Wiretap recordings of officers in the New York City Police Department could widen a corruption investigation that started as a probe in the Bronx of an officer with drug ties, the New York Daily News reports.

In the tapes, which prosecutors are trying to keep from being made public, the police officers openly discuss fixing parking and traffic tickets for relatives and friends, and they indiscriminately make racially insulting remarks about residents of the neighborhoods where they patrol, the New York Post reports.

Seventeen police officers, many of them union delegates, were indicted Friday in the scandal and dozens more will probably face departmental charges or already have, the News reports.

The indicted officers could begin turning themselves in today, according to the News.

In one example, officer Peter Hans was caught making disparaging comments about "ghettos" in the Bronx, the News reports. The department docked some of Hans' vacation days as punishment, it says.