Albany reaches the end of days

Posted by Joel Friedlander | No Comments

We can’t blame the governor for what has happened to him.  He became governor quite suddenly and was unprepared for the role. In addition, he was faced with an economic crisis of monumental proportions that he was completely unprepared for.  As to this recent set of egregious moral and ethical errors, well, he just fell into the existing system.

The political culture of New York fits the profile for a 1930’s film about corruption in some unnamed southern state, more than it does for a huge ethnically diverse one.

Apparently, the State Police Department has become an arm of the governor, rather than a servant of the state.  We have seen inappropriate investigations, shakedowns, and now pure and simple corrupt attempts to intimidate ordinary people.  It is not hard to imagine the state police intimidating witnesses in court actions against the government.

It appears that the entire department is rotten to the core.  The problem is that, unlike the NYPD, it has operated without scrutiny for too many years. The response to just criticism has made the NYPD one of the finest police department in the United States–not perfect, mind you, but among the best there is. The LAPD also changed for the better due to the proper response to just criticism.

It is time to lift up the rock that the State Police are hiding under and see what there is to see.

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