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Speeding Cop Loses Job
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1995, page 11
A New York police officer, Steven Schwartz, liked life in the fast lane. His personalized license plate read "MY T QUICK". Schwartz was also "MY T DEADLY". While responding to a police call m 1987, Schwartz struck and killed a pedestrian in a crosswalk when he ran a red light ...
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