A Federal Judge last week dismissed a lawsuit by an NYPD officer who said he was punished when he complained about quotas in his precinct, ruling that constitutional protections on free speech do not apply because the officer was speaking as a member of the Police Department and not as a private citizen.
Police Officer Craig Matthews of the 42nd Precinct, a 16-year veteran, said he complained to two successive precinct commanders about quotas for arrests, summonses and stop-and-frisks but got nowhere. The first commander, Capt. Timothy Bugge, refused to interfere with how supervisors ran their squads and the second, Deputy Inspector Jon Bloch, threw Mr. Matthews out of his office, the suit contended.
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