Spring Valley mayor issued warning for using illegal emergency lights to get through mall traffic
The Rockland Urinal News broke the story on Spring Valley Mayor Darden using illegal emergency lights to get through mall traffic.
For this gross abuse of public trust, what happens? Did he get charged with public corruption? Did he resign? Did he apologize? Did he get charged with class E felony criminal impersonation of a police officer? Maybe he was issued a ticket for having illegal red lights?
No, he got a warning from the Clarkstown Police. We can only speculate, but here’s why we think this is so.
As many readers here know, Clarkstown is said to be the 2nd Safest City(tm). Everyone’s entitled to their own interpretation of that statistic. To the writers here, it is actually a farce that is used to justify high property taxes and unjustifiably high salaries and benefits for municipal employees including police. But Clarkstown Police claim it is because of strategies including using completely unmarked cars with officers in plain clothes carrying only a badge that we are so safe. Mayor Darden was simply establishing a low profile presence and policing the area during the busy holidays. He is just pitching in with the effort to keep the mall free of crime. We are the 2nd Safest City(tm) because even neighboring town’s mayor have police lights now and patrol our streets at no cost to us! The officer that issued him a warning was merely saying thanks to Mayor Darden for helping pitch in and keep the crime down in the 2nd Safest City(tm).
The Urinal News claimed that it would follow up on this story, but it did not.
Tags: clarkstown, criminal, impersonator, mayor, new york, police lights, rockland, undercover, unmarked car
December 25th, 2007 at 11:56 am
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December 25th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
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June 1st, 2008 at 3:46 pm
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