PROBE: Ticket-Fixing In the NYPD. “Police unions, as noted above, have emerged as central players in the alleged ticket-fixing scheme. If a police officer wanted to make a friend’s ticket go away, he would ask for help from a representative of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association and the Sergeants Benevolent Association, according to the wiretap recordings and testimony before grand jury.” Police unions aren’t looking very good this year.