Video shows man spray graffiti outside Manhattan courthouse as NYPD cops watch

nypost.com ^ | July 9, 2020 | Amanda Woods

[lowbridge]

Footage posted online this week captured the moment a vandal sprayed graffiti outside a Lower Manhattan courthouse, right under the noses of several cops — who do nothing but watch.

The video, posted by the Sergeants’ Benevolent Association on Tuesday and taken in broad daylight, shows the man tagging the base of a lamppost in front of the Surrogate’s Courthouse at 31 Chambers St., which had already been vandalized amid Occupy City Hall protests last week.

After the man finishes his scrawl, he strolls away, as three cops on the corner — and four on the next block — stand idle.

“Watch this carefully, it’s not another frustrated COVID-19 excuse by de Blasio,” the SBA tweeted. “Nor is it an aspiring artist at work. You are watching a graffiti vandal add to the destruction of a NYC building just a short distance from City Hall and yes the NYPD is not allowed to make the arrest.”

[Alberta's Child]

Let’s see ...

If I’m a cop and I work in a city where I don’t even live ... and the denizens of that city elect a stunted misfit as mayor who makes it his life goal to undermine the work I do ... what would ever motivate me to give a sh!t about doing my job?

[eartick]

Let em burn to the ground

[mewzilla]

The Wrong Cuts The real problem with the NYPD budget isn’t officer headcount; it’s spiraling retiree fringe-benefit costs.

[Salvey]

people will flee and vote for what they fled in their new states

I'm afraid that's true. I don't know what it takes for these benighted souls to have an epiphany and reverse their self-defeating voting patterns.

[Bonemaker]

Police work these days is no place for a man with sense of honor, duty, conscience or integrity. And it shows.

[I want the USA back]

Spray painting isn’t considered a crime unless it paints over a BLM sign, or says “White Lives Matter.”

[TalBlack]

Police work these days is no place for a man with sense of honor, duty, conscience or integrity. And it shows.”””

Frank Serpico exposed that one two generations ago.

[caww]

[hanamizu]

Had he painted over a BLM “mural”, he’d be facing serious charges—the no-bail policy would not apply.

[mass55th]

I'd rather the City spend the money on the cops who work and die to keep the streets safe, than the City paying for other padded departments, illegal aliens, and whatever other $hit programs the Democrats spend the money on, like painting murals in streets. New York's City Council has 3 Republicans on it. 47 are Democrats. It's the Democrats in these big cities that negotiate, and sign the Union contracts in all these Democrat-run cities. That isn't the cops faults. Democrats can't be trusted with anyone's money.

Besides, Cuomo, Bloomberg and other State officials claimed they fixed the pension problem back in 2012:

Governor Cuomo Signs Law to Enact Major Pension Reform

So what's to worry?

[mass55th]

"I would not put myself or leave myself in that type of situation. That’s just me."

That's why the ones who can, are getting out. When I took the job in Corrections, the life expectancy of a C.O. was 58. That was the age I would be after doing my 25 years. I vowed that I would not die while working for New York State, because I'd be doing them a favor. Thankfully, the Lord let me live...many did not.