So, PBA members are more likely to honor a PBA card; FOP cops prize FOP cards more highly. One more complication: Cameras in police cars now record when cops let citizens slide.

They’re real-life “get out of jail free” cards — but they’ll cost you. ... “Jimpat99” on eBay auctioned his PBA card for $60.

The State comptroller estimates there are hundreds of thousands of PBA cards in circulation in New Jersey. “They should just do away with it. It makes the police officer’s job harder when they ...

He was personally offered a PBA card from a student over 20 years ago, but chose not to accept it. "I think it's a bad idea to have some people be able to show a card and be excused," said Dr Clear.

Many New Jerseyans would say that using a PBA card during a traffic stop acts as a sort of “get out of jail free” card. But there is some mystery surrounding the cards.

A Westchester County cop claims he was unceremoniously fired just months into the job for writing a traffic ticket to a PBA-connected lawyer — and is now suing the county in federal court ...

There’ve been a flurry of stories written recently about NYPD officer Matthew Bianchi for a peculiar reason: he tried to equitably enforce the law, an anomaly in the department.

The dinner also saw the PBA reissuing a Silver Card to Paul Cacicedo, Jr. who was initially given the award in 1991. While Soos and Detective Tim Dowd joked that Cacicedo lost the card, ...

The 1986 AIDS Comedy ‘A Virus Knows No Morals’ Resonates In Our Nasty Era ...

A PBA card is pictured in an undated photo. As a matter of practice, Bianchi said, he uses his discretion, as cops are allowed to do, and will sometimes cut a driver a break whether they have a ...

A 25-year veteran Montclair State University police sergeant accused of trading his PBA card for forged insurance documents has entered a diversionary court program to resolve the charges against ...