Many members of the New York Police Department are furious at Mayor Bill de Blasio and, by extension, the city that elected him. They have expressed this anger with a solidarity tantrum, repeatedly turning their backs to show their collective contempt. But now they seem to have taken their bitterness to a new and dangerous level — by walking off the job.
The New York Post on Tuesday reported, and city officials confirmed, that officers are essentially abandoning enforcement of low-level offenses. According to data The Post cited for the week starting Dec. 22 — two days after two officers were shot and killed on a Brooklyn street — traffic citations had fallen by 94 percent over the same period last year, summonses for offenses like public drinking and urination were down 94 percent, parking violations were down 92 percent, and drug arrests by the Organized Crime Control Bureau were down 84 percent.
The data cover only a week, and the reasons for the plunge are not entirely clear. But it is so steep and sudden as to suggest a dangerous, deplorable escalation of the police confrontation with the de Blasio administration. Even considering the heightened tensions surrounding the officers’ deaths and pending labor negotiations — the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association has no contract, and its leader, Patrick Lynch, has been the most strident in attacking Mr. de Blasio, calling him a bloody accomplice to the officers’ murder — this action is repugnant and inexcusable. It amounts to a public act of extortion by the police.
And for what?
Let’s review the actions that Mr. de Blasio’s harshest critics say have driven the police to such extremes.
1. He campaigned on ending the unconstitutional use of “stop-and-frisk” tactics, which victimized hundreds of thousands of innocent young black and Latino men.
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I don't blame them. People are going to keep pushing until they can get their own 15 minutes of fame on youtube.
ReplyDeleteTime for a SICK out.
ReplyDeleteGood for them
ReplyDeleteHe needs to fire them and rehire. He is the Mayor and should not buckle to big blue.
ReplyDeleteLiberal fool, the idiot ny mayor is a puppet for obama as are YOU.
DeleteRemember when NYC sanitation workers decided not to show up for work?
ReplyDeleteThey have my support. Why risk your life stopping a vehicle with a tail light out. If you get shot the mayor will say it's your fault.
ReplyDeleteScrew the NYT. They're as guilty as DeBlasio in stirring up racial trouble.
ReplyDeleteThey don't want police , so give em what they want , NO protection!
ReplyDelete1:15 And take away ALL politician security... see how they like the laws they've created "for the people"... errr "children"
ReplyDeleteTake the police protection away from the mayor.
ReplyDeleteProves just how IRRELEVANT they really are.
ReplyDeleteNew york gets what they deserve another libtated idiot....
ReplyDeleteLet the mayor's protection unit take him out in public and accidentally do nothing.
ReplyDeleteAll of the cops should get the "Blue Flu" and not show up at all, and let the animals take over the city. Of course with the restrictive gun laws they have everyone will be safe.
ReplyDeleteturn in your badges
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