NYPD big’s pic with disgraced detective

A HIGH-RANKING NYPD official embraced one of the department’s most notorious ex-cops — and tweeted a picture to prove it.

Louis Scarcella, whose questionable policing tactics allegedly sent several innocent Brooklyn residents to prison, was honored on Wednesday at a Retired Detectives Association of New York dinner in Queens.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce shared a snap of himself with an arm around Scarcella and honoree Lt. John Russo while enjoying the O’Neill’s in Maspeth.

The photo enraged

“Boyce is giving the middle finger to criminal justice reformers, judges who have overturned wrongful convictions and most important to the dozens of men who have lost hundreds of years of life due to the misconduct of Louis Scarcella,” said lawyer Ron Kuby, who has represented a several people who claim Scarcella framed them. festivities at civil rights advocates.