[DuncanWaring]

Related:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2909993/posts

[CodeToad]

Cops rarely protect anyone in the first place, so I don’t think anyone would notice. In New York City the cops are the criminals. If anyone is on the take they are. No one protects the people from the cops.

[Sir Napsalot]

Really? New Yorkers?

Might as well keep the loon in NYC. Don’t unleash this guy onto the rest of us.

[MEGoody]

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recommended that America's police officers should go on strike and refuse to protect people until gun control legislation which would allegedly make them safer is enacted.

Of course, they'd still protect the mayor. All those unarmed New Yorkers would be the ones suffering the results of this idiot's suggestion. The armed citizens would be able to protect themselves.

By the way, doesn't Bloomberg realize this would decrease the size of his liberal base and result in him getting tossed out of office?

[A Strict Constructionist]

To serve and protect went out the window a long time ago.

[SMM48]

Does anyone care (outside of NYC) what this little egotistical asshat has to say?

[buffaloguy]

The don’t protect people, they do the paperwork.

No work, no pay.

[Jonty30]

Hey, no problem, I’ll just be much more motivated to protect myself and my fellow man.

[mikrofon]

Perhaps to some the motto should be- "We Serve To Collect.*"

[Bender2]

Re: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recommended that America's police officers should go on strike and refuse to protect people until gun control legislation which would allegedly make them safer is enacted.

Okay, Bloombut, try walking through nighttime Central Park without any police protection or media groupies along... then tell me how gun control keeps the average citizen safer--

[TomGuy]

refuse to protect people until gun control legislation which would allegedly make them safer is enacted

That would only work if everyone had his/her own personal policeperson.

Bloomberg is clueless, apparently.

The proportion of police to citizen is very small. And, police usually react to situations that have already occurred.

[Dead Corpse]

No more "revenue enhancement" patrols? No more DUI/Safety roadblocks? We get to take care of criminals by ourselves without having to worry about being mistakenly shot or persecuted later?

Where do I sign up?

[veritas2002]

Let’s all remind that idiot Bloomberg that Norway has very strict gun control laws and yet just last year a crazed man massacred an awful lot of people - very many of whom were children. So how does idiot Bloomberg explain that?

Just goes to show you that you can have all the money in the world and still be an idiot.

Betcha Bloomberg is in favor of abortion...50 million human lives were killed since Row v Wade.

[petro45acp]

As was posted earlier, Police have NO duty to protect individuals. The “To Protect and Serve” decal that used to be on many PD prowl cars has likely gone the way of the honest to God beat cop, and police without body armor and a thigh rig.

Allthough a bit older (1999), check out “Dial 911 and Die” by Richard Stevens, Garn Turner, and edited by Aaron Zelman.

Stay alert

[Buckeye McFrog]

Hey, Nooooo Yawkahs,

How does it feel to have a completely demented ego-obsessed maniac as your Mayor?

[coconut47]

New Yorkers voted for Bloomberg. wonder how that’s working for them now?

[DTogo]

Police officers are the only/final thing keeping this country from a quick descent into chaos and civil war.

Inner cities would explode, Occupiers would run rampant, and 2nd Amendment exercisers would mop up.

Go ahead Mike, put the NYPD on a 30-day furlough.

[Wurlitzer]

What is it with those who should know better that they would want us unarmed? Do they want to see us go into the same showers as their fellow believers did?

When I look at the names of those who would disarm us, those who support Marxism over our founders, those who write books about how to lie in every aspect of public debate, those who use all the lying tactics to brainwash us via the media.... etc, I am very concerned that a group we usually hold in high esteem, is actually our enemy. Some times the most dangerous enemy does not carry a weapon other than deception.

[Joe Brower]

Just the sort of thing you'd expect a little Hitler like Bloomberg to say.

I'm not in your 'hood, Bloomie, but if I did, it would be go ahead -- I'm calling your bluff. I don't rely on your guys anyway; never have, never will. Won't bother me a bit.

Same goes for my local Sheriff, or anyone else who would even suggest such a self-serving stunt.

[chatham]

Maybe Bloomnerg should shut the Hell up.