I swear if I were a NY police captain, I would tell my team to sit back, take it easy, do everything “by the book” and let criminals take over the streets.
De Blasio is an agitator like Obama - he runs against the system he controls, and uses people below him as pawns. NY cops shouldn’t let him get away with it.
That is the ultimate weapon that police officers have in their arsenal.
If street officers did everything 100% by all the BS ordinances and General Orders and processed every citizen complaint without passing over the small crap, every police dispatch system and every court and jail would grind to a halt.
“Oh, Sergeant, can’t go to that riot in front of City Hall. I have to process this 17oz Soda arrest.”
“Sorry Sarge, I can’t go help out at that multiple homicide. I’ve got a guy here who was smoking in a bar.”