The WORD’s Senior Editor Colleen Siuzdak is running down this story first reported by Leonard Levitt on his NYPD Confidential, about New York’s Finest (several of whom have been indicted in a ticket-fixing scandal; check out NY Daily News, Your Free Press, Huffington Post, Hizb ut-Tahrir America, et. al).
It’s not easy being a student journalist going after the same stories that the mainstream media seeks (or should be seeking) but if any student-journalist can do a good job, it’s Siuzdak, who has spent the past few days trying to nail down a dozen sources before she publishes her first stories.
More later.
Tags: cop reporters, NYPD, NYPD ticket fixing, police scandals