Deputy Chief Michael Marino threatens cops at 79th Precinct who want to go on summons strike
By Rocco Parascandola - New York Daily News

A top NYPD supervisor drew a line in the sand, daring Brooklyn cops to carry out a threat to stop writing summonses for a day, police sources said Tuesday.

The Daily News reported Sunday that officers assigned to the 79th Precinct were so angry over alleged ticket quotas that they talked about not writing summonses for 24 hours in protest.
The sources said Deputy Chief Michael Marino marched into the Bedford-Stuyvesant precinct at roll call Monday with a deputy inspector and read cops the riot act.

"Just try it," a police source quoted Marino as saying. "I'll come down here and make sure you write them."

Another source said Marino vowed to transfer people, like he did when he was the commanding officer of the 75th Precinct in East New York.

In 2006, an arbitrator ruled that Marino broke state labor laws by punishing cops who did not meet ticket and arrest quotas.

"A lot of guys were really [angry] by the time he left," said a 79th Precinct police source, referring to the Monday tirade. "The younger guys, they're scared. They'll listen. The older guys are not going to stand for this."

Marino - second in command in Brooklyn North - didn't respond to requests for comment.
Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said Marino never threatened anyone with a transfer. Instead, he came to roll call to remind officers that issuing summonses was about "protecting people, not numbers."

The 31-year NYPD vet was named in a $50 million lawsuit filed by Officer Adrian Schoolcraft, who accused cops of forcing him into a psych ward for blowing the whistle on quotas in the 81st Precinct in Brooklyn.

Audio tapes showed that Marino was one of the cops who pulled Schoolcraft from his Queens home.

Lt. Robert Gonzalez, president of the NYPD chapter of the National Latino Officers Association, was outraged that Marino attended Monday's roll call. He wants Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly to investigate Marino's conduct.