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Loose rules let state police hand out lax penalties for serious misconduct

State troopers used the badge to settle personal scores and elicit favors

BY SAMMY SUSSMAN New York Focus
Posted 2/13/26

This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. This article was published in partnership with The New York Times.

An investigator with the New York State Police helped get a friend’s traffic tickets reduced “in exchange” for her sexually explicit photos, according to a disciplinary letter from 2017.

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