New York City’s largest cop union is suing Police Commissioner Edward Caban and Mayor Adams for implementing a new “zero tolerance” policy on NYPD officers using steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs, the Daily News has learned.
In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Friday, lawyers for the Police Benevolent Association alleged the previously undisclosed policy flies in the face of a legal agreement the union entered into with the city in 2011.
The 2011 contract prohibited officers from ingesting or possessing any anabolic steroid or other forms of human growth hormones without a medical prescription. However, the old standard didn’t require officers to run any such prescription by their NYPD district surgeon before starting to use it.
The new protocol — which was enacted on Dec. 26, 2023, and described in an internal memo reviewed by The News as a “zero tolerance drug policy” — beefs up the old rule by affirming that officers must “immediately notify their district surgeon” of any steroid prescription they receive and provide “all supporting medical documentation” to the surgeon backing up the need for the drug.
As a pilot can’t use many meds so should a cop not use substances with side effects of aggression.
Yeah! Whoever heard of a zero tolerance policy for drug use?
Oh right…
Well now I just D.A.R.E. the cops to stay off drugs. Just say “no”, you hypocritical bastards
It’s like the conservatives always say! Too big to fail, too criminal to be brought to justice, accountability will lead to lawlessness, rules are made to be broken, party of law and order, don’t tread on me…
and the ultimate classic, whatever you do - don’t be a hypocrite!
D.A.R.E.
I only remember 3 things about the D.A.R.E. program growing up:
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People will offer you all kinds of drugs for free, and marijuana is suuuuuper bad (bullshit propaganda lol)
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No idea what it stands for, other than Drugs Are Really Expensive
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Parody shirts like “D.A.R.E. to keep cops off donuts”
On one hand, I can think of good reasons not to disclose HRT or any other personal medical information to your employer, ‘district surgeon’ or not.
On the other hand, ACAB, get fukt.
I’m kinda conflicted on this… there’s a decent amount of medications that, if your employer knew you were prescribed them, would typically result in being discriminated against or fired. Stimulant meds for ADHD, HRT, chronic pain meds, etc.
If the meds are prescribed for a legitimate need I feel that should remain undisclosed. They aren’t the military (even if they should be treated as such), the government doesn’t literally own them.
They aren’t the military but they do wield lethal force on behalf of the state. It’s not a normal employee/employer relationship at all. With that level of responsibility it seems reasonable that maximum transparency should be expected of them.
Absolutely. There should be real disciplinary actions backed with a potential Leavenworth equivalent.
I still think exposing medical history is kinda skeevy, and would absolutely be used in a malicious and discriminatory way.
i can’t imagine there’s a big overlap between transsexuals and police, friend.
I knew a black trans woman cop in Orlando almost fifteen years ago. She occasionally showed up at the trans support group meetings. I wasn’t really friends with her and we didn’t stay in touch after I moved so I have no idea what she’s up to now.
Funny enough, the support group was run by a trans woman who was a staunch Republican and the leopards kept eating her face even back then.
Hmmm. The people who are called in to bust unions have the strongest union. There’s got to be a lesson here somewhere
