If you want to be a criminal right now, NYC is the place.
After City Hall moved to strip $1 billion from the NYPD budget in the coming years, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea announced Monday afternoon what he described as "a seismic shift in the culture of how the NYPD polices this city." To wit, the largest police force in the country will eliminate its plainclothes anti-crime unit.
No officers will be fired due to the decision; rather, they will be transferred to detective units, or new 'neighborhood policing' units that will focus on the community policing model that some less-radical progressives who favor reform over police abolition have advocated. Shea said the unit is being shuttered because its officers are more likely to shoot suspects, whether armed or unarmed, according to a local TV station.
The decision is a consequence of the two weeks of unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd, while the killing of a black man in Atlanta Friday night by an APD officer has triggered major disruptions in the department, including prompting the resignation of the police commissioner in that city.
Across NYC, the NYPD often has plainclothes officers stationed in park cars around known hot spots - typically low-income neighborhoods where hard drugs are bought and sold, or where gang-related violence is more common. While it's not clear exactly what this unit was responsible for, the connotation is that the department will be pulling hundreds of cops off the street.
Notably, the NYPD decision comes just a day ahead of a White House press conference where President Trump is supposed to outline the administration's policing reform plan, which might be more comprehensive than critics expect.
Poster Comment:
They will be reducing actual numbers of cops from school safety and from something called the homeless outreach. Schools will be organized and compulsory child abuse.
#1: Cynicom To: Horse (#0)
In 1960 I moved out of NYC because it became necessary to have police in schools to PROTECT THE TEACHERS FROM THE STUDENTS. Dregs of human society live there.
Cynicom posted on 2020-06-15 19:54:52 Reply Private Reply
#2: BTP Holdings To: Cynicom (#1)
They have school Resource Officers in Public Schools now in most places.
When I lived in Chicago in late 70s this girl that lived across the street and was in High School came to my front door with her girlfriend. She told me some guy tried to pick her up when she was walking home alone.
I said, "Let's go and we will look for this guy."
We pile into my Blazer and take off toward the High School. We spot this guy a few blocks from the school. I made a U-turn and got behind him.
He pulls over on 4-lane by phone company building and waits for traffic to come and pulls out in front of them. I had to wait for a few cars to go past. But I caught him at gas station next to Post Office 4 blocks away.
The two guys in gas station didn't make a move. The girls got his tag number. I told them, "Write it down now and give it to Rick, the school cop."
They found out he lived right across the street from the school. They put ta good looking blond lady cop out front. He came popping out the door and sees her.
He walks up to her and says, "Hey baby, let's go upstairs and we can smoke a joint."
She gives the signal. They bust him and go upstairs and find weed.
He is sitting in the shitter when I find out. So I tell the guys in the neighborhood, "Get some ball bats and let's go."
We all pile into my Blazer and I head toward the school. I point out the car and go around the block. They jump out of the truck and take all the windows out of the car all the way around. Then they run and jump back in.
I see this guy again a month or two later doing the same thing, hitting on chicks walking alone down the street.
He pulls over on street corner to get out of his car. I have this chick in the truck with me. I tell her, "Get down."
I pull up alongside and holler, "Hey! I see you are sill up to your old tricks." And I was out of there.
People like that do not change. And if he has been in prison they get rid of molesters pretty quick in there. LOL
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-06-15 21:04:54 Reply Private Reply
#3: StraitGate To: Horse (#0)
StraitGate posted on 2020-06-15 21:05:46 Reply Private Reply
#4: Horse To: StraitGate (#3)
Horse posted on 2020-06-15 23:30:01 Reply Private Reply
#5: StraitGate To: Horse (#4)
No, but I can guess that 1) They have cops in them; and 2) They're not safe for children.
Any school with cops in it is not safe for children.
StraitGate posted on 2020-06-15 23:33:40 Reply Private Reply
#6: Horse To: StraitGate (#5)
Horse posted on 2020-06-16 10:17:59 Reply Private Reply