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NYPD Investigates Bumping, Grinding West Indian Day Parade Cops
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John Del Signore
Published Sep 13, 2011
Modified Sep 13, 2011
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Although many Gothamist commenters don't see any harm in the "daggering" cops' conduct at the West Indian-American Day Carnival, it seems the NYPD thinks otherwise. Yesterday morning, before we first published this video, we contacted the NYPD's DCPI office (DCPI stands for Deputy Commissioner, Public Information). We asked if the officers' behavior violated any departmental guidelines, and got no response.
Today the tabloids, playing catch-up, worked their NYPD sources. "A police spokesman confirmed that the officers’ graphic dance moves are being investigated," the Post reports, while the Daily News' source says, "It's not corruption. But it looks bad. It's young cops doing something stupid." And it looks exceptionally bad considering the cops were dirty dancing as nine people were shot at or near the parade route that day. But let's not rush to judgment; DCPI hasn't even confirmed these are actual NYPD officers, so for all we know these guys are Hot Cops.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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