After almost 30 years of service, he’s earned his pension, and I hope he has a long, happy, and healthy retirement. He made the right choice by not compromising his values, to stay to work for a department that has destroyed the morale of many a good police officer. Had he stayed, he would have only been used by his higher-ups as a scape goat when the $hit hit the fan. I worked for NY State in uniform, under Mario Cuomo. Democrats are good at telling you to do all this extra stuff, with less people. They create a dangerous situation, then tell you, you have to fix it with the least amount of help. De Blasio, and the suck ass administrators at the top of the department are going to get a whole lot of cops killed. The question is, will they be held accountable for it? I doubt it.
He should have retired the minute he was eligible.