Fire every one of them and tell them to go get a job as a bus boy if they don’t feel up to enforcing the law.
> Fire every one of them and tell them to go get a job as a bus boy if they don’t feel up to enforcing the law. <
I’m not the biggest fan of the police. But I very much doubt if the cop on the beat is at fault here. The insane rules are being made by the folks at City Hall.
I suppose the beat cop could - and should - ignore those rules to an extent. But maybe after you’ve arrested your third subway vagrant, your captain would call you in. Arrest one more, and you’re in trouble. Arrest two more, and you’re out of a job.
By the way, I faced something similar when I was an inner-city high school teacher. The word came down from central administration to severely cut back on student suspensions. And they really meant it! But suspensions were often the only way to keep an orderly classroom. So for the teachers it became a crazy, maddening balancing act.
The officers of the NYPD cannot remove the mentally ill homeless people from the subway system because:
1. They haven't yet committed a crime.
2. No institution will take them since the Wuhanic Plague took over New York City.
Expect more and more of these attacks as the weather gets colder and more mentally ill stay in the subways and bus terminal instead of the sidewalks and doorways.