| Jersey City mayor faces police ire over halting off-duty jobs |
Mayor Steve Fulop’s pledge to end a program that allows cops to make extra cash working off-duty jobs is leading to howls of protest from the city’s police force.
The program is under fire thanks to a federal investigation that has led to guilty pleas from 10 people, including a former police chief, Phil Zacche. More cops are expected to be ensnared in the probe.
“For too long the program has been abused with police officers more focused on off-duty work than on-duty work,” Fulop said in an email to The Jersey Journal. “The widespread corruption was known by countless officers within the department and the degree of abuse is astonishing.”
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