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| In Police Rift, Mayor de Blasio's Missteps Included Thinking It Would Pass |
| 2015-01-13 |
| [NY Times] Not long after Mayor Bill de Blasio sat beside the Rev. Al Sharpton at a July summit meeting on police reform, a political adviser gave the mayor a blunt assessment: You have a problem with the cops. Rank-and-file officers felt disrespected by the mayor, the adviser explained, and were dismayed to see Mr. Sharpton, a longtime critic of the New York Police Department, embraced at City Hall. But Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, rejected the notion that officers disliked him. His message, the adviser later recalled, was clear: Everything was under control. That confidence would last until late last month, when the murders of two officers in Brooklyn prompted the department to adopt a stance of rebellion. Uniformed officers protested against the mayor in public, and low-level arrests virtually stopped. Mr. de Blasio, a liberal who had staked his mayoralty on re-educating the police force, is struggling to secure its basic trust. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 ..the problem with that approach is that 'vacation time' is probably written into union contracts while the income generation levels are not. The city management is going to lose that one somewhere on the appeal hierarchy in the judicial system (which by the way is enjoying the respite from overloaded dockets in the slow down). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-01-13 21:21 |
| #6 I read the other day that the official response to slowdown on issuing non-criminal citations is a block on all police vacations until quotas have been met. Gotta keep the funds flowing, donchaknow. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-01-13 19:06 |
| #5 "Loathed, is more Apropiate." |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2015-01-13 18:19 |
| #4 Disliked him? That is an understatement. As PK2 said it is more a matter of life and death...and who has your back. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-01-13 10:22 |
| #3 The mayor being a quintessential pol doesn't understand the very basics of the hunting group (in business for a couple hundred thousand years), you cover each others back. He/she who demonstratively doesn't finds themselves on the outside never to be trusted again except in actual demonstration of 'heroics', in deeds not words, that garner respect of the group. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-01-13 08:15 |
| #2 But Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, rejected the notion that officers disliked him. Typical. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-01-13 04:26 |
| #1 "Remain calm! All is well!!!" |
| Posted by: Raj 2015-01-13 01:43 |