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    New York Policemen Didn’t Recognize Their Own Off-Duty Chief! May 12, 2008 at 4:29 am · Filed under Politics, Crime & Law Some of NYPD’s finests are in trouble: two undercover police officers ordered a black man out of his parked car with guns drawn … without realizing that the guy’s an off-duty NYPD chief! "How you can not know or recognize a chief in a department SUV with ID around his neck, I don’t know," a police source said. Chief Douglas Zeigler, 60, head of the Community Affairs Bureau, was in his NYPD-issued vehicle near a fire hydrant when two plainclothes cops approached on May 2, sources said. One officer walked up on each side of the SUV at 57th Ave. and Xenia St. in Corona about 7 p.m. and told the driver to roll down the heavily tinted windows, sources said. What happened next is in dispute. In his briefing to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Zeigler said the two cops, who are white, had no legitimate reason to approach his SUV, ranking sources said. After […] Original post by Alex (161 words)