Westchester rookie cop Joseph Saetta says he was fired for ticketing a lawyer who showed him a PBA courtesy card.

The NYPD officer patrolled Staten Island, where he estimated as many as half the drivers he stopped carried the cards issued by the Police Benevolent Association.

There's no sign of official action since the state comptroller's office slammed the practice of letting drivers with PBA cards off the hook.

That the courtesy cards act as a kind of force-field to ward off low-level enforcement is so widely known as to barely qualify as an open secret.

A Westchester County cop claims he was unceremoniously fired just months into the job for writing a traffic ticket to a PBA-connected lawyer — and is now suing the county in federal court ...

A new report by the Office of the State Comptroller found that troopers have given "preferential treatment" to motorists with courtesy cards.

A Westchester County rookie cop says he was fired for writing a ticket to a lawyer who tried to get out of it by giving him a police union courtesy card. “It’s kind of mind-blowing,” Joseph ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — An NYPD officer from Staten Island has reached a $175,000 settlement with the city in a lawsuit alleging punishment from superiors for failing to acknowledge “courtesy ...

Brill stated. The PBA Courtesy Card presented to him by Pascariu-Costo didn’t list the name and number of the officer who gave it to her, leaving Saetta unable to determine its origin.

A new report by the Office of the State Comptroller found that troopers have given "preferential treatment" to motorists with courtesy cards.

New York City police Officer Mathew Bianchi holds a "courtesy card" in the Staten Island borough of New York, Friday, June 2, 2023. Bianchi is speaking out against the use of "courtesy cards" by ...