Tuesday, bluntly stating that his office won’t make deals with any of the accused, even if they didn’t fire the murder weapon.
‘This will be a trial,’ Hynes told the Daily News. ‘There won’t be plea bargaining in this case.’
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With this declaration, he implies that the police are more important than the average victim.
It would seem that he’s not earning his salary.
Argh!
What’s wrong with pleas? It’s good enough for ordinary victims.
(I’m for eliminating ALL plea deals. Force the Gooferment to prioritize. And, we should be about “restitution”; not punishment or even “rehabilitiation” (whatever that is?) and most certainly not enriching the Gooferment by fines. The victim gets squat and the State enriches itself.
Perverse!
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Reinke Faces Life 
Please, don’t make me laff! They are well paid and take even more. Most kops don’t draw their guns ever in their career. In the old days, it was about “keeping the peace”. Now, they are militarized. And, they are enthusiastically enforcing the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” because it puts more money int their pockets. No joke that the tests and training for kops is all about filtering OUT the best and selecting those that will follow orders. Argh! I suggest that we need to retreat to a better time when we had “peace officers” and they would rally the populace to back them up.
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I do think we should go out of our way to protect the ‘men in blue’, since they take a job that many do not want, putting their lives on the line every work shift.
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