No way for the innocent to defend themselves in Bloomberg's New York. The word to keep hands off criminals in crimes like this had to come from the imbecilic at the top!
New York cops are being prevented from doing their job by the politically correct NY state government. I'll bet a lot of them are grimly counting the days until they can retire. Moving to a PD in another state is an undesirable option since they'd lose all of their seniority. Most cops elect to grit their teeth and hang on (according to my brother-in-law, a deputy sheriff).
Why doesn't Bloomberg outlaw crime "in all public places?" It worked with smoking!
Um...yeah, "white boy" is... uh... a new hip-hop term for... cocaine... I mean money... yeah that's it.
Or they really said "get some money for white milk, not that chocolate stuff Ray Nagin was talking about."