Questions for COs

To the editor:

Lately, I have read articles that have gone viral on social media demonizing a young female New York City Correction Captain by the name of Latanya Brown. Recently, she made headlines after she was criminally indicted by federal prosecutors for allegedly using her authority to extort some of her subordinates into buying her expensive gifts and driving her to fancy places.

In this article, this petite grandmother was accused of bullying her underlings to succumb to paying her protection.

However, my question is: how in the world did these correctional staffers allow themselves to be shaken down? How could they be so petrified of her that they reached deep into their pockets to appease her?

But most importantly: if these correctional staffers were that frightened of just one small middle aged woman, how would they have handled working in a housing unit filled with 50 or more violent gang affiliated inmates who would have taken their opportunities to shake them down? What would they have done for protection?  

My question is, would they have succumbed to these violent inmates and provide them drugs and alcohol, would they have put generous money transactions on their books or worse, would they have given them firearms and act as an accessory in their plans to escape?

If so, then that means they should have not ever been correction officers in the first place

Just like I said about former disgraced COBA President Norman Seabrook's entire executive board, who all confessed that they remained silent and even aided and abetted him in illegally withdrawing $20 million dollars of his entire memberships' annuity fund for personal gain, because their biggest fear was being reassigned from their comfy office and having to actually do their jobs as correction officers, interacting with inmates.

 In conclusion, as the public considers NYPD to be the finest and FDNY to be the bravest, NYCD is supposed to be known as the boldest. Bold enough to stand up to any adversarial force that attempts to challenge us & make us submissive.

Always outnumbered and and sometimes outmatched. But regardless of the circumstances, as the boldest we never retreat and never surrender, because we were once told: the moment we do we just contributed to losing the jails and once we lose the jails, we contributed to losing New York City.

Celestino Monclava