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Mayor deBlasio Should Fire Protesting Cops and Apply Payroll Savings to Better Things
Dave Lindorff
A huge number of entitled, mostly white cops in New York City, who have apparently been engaging in a two-week job action to protest their boss's (that's Mayor Bill deBlasio's) support for protesters against the police killing of Eric Garner, a black man busted for selling “loosie” cigarettes on the street on Staten Island, may be unintentionally offering the public a demonstration of their own irrelevance.
For two weeks now, the largest police force in the nation has essentially stopped making arrests. According to a lead story in the New York Times today, ticket issuance by police in this city of 8.4 million, is down by 90 percent. The paper reports that:
Most precincts' weekly tallies for criminal infractions — typically about 4,000 a week citywide — were close to zero.
And yet, New York continues to function normally, with people going about their business, secure on sidewalk, street, public transit and in their homes.
Could it be that the city has been wasting much of the nearly $5 billion it spends annually on its over 34,000 uniformed cops (15% of the city's budget)? Could it be that having all those cops patrolling around neighborhoods harassing people — mostly, statistics show, people of color and poor people — by stopping them and frisking them, by busting them for “crimes” like public urination or smoking a joint, or drinking a beer outside, or “looking suspicious” — has been doing nothing to reduce major crimes and violence after all?
If this job action keeps up, and the city doesn't descend into a spasm of crime and mayhem, maybe Mayor deBlasio should live up to his early billing as a former radical activist and start sacking the protesting cops. He could start by having his police intelligence staff look over the photos of the police, nearly all of them white, who publicly dissed him by turning their backs on his eulogies for the two cops who were murdered by a nut-job from Baltimore who decided to kill New York cops to avenge Garner's and Ferguson teen Michael Brown's slayings by police, and summarily fire them.
White NYPD officers turn their backs on New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio's eulogy for a slain cop.
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Source: http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/2621
As I see it the person who wrote this article is biased against whites and lacks the real facts as whites only make up 30-40 percent of the force. Sixty plus percent of the force in New York are minorities! Now for some more truth as De Blasio made it clear to side with black criminals instead of the police which has led to blacks thinking that killing police officers in acceptable. Thus, this has made officers more weary to performing their jobs as fully as they are now having to be even more vigilant in their observations. This of course ends with less interactions between the police and many persons on the street.
SO LEARN THE TRUTH AND SPEAK THE TRUTH, OR SHUT THE HELL UP!