NYPD Chief: "Inappropriate" For Officers To Turn Backs On Mayor Again [Must Bratton Resign?]

CBSNews ^ | December 28, 2014 | REBECCA KAPLAN

[skeeter]

Funny, a police commissioner accusing rank & file police of being political.

Never a clearer case of the pot calling the kettle black.

[wardaddy]

Oh bull

He’s just a mayor of libtardland

Not Churchill

[PCPOET7]

maybe the union but I think that most officers will not forget this

[wardaddy]

Nicely done Ted

[Ted Grant]

Push comes to shove, the NYPD will put their pensions first. Always have.

[BerryDingle]

That funeral was held to honor Officer Ramos, and to bring politics, to bring issues into that event I think was very inappropriate and I do not support it.

DeBlasio is a politician, and an issue, so he should have not attended. Even Sharpton is smarter than that.

[Joshua]

Lovely Warren is reprehensible. The voters Rochester are contemptible for electing this affirmative action clown

[Norm Lenhart]

100% correct.

[Truth29]

Bratton, like De Blasio are unworthy of those they lead. They should be shunned and find that their security details have gone on very long lunch breaks.

[jwalsh07]

Bratton has done a good job straddling the cop/politician line up until now. Now he will have trouble with the rank and file.

[CodeToad]

Seems their chief kisses ass.

[erkelly]

By remembering the greatness of those who held the office before, how can you do anything but turn your back on one who has so desecrated the office and the memory of those who came before?

[Conscience of a Conservative]

Ehh, if you actually take a look, most NYC mayors have been “at war” with the NYPD (or, more specifically, the PBA). Look back at 1992, when they shut down the Brooklyn Bridge because they opposed the creation of a civilian oversight board. One thing to remember in all of this is that, much as they (justifiably) have the public sympathy now, they are, at bottom, a public employee union like any other. And they are currently in contract negotiations with the mayor.

[Jim Noble]

Well, if Billy B. had said, "inappropriate", I'd give him a pass for past good deeds, but "VERY inappropriate?"

Back to Hollywood with him.

[FreeReign]

Respect the office, if not the man holding it.

So then Vilhelm should have respected the police, right?

[GregoTX]

Chief:
The Officers didnt turn their back on Duchbagio, they were watching the area behind them for signs of any potential danger for safety reasons.

[miss marmelstein]

It’s very true that mayors are constantly battling with - as you say - the PBA. But I haven’t seen it this bad since Dinkins, Korean Deli Boycott, etc.

[Darksheare]

Bratton should dunk his head in a bucket of cement and inhale.

[freeangel]

I agree. Same goes for the pos occupying the white hut.

[PoloSec]

We don’t have politicians anymore; only kings, lords and assorted other elites, who rule over the surfs and servants of this once land of the free.