When Cops Go Bad Does the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau Even Notice?

Stacy Kranitz

Aiken: hounded by the IAB

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As expected, Jai Aiken doesn't share such a sanguine view of the IAB. Homophobia would seem to be the obvious reason for the rat squad's intense probe of his activities, even after a jury acquitted him. But Aiken was openly gay, even in the station house, so he concedes that he's not really sure why the department went to such lengths to try to get him.

"They came at me with so much aggression," he says. "They was digging—digging deep. If they dig the way they did on me, do an investigation like that for every cop, the force would be empty."