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  1. Posted

    Date: 04/17/06

    Time: 12:56 PM

    Location: Sprain Brook Pkwy Northbound to I-287 Eastbound

    Frequency: 155.505

    Units Operating: State Police and White Plains PD

    Description Of Incident: 3K14 advises in pursuit of a vehicle northbound Sprain from Jackson Ave, white vehicle, in excess of 115-120MPH. Vehicle now eastbound I-287, White Acura, Connecticut plates. 3K14 advises vehicle is "stopped", I-287 E/B at Exit 6. Multiple SP units as well as WPPD on scene.

    Writer: INIT915

  2. Posted

    Yes, but there still has to be a prosceutor. And who is offering the plea if the Troopers no longer are???

    Having never been in the situation, all these reductions from the troopers come on the day the ticket is due back or does the motorist plead not guilty and then before the trial the ticket is reduced?

    The motorist mails in the ticket (or if a Misd, appears in person) by the date on the bottom of the UTT, pleading guilty or not. Then, if pleading not guilty, depending on how backed up the Court is (up to 2-3 years in some Courts), you receive a Court date and have a pre-trial conference with the Trooper where you try and make a deal. 99.99% end up coming to an agreement, 0.01% go to trial. And as long as you are a Trooper with more than 2 weeks on the job, you will win 99.99% of the time at trial.

  3. Posted

    i'm sure there is something to reduce the ticket. i will have to ask a friend of mine to see if this is really true, because most officers will help if you show up at court.

    As a NYST, you can take my word for it.

    Here in NJ a directive came down from the AG's Office some time ago dealing with ammending tickets. In NJ you are allowed to plead-out to an "unsafe driving charge" twice in a five year period. However the AG excludes Speeding as one of the tickets that prosecutors are able to reduce. There is a rational behind it, but, way to lenqthy to get into it in a single post. Not sure about NYS maybe they followed the same path.

    The rational in New York is reducing overtime costs.

  4. Posted

    Apparently no pre trial pleas to reduce - only the judge or lawyers can work deals  - something along those lines.....

    Ok, here is the short version of the story:

    NYSP Administration are attempting to cut back on Court overtime. Although they claim it is to be 'more fair to motorists.'

    They're plan, as of September 1st, 2006 is to stop having Troopers go to Court to plea bargain the cases and instead have the local DA's and Towns/Villages/Etc hire prosecutors instead.

    The problem is most DA's offices will not handle the V&T Calendar, and since the State is not actually providing any funds to hire hundreds of new ADA's, this issue is far from settled.

    This will be a long drawn out battle between the PBA and SP Administration.

  5. Posted

    Came across a DRAFT copy of the PROPOSED new Battalion listings:

    Battalion 10 - Buchanan, Croton, Montrose, Montrose VA, Peekskill, Verplanck

    Battalion 11 - Hawthorne, Grassland, Pleasantville, Thornwood, Valhalla

    Battalion 12 - Archville, Briarcliff Manor, Ossining, Pocantico Hills, Sing Sing, Sleepy Hollow

    Battalion 13 - Croton Falls, Goldens Bridge, Pound Ridge, South Salem, Vista

    Battalion 14 - Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Elmsford, Fairview, Hartsdale, Hastings, Irvington, Tarrytown

    Battalion 15 - Harrison, Larchmont, Mamaroneck Town, Mamaroneck Village, Port Chester, Rye Brook, Rye

    Battalion 16 - Armonk, Banksville, Bedford Hills, Bedford Village, Chappaqua, Katonah, Mount Kisco

    Battalion 17 - Camp Smith, Continental Village, Indian Point, Millwood, Mohegan, Yorktown Heights

    Battalion 18 - Eastchester, Greenville, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Pelham, Pelham Manor, Yonkers

    Battalion 19 - Greenville, North White Plains, Purchase, Scarsdale, West Harrison, Westchester County Airport, White Plains

    Also saw a separate notice looking for applicants for Deputy Coordinators for Battalion vacancies.

    Why would Indian Point be in one Battalion and Verplanck/Buchanan in a seperate?

  9. Posted

    From Monday to Saturday, 4 to Midnight, the Troopers in uniform, patrol South Central Mount Vernon in their own cars with a Mount Vernon PD partner. They patrol around looking for Quality of Life offenses, wanted individuals and motor vehicles with either suspended registrations, Registered Owners wanted on warrants or 'File One' vehicles. It's Called TRACI, a part of the NYSP's Operation Impact.

    Actually, it is just Thursday, Friday, and Saturday - From 3pm-3am.

  13. Posted

    <<<It is with deep regret and sadness that I must inform you of the line of duty

    death of Trooper Andrew J Sperr, assigned to Troop E, SP Horseheads,

    New York.

    Trooper Sperr was killed early this afternoon in a shootout with bank robbery suspects near the intersection of Lowe Rd and Kahler Rd in Big Flats, N.Y.

    Trooper Sperr was a dedicated 10 year veteran of the New York State Police. He is survived by his parents Jean and Andrew Sperr of Rochester and 10 brothers and sisters.

    Funeral Arrangements are incomplete at this time and further information will be forthcoming as soon as it is available.

    Superintendent Wayne E. Bennett>>>

  15. Posted

    This has not been signed into law yet.  If you would like to read the NYS Assembly bill regarding this you can go to :

    http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A02712

    This seems very vauge. It does not seem to specify how long you should have volunteered, are you active or were you active in the past, etc, etc, etc...

    If it follows the lead of most other Assembly/Senate bills, it won't go anywhere. It will just be reintroduced year after year.

  16. Posted · Edited by INIT915

    Date: 2-25-06

    Time: 1438 hrs

    Location: 7E North James St, Hillcrest Park Condos, C/Peekskill

    Units Operating: Peekskill Police, Peekskill VAC

    Description Of Incident: Caller advises subject entered the residence and shot her brother. Advises victim is conscious at this time. Unknown further at this time.

    Writer: INIT915

    I only caught the initial. If anyone has further, feel free to update.

  17. Posted

    Woman dies when car plunges into Yonkers reservoir

    By WILL DAVID

    wdavid@lohud.com

    AND ROB RYSER

    (Original publication: February 24, 2006)

    YONKERS — Police divers have pulled a woman's body out of the Grassy Sprain Reservoir in Yonkers.

    She was in a car when it crashed through the guard rail of the Sprain Brook Parkway and submerged in the water, Yonkers police said.

    Her fiance, a Mount Vernon resident, escaped and summoned police, but it was too late.

    Police said the call came in at about 6 a.m. The woman's body was pulled out about 7:35 a.m.

    The driver, who was not identified, had walked to a nearby gas station, bloody and wet. He told police that his car crashed into the Yonkers reservoir while he traveling north on the Sprain Brook Parkway near Tuckahoe Road.

    He said his fiancee was still in the car, Yonkers police Capt. Frank Messar said.

    Tethered divers from the New York City police department and the Yonkers police department searched in the icy water while the Sprain's left and center lanes remained closed.

    A Westchester County police helicopter was dispatched to Yonkers to help, police said.

    The driver was taken to the hospital. Details about his condition were not immediately available.

  20. Posted

    I spent all of last week at a Course in Baltimore, MD., which included several (15-20 or so) DC EMS Paramedics and Fire/Medics.

    Keeping in mind I was only getting one side of the story, but if much of what they said was true, it seems like DC FD/EMS is currently in a sad state of affairs, in terms of labor/management and they have a ton of issues to work through. Hopefully some strides can be made so that better working conditions exist for them.

  23. Posted · Edited by INIT915

    Last week, they had a similar issue with a Cortlandt Trooper. The intro alluded to racial profiling caught on tape. News 12 then played the "Tape", a recording made on the cell phone of a passenger in the car, and it was found the Trooper was completely in the right, was very professional and did everything by the book.

    News12 choose to run the "story", and basically, in the end, all they did was run a recording of a textbook traffic stop.

  24. Posted

    Police probe Somers fire

    By BRIAN J. HOWARD

    THE JOURNAL NEWS

    (Original publication: February 5, 2006)

    GRANITE SPRINGS — State Police are investigating whether arson is to blame for a three-alarm fire that destroyed a house whose owners were away in Florida.

    No one was home at 10:11 p.m. Saturday when a fire was reported at 2739 Hilltop Drive.

    Somers Fire Chief Edwin Byrnes declined to comment on the cause but said a hydrant struck by a car two weeks ago ruptured from the water main, cutting off the water supply used to fight the fire and contributing to the extent of the damage.

    The hydrant at Quaker Church and Granite Springs roads flooded the lawn and basement of a nearby home and cost firefighters time while another hydrant 1,800 feet away was tapped.

    The owner's son, Thomas Maffucci of Mahopac, said investigators told him a K9 dog detected traces of accelerant that might have been used to start the fire.

    Maffucci said he had not gotten any threats and couldn't think of anyone who would want to do something like this to his family.