Sergeant Michael Kennedy assigned to the Narcotics Bureau, has been outed. The victim has posted the “nanny cam” footage on Instagram.
It has long been rumored that Sergeant Kennedy was caught on film stealing. Here is the damning evidence.
Kennedy joins others from Narcotics who have been benched recently: Lieutenant Charles Jackson, Lieutenant Anthony Burton, Sergeant Wali Shabazz (also allegedly caught on film) from the 25th District and Sergeant Harold Toomer III.
This is the most enlightening video since then former Narcotics supervisor Sergeant Joseph Bologna’s crew was caught on film cutting what they thought was the only video camera during a raid on a bordega where they were accused of theft. Bologna received a suspension, while only one officer, Jeffrey Cudjik was fired and later reinstated. Yes, the same Joseph Bologna who received a “merit” promotion to Staff Inspector.
Stay tuned.
UPDATE:
This is an article about Kennedy’s father who was also a Police Officer, also named Michael Kennedy and was terminated for theft of money order and then reinstated by an arbitration.
Below is the story from the Philadelphia Inquirer
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The found money order
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At the least, arbitrator Joseph Stone said, Officer Michael Kennedy’s story
was “bizarre.”
Stone concluded that Kennedy may have lied about how he’d obtained a $285
money order after a July 1991 drug raid. Kennedy was one of nine West
Division narcotics officers who had searched the home of a man named Ludwig
Purcell.
A drug charge against Purcell was later dropped, records show. In March
1992, his lawyer approached a prosecutor about a problem: A money order was
missing from Purcell’s home.
Where could it be? The police property receipt for the raid listed not only
marijuana, drug paraphernalia and $2,000 in cash, but also such minutiae as
bank statements, gas bills and water bills. No money order.
None of the officers acknowledged taking anything from the home. But shortly
thereafter, Kennedy remembered finding a money order in a police district
trash can that day.
Kennedy was writing reports and eating his lunch of take-out fried chicken,
he explained, and when he threw away the bones, he noticed three crumpled $1
bills in the trash.
He said he unfolded the bills and found a blank money order inside.
Kennedy, then a five-year veteran, didn’t contact the company that issued
the money order. Instead, he told internal investigators, he posted the
money order on a police bulletin board, along with a note. When the check
was unclaimed two days later, h e t ook it down and gave it to a fellow
officer to cash for him.
The Internal Affairs Division concluded that the money order wasn’t found in
the trash — it was flat with just one crease in the middle, not crumpled,
as Kennedy had said. Anyway, investigators said, the officer should have
placed it on a property re ce ipt, not kept it. Internal Affairs concluded
that Kennedy had taken the money order, cashed it, and lied about it.
At arbitration, FOP attorney Richard McNeill Jr. argued that any of the nine
officers and three suspects could have carried the money order from the site
of the raid to the police district.
What the case came down to — because Kennedy was not criminally charged —
was a failure to fill out a property receipt, McNeill argued, and at most,
the penalty should have been five days off. Arbitrator Stone concluded that
Kennedy had “sought to enrich himself.” Nonetheless, he wrote, it was a
first offense.
“The fact that the grievant presents a somewhat bizarre story in
explanation of his conduct or, indeed, lied about the events which were the
basis for the disciplinary action, does not, in and of itself, demonstrate
that the grievant actually engaged in the misconduct,” Stone wrote.
He ordered Kennedy reinstated in July 1994 without back pay. The officer now
works in the 12th District in Southwest Philadelphia.
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