Prior to the recent uproar about the death of Eric Garner, I didn’t have any bad feelings about the NYPD at all. It’s true that I didn’t approve of their policy of stopping and frisking people constantly, but I saw that as coming down from on high, and Mayor De Blasio had promised to make some changes. My overall impression of the NYPD was that they were an impressively professional force that did a much better job than they did in the 1990’s or earlier in my life.
But, now, I am beginning to really resent their spokespeople and harbor some genuinely ill feelings towards them.
This is just offensively stupid and arrogant:
“It is our opinion that Mayor de Blasio’s dangerous and irresponsible comments about his and his wife’s concern for their son’s safety at the hands of the NYPD fueled the flames that led to civil unrest, and potentially to the deaths of PO Wenjian Liu and PO Rafael Ramos, as well as the continued threats against NYPD personnel. The Mayor shows us no respect, and encourages the public to follow his lead.”
You have to be submental not to understand that a police force that has made it its business to stop and frisk black people just because they are black is going to alarm the parents of a young black man. And that doesn’t even get into the history of using violence against black men and asking questions later.
A parent would be irresponsible not to tell their black teenage son to be wary of the NYPD.
I’m tired of the wrong people being maligned.
It will be very telling what de Blasio does. Does he kiss Lynch’s ass and lose those his re-election depends on?
They’ve treated Giuliani and Bloomberg in similar ways–not of course quite this disgusting–when they were negotiating a contract, and de Blasio knows that. I think he’ll keep his head and once they have their contracts they’ll calm down.
This is a repeat performance on the part of the NYPD. I lived in NY in the time when homosexuals had to be wary of being ensnared by NYC police offering their bodies as a snare to arrest you. Yes, the NYCP are a real piece of work—always have been and always will be, especially in these days of Homeland Security domestic armament against the common citizens. I had to get that off my chest. They are RATS!
And .. BDB releases a lame statement re: what Booman linked to above:
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/De-Blasio-Banner-Police-Officers-Hudson-River-286874471.html
Not to mention Giuliani’s statement regarding Obama’s “propaganda” causing folks to hate the police.
Either Bratton disciplines his force or he must go for someone who will. Otherwise, what has happened in New York is the creation of a police city state through a blue coup.
It is clear that there are leaders in the police department who deeply resent the fact that the mayor married who he did and has a son who is biracial. And they resent the hint of an attempt to rein in their absolute control over many New York neighborhoods. The graft must be really good under the Giuliani system. And likely Bloomberg took a hands off approach to the NYPD or coddled them as his private army.
If one didn’t know better, one would think that the police union paid off the mentally ill man to kill two of their colleagues just to change the conversation from Eric Garner.
Given the attitude displayed by this bunch of NYPD officers and their “protectors”, we won’t have to wait long until the next Eric Garner case appears.
“Those who make peaceful protest impossible make…..”
If one didn’t know better, one would think that the police union paid off the mentally ill man to kill two of their colleagues just to change the conversation from Eric Garner.
Just look at what happened to Serpico. Also, don’t forget Akai Gurley. That situation should be talked about a lot too.
I was thinking specifically of what happened to Serpico and of the fact that one hasn’t heard much about organized crime in the past 20 years–at least not as much as before Giuliani was mayor. But then that was always a federal preoccupation, wasn’t it. US Attorney stuff.
During the campaign: de Blasio’s withering criticism of the Bloomberg administration’s stop-and-frisk policy!
○ Federal judge ruled stop-and-frisk tactics of the New York Police Department violated the constitutional rights of minorities
The media play a large role how the present credibility of mayor de Blasio and the police unions are perceived by the public. I watched CNNi for some live reports and was taken aback for its one-sided reporting in favor of the hardline police unions by repeated showing of the video where most, but not all, NY policemen turned their backs on a passing mayor de Blasio. Speaking of undermining one’s authority. The murder of two cops in Brooklyn was a criminal act as is happening daily across the US and elsewhere. Throwing fuel on a burning fire is not the way to act and is quite irresponsible by persons in leadership. Shame on you police union leadership!
○ Next Issue for New York’s Mayor and Police: A Contract
I picked-up on this theme within hours of the cop murders – Mayor Blasio and Black Community Blamed for Terror Killing NYPD.
I’ve known a couple of cops, so I know that being a thin-skinned asshole isn’t required to be a cop. But it does seem to be a major occupational hazard.
(Also, if I didn’t know better, I’d take the behavior of police union spokesranters to be another coordinated effort to discredit unions — at least public sector unions.)
I am campaigning to stop calling them unions. They are “benevolent associations” that act as bargaining agents but they are in opposition to the labor movement.
There are AFL-CIO affiliated police unions as well, in all sorts of places, but not in St. Louis County, Cleveland, or New York City to name a few. All the forces associated with murderous brutality seem to be represented by PBAs.
Is Black Agenda Report’s Glen Ford being alarmist?
Cops Threaten a Blue Coup
deBlasio was elected by an overwhelming majority. 9iu11iani and lynch hate democracy.
I lost respect for the NYPD based on both stop and frisk and their relentless spying and harassment of muslims in NYC. That’s going back many years at this point.
The whole dept is just a mega-version of the problems with police culture all over this country, unfortunately. We have the wrong people becoming cops, the wrong people managing them.
No one is mentioning the fact the policeman who were murdered are from ethnic minorities–Hispanic and, perhaps, Chinese. To blame the black community is pitting the black community against other races besides white.
Fuck the NYPD.
Who should you be working for NYPD?
>I’m tired of the wrong people being maligned.<
Then stop doing it.