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Mayor, Commissioner Condemn NY Cops Again
GOP USA ^ | 1/6/2015 | Colleen Long

Posted on 01/06/2015 8:16:00 AM PST by HomerBohn

Mayor Bill de Blasio, his administration threatened to be overwhelmed by a rift with rank-and-file New York Police Department officers, on Monday condemned the thousands of cops who turned their backs to him during a pair of funerals for slain police officers.

In his first public remarks on the officers' protests, de Blasio said the cops' searing rebuke was hurtful to the families of the two officers killed in an ambush last month and was an offense to the city at large.

"Those individuals who took certain actions the last two weeks, they were disrespectful to the families involved. That's the bottom line," de Blasio said at a news conference held at police headquarters. "I can't understand why anyone would do such a thing in the context like that."

De Blasio has faced public police protests four times since the brazen daytime ambush on Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu: at the hospital where their bodies were taken, at a NYPD graduation ceremony and when he delivered eulogies at both officers' funerals.

He has stayed silent on the matter for two weeks, not making himself available for reporters' questions even as declining arrest numbers have raised concerns about a possible NYPD work slowdown. But on Monday he responded during a carefully choreographed news conference with Police Commissioner William Bratton that touted the city's record low crime levels but also was clearly intended as a public display of support from City Hall to the NYPD.

Bratton continued to back de Blasio during his widening rift with the rank and file, saying he was "very disappointed" in the officers who did not honor his request to refrain from protesting at Liu's funeral on Sunday.

"A funeral is not the place for that," Bratton said. "Come demonstrate outside City Hall. Come demonstrate outside police headquarters. But don't put on your uniform, go to a funeral and engage in a political action."

(Video at link)

The chasm between the police unions and de Blasio has created the biggest crisis of his tenure. The unions have blamed de Blasio for permitting protests over police conduct that has, in turn, fostered an anti-NYPD atmosphere they believe contributed to the killings of the officers.

Disrespected NYPD officers again turn backs to de Blasio. Disrespected NYPD officers again turn backs to de Blasio. Patrick Lynch, head of the city's rank-and-file police union, has repeatedly said de Blasio had "blood on his hands" from the deaths and has supported the officers' rights to protest. He declined to comment about the mayor's remarks Monday.

But Edward Mullins, head of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said de Blasio was using the slain officers' families to "deflect what's really happening."

"The truth of the matter is the mayor knows there is bad blood between the rank and file," Mullins said. "And the mayor wants to pretend like he didn't create it, but he did."

De Blasio pointed to the historically low crime numbers, even as stop and frisk has declined dramatically, as proof that it was possible to create a "safer city" and a "fairer city." Overall crime was down 4 percent and there were 332 homicides, down from 335 last year. There were nearly 75 percent fewer stops and frisks.

But for the second straight week, the number of summonses for minor criminal offenses and traffic and parking violations decreased by more than 90 percent compared with the same week a year earlier, statistics show. The figures first plummeted in the week after the two officers were killed. Arrests for more serious offenses were also down 55 percent.

Both the mayor and police commissioner urged New Yorkers to look at the overall figures showing that crime continued to decline - not the minutia of a couple of weeks over the holidays that were marred by tragedy and flooded with protests that took officers away from routine duty. Bratton said he would take an intimate look at the numbers to determine whether anything nefarious, like a deliberate slowdown, was going on.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; blasio
Most of the NYPD asked that de Blasio NOT attend any more police officer funerals….then the mayor decided to disregard their wishes by showing up to get some prime time photo ops. I believe that De Blasio is an enemy of the police department judging by his remarks about his halfrican son being afraid of the police.
1 posted on 01/06/2015 8:16:00 AM PST by HomerBohn
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To: HomerBohn

The NYPD should have a good old fashion blue flu to clear things up with deblasio


2 posted on 01/06/2015 8:19:04 AM PST by Ghost of SVR4 (So many are so hopelessly dependent on the government that they will fight to protect it.)
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To: HomerBohn

All they did was turn their backs on him. That is not illegal and it does not harm public safety. City social services workers said much worse about Rudy Giuliani — calling him a Fascist; claiming that his budget cuts were starving children — yet he didn’t whine and cry like a baby about it. De Blasio is not used to having his extreme, dangerously liberal positions criticized, even in a silent protest like this.


3 posted on 01/06/2015 8:19:14 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: HomerBohn

http://www1.nyc.gov/home/contact-us.page

Walter Wilhelm can be told to SU from that page.


4 posted on 01/06/2015 8:19:58 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: HomerBohn
"Those individuals who took certain actions the last two weeks, they were disrespectful to the families involved.

Bet the families don't back him on this. He may think the best defense is a good offense, but he has no footing from which to mount an offense.

5 posted on 01/06/2015 8:20:23 AM PST by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: HomerBohn

Someone needs to remind dip Sh!tio and his right-hand man of the first rule of holes: When you’re in one, quit digging.


6 posted on 01/06/2015 8:21:36 AM PST by RobinOfKingston (Straight ahead, and don't bunch up.)
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To: HomerBohn

“”Those individuals who took certain actions the last two weeks, they were disrespectful to the families involved.”

DeB was in a bad position. He made it worse.


7 posted on 01/06/2015 8:22:28 AM PST by TexasGator
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To: HomerBohn

They are doubling down on their own stupidity. Never piss of the guys who protect you. The Roman emperors learned that quite well.................


8 posted on 01/06/2015 8:22:29 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: HomerBohn
"Those individuals who took certain actions the last two weeks, they were disrespectful to the families involved. That's the bottom line,"

These Communist leaders NEVER take responsibility for their personal failures.

Hey Bill, they turned their backs on YOU!

9 posted on 01/06/2015 8:22:51 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: HomerBohn
"de Blasio said the cops' searing rebuke was hurtful to the families of the two officers killed"

Sorry but I can't connect those dots - how is this disrespectful? Now showing up or speaking at the funeral of men you helped get killed - THAT'S disrespectful.

10 posted on 01/06/2015 8:24:23 AM PST by circlecity
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To: HomerBohn
de Blasio said the cops' searing rebuke was hurtful to the families of the two officers

de Blasio's use of these families as human shields is cowardly and disgusting

11 posted on 01/06/2015 8:26:55 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: RobinOfKingston

Were Police Commissioner William Bratton to be a man of honor, he shall soon have to decide whether to resign his position, or to be completely silent in public in regards to the actions of the rank and file within NYPD as applied to shows of respect toward Da Mare.


12 posted on 01/06/2015 8:28:00 AM PST by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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To: HomerBohn

FN commie scumbag can’t help himself.


13 posted on 01/06/2015 8:30:42 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: HomerBohn

Be Blowjobio’s wife showed up to the funeral in jeans? Seriously?


14 posted on 01/06/2015 8:33:09 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If black lives really mattered they'd be burning abortion clinics to the ground instead of 7-Elevens)
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Bratton and DeBlasio's joint presser Monday had Big Bird patting himself on the back for 20 whole minutes.....he and Bratton took all the credit for the "lower crime rate".....

LOWER CRIME RATE? Better look again----no doubt Bratton relied on the scam he used when he Commissioned under Giuliani: manipulate the stats--refigure the way crimes are reported....eliminate some crimes from the statistics.

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Big Bird clearly lied about the purpose of the presser.....the whole point was to assemble the press corps as a sounding board.....so ego-driven Big Bird could whine about cops turning their backs on him.

Bratton was clearly coached to attack cops---as the way to massage Birdman's bruised ego.

Blabbio's knee-deep in bird doo---and the "Progressive genius" still hasn't figured how to get out of it----except by bashing cops.

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It was astounding to see Bratton at the presser----practically prostrate, all puckered up, sucking up to Blabbio--- vitrolically bashing cops.

Is Blabbio buying Bratton's loyalty? Let's connect the dots.

<><> Blabbio recently announced he "showed his support" for cops by giving Bratton $132 million;

<><> the city's procurement bulletin notes that Bratton's close pal is getting a cushy no-bid deal from the NYPD. Read on.

NY POST REPORT EXCERPT---The NYPD is poised to issue a no-bid contract to a pal of Commissioner Bratton.......the deal with Strategic Policy Partnerships is to fulfill Bratton and Mayor de Blasio’s mandate to fix community policing in the wake of the Eric Garner case.

The contract subsidizes training for high-ranking police officers to mend community relations and enhances cadet training.... according to City Record, the official publication for NYC procurements.

The no-bid firm is headed by Bratton friend, Robert Wasserman, onetime partner in The Bratton Group--a L/E consulting firm Bratton ran before taking NYPD’s top job last January....the two pals raked in more than $53,000 on a contract with the Baltimore Police Dept in 2013.....and as L/E consultants in Oakland, Calif, where Bratton earned $125,000.

Wasserman founded Strategic Policy Partnerships in Feb 2012. He served as a consultant (a) during Bratton's tenure as LA's police chief 2002-2009, and, (b) when Bratton was NYPD commissioner in 1994 (under Giuliani).

Wasserman's more recent contract entitled, "the transition of the Bratton administration in 2014” was funded by the n/p "Police Foundation..."

But the new no-bid deal will be financed by taxpayers.....tax dollars will be flowing like Proressive BS.

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That whining sound you hear is Bratton saying: "What's my cut?"

15 posted on 01/06/2015 8:33:45 AM PST by Liz (Pres Reagan on govt shutdown: "Let's close it down and see if anyone notices.")
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To: HomerBohn
No Mea Culpa or apologies from communists, always turn it around.

16 posted on 01/06/2015 8:38:28 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Liz

-——The contract subsidizes training for high-ranking police officers——

Translation: Political indoctrination session

Ie: do not screw with the Mayor


17 posted on 01/06/2015 8:49:49 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: HomerBohn

Dear New York;

You elected a man who can’t even speak correctly? A man whose job requires public speaking should be able to parse a sentence correctly. While he stumble-bumbles around, the average beat cop speaks eloquently with one motion-he turns his back on a mayor who does not have the cop’s back.

For those who turned their backs on the Blovinator, well done. For the mayor, go home, shut up, and figure out how to earn your PD’s trust. Putting out the numbers for those two weeks does not show a drop in crime, it shows that your PD has no faith in you, and worst of all, has no respect for you. Now shut up and sit down!


18 posted on 01/06/2015 8:50:01 AM PST by blu
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