State Police Superintendent: “I Have Never Heard Of A Rogue Unit”
State Police Superintendent Harry Corbitt was sworn into office this morning by Gov. David Paterson at a ceremony at State Police headquarters in Albany.
Corbitt also made a dozen promotions during the event, including naming Pedro Perez as the first Hispanic first deputy superintendent. Corbitt himself is the first African-American State Police superintendent (his predecessor Preston Felton is also African-American, but he was interim superintendent.)
Aftewards, Corbitt took questions from reporters about the ongoing investigation by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo about whether there has been a “rogue unit” within the State Police conducting political attacks on state leaders.
“During my tenure in the State Police I have never heard of a rogue unit, never received any information and I talked to several superintendents and they have shared the same opinion,” he said.
Corbitt, who joined the department in 1978, continued, “I don’t believe there’s a rogue unit, but that’s what investigations do. They uncover the truth. So I’m going to leave that to the AG’s report.”
Corbitt, 60, said his office has conducted an internal review of police policies and procedures and will release the findings this week.
He also addressed the recent unrelated suicides of two State Police officials, saying “Whenever we lose a person in the State Police, everyone grieves. But we’re also an agency that’s used to catastrophic events and we recover.”
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This is REALLY interesting to know because considering the LEVEL OF KKKism in the NY STATE POLICE IN ORANGE COUNTY it is interesting that there is a BLACK Superintendent.
Hopefully he is NOT CORRUPT like most of the orange county NY State Troopers. If any trooper is offended by this message PROVE YOURSELF WORTHY and be a stand of Police officer.
Because currently the troopers from TROOP F have proved to be CRIMIMINALS! I’m sure there is at least one that is not, but they are probably too afraid that they will be KILLED BY FRIENDLY.
The illegal use of the State Police to spy on political opponents, reporters, state worker witnessess of corruption, whistleblowers and others is nothing new. The Pataki administration has used and continues to use their “friends” in the State Police in order to keep in power. They use illegal wiretaps, GPS devices planted in cars and the illegal use of rank and file officers to follow people around. I would note that the majority of state troopers are law abiding. They are simply taking orders. This is one of the greatest scandals in the United States which will probably be dealt with in Washington one day. We hope!
The only blowhards who can contend with the blowhard-ism of people like Corbitt and Felton are ignorant posters who know nothing and accuse everyone.