Damn, butthurt at an elected (by a massive margin too) leader, so refusing to do their jobs. Which strangely enough, is not turning out to be that bad of an idea because people arent getting the ole chockey for selling a cigarette or drinking a beer on their front porch. 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. 2. He called for creating an inspector general for the department and ending racial profiling. 3. After Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, was killed by a swarm of cops on Staten Island, he convened a meeting with the police commissioner, William Bratton, and the Rev. Al Sharpton, giving Mr. Sharpton greater prominence than police defenders thought he should have had because Mr. Sharpton is a firebrand with an unsavory past. 4. He said after the Garner killing that he had told his biracial son, Dante, to “take special care” in encounters with the police. 5. He generally condoned the peaceful protests for police reform — while condemning those who incited or committed violence — and cited a tagline of the movement: “Black lives matter.” The list of grievances adds up to very little, unless you look at it through the magnifying lens of resentment fomented by union bosses and right-wing commentators. The falling murder rate, the increased resources for the department, the end of quota-based policing, which the police union despised, the mayor’s commitment to “broken-windows” policing — none of that matters, because many cops have latched on to the narrative that they are hated, with the mayor orchestrating the hate.: mobile.nytimes/2014/12/31/opinion/when-new-york-city-police-walk-off-the-job.html?referrer=&_r=0
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 01:46:29 +0000