so this is our new city manager. chosen by our 3 newbie city council members. such pomposity. such self importance. and the saddest part is that he's digging in his heels and insisting that he was in the right. making sweeping changes at the 911 call center. he won't admit that he was wrong for tying up an emergency line for a lost briefcase. any other citizen would have been fined for such nonsense.
White rioters are usually called “revelers,” “celebrants” and “fans.” They’re not even called “rioters” in many cases. They’re not derided as “criminals,” “thugs,” “pigs” or even “violent.” Those descriptors, as events in Baltimore Monday night reveals yet again, are only reserved for black people. And the disparate reasons for rioting are just as eye-opening.
The people now calling for nonviolence are not prepared to answer [difficult] questions. Many of them are charged with enforcing the very policies that led to [Freddie] Gray’s death, and yet they can offer no rational justification for Gray’s death and so they appeal for calm. But there was no official appeal for calm when Gray was being arrested. There was no appeal for calm when Jerriel Lyles was assaulted. (“The blow was so heavy. My eyes swelled up. Blood was dripping down my nose and out my eye.”) There was no claim for nonviolence on behalf of Venus Green. (“Bitch, you ain’t no better than any of the other old black bitches I have locked up.”) There was no plea for peace on behalf of Starr Brown. (“They slammed me down on my face,” Brown added, her voice cracking. “The skin was gone on my face.“)
“According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, the pro-police site that tracks every officer death, not a single police officer has been killed by a suspect so far this year.
Line of Duty Deaths: 14
Automobile accident: 5
Heart attack: 4
Struck by vehicle: 2
Vehicle pursuit: 1
9/11 related illness: 1
Gunfire (Accidental): 1
In fact, being a police officer isn’t even close to being in the top 10 most dangerous jobs in this country. According to the 2013 report by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics on work-related fatal injuries, “Police and sheriff’s patrol deputies” ranked as the 41st most dangerous occupation.”
kind of blows a big hole in the “they put their life on the line every day” mantra we are fed incessantly.
I cannot emphasize enough how much I dislike Patrick Lynch, the head of New York’s largest police union:
Police union officials blasted Mayor Bill de Blasio Saturday, saying the blood of two NYPD cops who were shot and killed in Brooklyn is on his hands.
“There’s blood on many hands tonight. Those that incited violence on the streets under the guise of protest that tried to tear down what NYPD officers did every day. We tried to warn it must not go on, it cannot be tolerated,” Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch said. “That blood on the hands starts at City Hall in the office of the mayor.”
“Those who allowed this to happen will be held accountable,”
What a bunch of bullshit.
It is predictable—and disgraceful—that the head of New York’s largest police union would dance on the graves of dead police officers to undermine legitimate calls for reform in his department. Patrick Lynch was silent while thousands of Black bodies had their Constitutional rights violated by the NYPD. He was silent while the taxpayers of New York City paid out $500 million in NYPD-related settlements over the past five years. He was silent while NYPD Detectives admitted in open court that it was common practice for NYPD narcotics officers to plant drugs on innocent people. And he certainly wasted no time defending the officer who killed Eric Garner, despite the fact that he blatantly violated NYPD regulations banning the use of chokeholds.
It was 43 years ago that Frank Serpico testified in front of the Knapp Commission about the rampant corruption in the NYPD. And if you asked him today, he would tell you little has changed. And that’s a bad thing. Because whenever and a large portion of the population feels that justice has not been done, radical, fringe, and/or unstable people who feel aggrieved by that injustice will, if enough time is allowed to pass, take drastic, extreme actions to vindicate themselves. This is not the first time that a mentally unstable rogue shooter took out their frustration on the police. Remember Christopher Dorner? There is a facebook page dedicated to him that had thousands of likes with 48 hours of his flight from L.A. authorities. Did they stop for a second to wonder how such a thing could be possible?
That kind of sympathy for a cop killer can only exist in a world where law enforcement institutions have completely failed to effectively route corruption and misconduct within their ranks. Only in a world where large portions of the population believe that the police can murder people with zero consequences will thousands of people sympathize with the likes of Chris Dorner.
Outbursts of violence like this are not the result of protests against police brutality. They are a predictable result of decades of resistance to calls for reform in police accountability measures, which have led to an atmosphere in which large portions of the population distrust the police. Many people feel that the police never suffer any consequences for their wrongdoing. And even if they do, we could never know because the NYPD is notoriously secretive. This might not be the case if Patrick Lynch and his predecessors had not so vigorously resisted reforms in the NYPD at every turn. But they did, and here we are.
The only people who conceivably have blood on their hands here are Patrick Lynch and his predecessors. PBA union officials have repeatedly resisted every attempt to bring the type of transparency and accountability to the NYPD that would increase public confidence in the City’s Police Department and reestablish the trust of the communities they are supposed to serve. When public trust in the NYPD increases, overall resentment of the police diminishes, making police officers safer, and their jobs easier. But Patrick Lynch refuses to see this, even when it is right in front of his face. And so when the next NYPD officer gets tragically gunned down, Lynch will continue to place the blame on the people trying to help him, rather than where it belongs: square on the shoulders of Patrick Lynch and his peers in the police union.
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