fred&edna
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A very close buddy of mine is related to someone that is VERY close to Burke. Said person was in the works with Burke to get my buddy and I onto Suffolk PD (A LOT of NEPOTISM is involved with all public jobs around here) , but that was derailed when burke was arrested. I am kicking myself in the *advertiser censored* for being a long time lurker but never actually creating a profile and commenting on Burke. Because some of the theories I have heard about him over the years on these threads are just way way off in my opinion.
From everything my buddy has told me about burke in my opinion he's not involved with this.
Again this is all my opinion. Burke is a typical Long Island "public servant" on steroids. Overpaid, underworked and thought he was untouchable. He carelessly gave car that had his gun in it to a prostitute for Christ sake, not something a careful killer would do. Beating up a suspect in NY has strong entrenched unions that help cops (and teachers) get away with just about anything (I had a teacher in my HS that was having sex with student. proof and pics up the gazoo and union helped him continue to get paid for almost 3 years from the school) . So, it gets to many's heads that they are untouchable. Burke was a playboy/cowboy. He did drugs, was caught up in all types of corruption and schemes but I highly doubt he was involved with Rex. He fought off FBI help not because he was involved with the murder but because he didn't want them looking into him. With the FBI around he would have to straighten up.
Just a little James Burke background. No wonder he thought he was "untouchable"... apparently, he was for many years.
Specifically, an internal affairs report from 18 years ago shows that then-Sergeant Burke was attached romantically to a convicted prostitute and drug dealer named Lowrita Rickenbacker. All of her multiple arrests had happened in the precinct in which Burke was a supervisor, but he still claimed to internal affairs investigators that he’d had no knowledge of her criminal history.
Suffolk police investigators concluded that, in 1993, then-Sergeant Burke had a months-long relationship with the prostitution and drug dealing convict, and had on one occasion even left her alone in his car with his gun belt and service weapon in the back seat. The internal affairs report, obtained by Newsday, also substantiated that Burke had, at least once, engaged in a sexual act with Rickenbacker in his patrol car.
After internal affairs probed Burke’s relationship with Lowrita Rickenbacker and substantiated it through testimony and lie detector tests of her and then-Sergeant Burke, it is not at all clear that Burke was disciplined.
Instead, in 2000, five years after the probe was completed, Burke was promoted to lieutenant. Then, in 2002, he was named chief of detectives by District Attorney Spota. In 2012, Burke was named Suffolk County police chief.
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Embattled police chief was promoted AFTER relationship with prostitute: investigator
NEW YORK (PIX11) – A story first broadcast on PIX11 News about corruption charges against the chief of one the country’s largest departments has taken a remarkable new turn. It shows a history of…
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