Hey, the NYPD is a hard core lefty union shop. They got their dear leader but don’t like him so much.
The stop and frisk policy Bloomers had was totally unconstitutional and harassing targeted at young people in diverse areas. It had to go. That much contact with cocky cops is dangerous and enraging. It was Bloomers who should have been demonized for that policy, however, and not the cops.
In a community I lived in one time, the cops had no crime and so they started stepping up their aggression with young people. Coming home from lacrosse practice, my eldest son was stopped for no reason. The cop ordered my son to let him smell his hands for pot. My son laughed and said “You’re kidding me, right?” But the cop got more aggressive and so son warmed him he was coming home from lax and his hands were sweaty and muddy as he presented his hands for the cop to smell. No pot. Just athlete stink.
My son then did the Saturday Night live catholic school girl skit and stuck his hands in his arm pits and sniffed them deeply. That made the cop and my son laugh and defused the situation. My son was mad as hell and the cop was aggressively misbehaving, but my son was able to turn things around. He had those social skills and so did the police officer have the skills to back down and act human.
City kids and cops do not have light hearted social interactions with one another. They do not possess those skills. Glaring and glowering is the social stance. The thug culture has nothing but disadvantages.
I’m guessing you don’t live in NYC.
The PBA didn't endorse Wilhelm nor did they endorse Obama.