We have one or two brethren here getting things a bit mixed up. Whether or not the NYC cops made a mistake isn't the issue in the cop slowdown. The issue is that the mayor of NYC has declared war on the entirety of the NYPD. I'd be turning my back and writing fewer tickets, etc., too, if I was a cop in NYC. You just can't let a mayor run over and run down an entire department. That's a very stupid and a very dangerous thing for a mayor to do. It puts all the cops, good and bad, in jeopardy of their lives.
The mayor is elected. The cops aren't. If the cops and the military are in charge, we may as well hang it up.
You're not fooling me, brother DB, you're way smarter than this. Surely, you're not trying to defend the actions of the NYC mayor. BTW...the cops and the military are in charge, any time they want to be. In this country, we just pretend that they aren't. The boy with the biggest gun is always in charge, (when they choose to be).
I'm grateful for the police and I respect the military but I would say that neither is "in charge". It is the reason the government is so fearful of the population. The elephant in the room is the 100 million armed citizens with at least a passing familiarity with the constitution. They are in charge. Literally.
NYPD's Work Stoppage Backfire: Arrest Rates Plummet At No Cost to Public Safety Maybe the NYPD can use their newfound love of back-turning the next time they see a dark skinned man walking the street doing nothing wrong.
And no one mentions the scheduled contract negotiations between city and the police union this summer. Don't blame the mayor, blame the union for the slowdown.