Posted on 12/30/2014 7:53:30 AM PST by dennisw
Mayor Bill de Blasio has spent weeks expressing his respect and admiration for the New York Police Department, while calling for unity in these difficult days, but the message doesn’t seem to be sinking in.
When he spoke at a police graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden on Monday, some in the crowd booed and heckled him. This followed the mass back-turning by scores of officers when the mayor spoke on Saturday at the funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos; the virtual back-turning the day before by an airplane-towed banner (“Our backs have turned to you”), and the original spiteful gesture by officers on the night Mr. de Blasio visited the hospital where Officer Ramos and his partner, Wenjian Liu, lay dead.
Mr. de Blasio isn’t going to say it, but somebody has to: With these acts of passive-aggressive contempt and self-pity, many New York police officers, led by their union, are squandering the department’s credibility, defacing its reputation, shredding its hard-earned respect. They have taken the most grave and solemn of civic moments — a funeral of a fallen colleague — and hijacked it for their own petty look-at-us gesture. In doing so, they also turned their backs on Mr. Ramos’s widow and her two young sons, and others in that grief-struck family.
These are disgraceful acts, which will be compounded if anyone repeats the stunt at Officer Liu’s funeral on Sunday.
But none of those grievances can justify the snarling sense of victimhood that seems to be motivating the anti-de Blasio campaign — the belief that the department is never wrong, that it never needs redirection or reform, only reverence. This is the view peddled by union officials like Patrick Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association
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Waah!
BARF ALERT bloviation in the way that only limousine liberals do it. When is one of these gutless wonders going to summon up the courage to go on a ride along in a NYPD patrol car? How about at night? Over in the black areas and barrios.
Its the war of the upper and lower (lumpen) against the middle. The middle class that pays the taxes
The horse is outside the barn... de-Commio is getting his just deserts. Any regret now is akin to getting caught after the crime is committed.
what a load of crap the ny times has become. OK. Maybe it always was.
Boy, is that ever a fag paper.
The New York Times.....paid Democrat liars.
Maybe "the message" would sink in if DeBlasio's "respect and admiration" were real and sincere.
Despite what the editors of the New York Times believe, most people KNOW when someone is blowing smoke
I’m not surprised that the New York Times hasn’t the faintest glimmer of understanding of police unity and loyalty.
The complicit media protests too much!
If crazed people were taking-out leftwing journalists and media editors...perhaps they would be singing a different tune from their perch on high.
It’s a homo-infested commie rag.Has been that way for 50 years,at least.
In other words, NYPD, shut up and take your beating. Your betters are speaking.
Beyond disgusting.
acts of passive-aggressive contempt and self-pity
Just WOW. Can’t wait til this rag folds.
where’s the article on the Sharpton incited police protests? have they not squandered any respect?
Hmmm, something is amiss.
I respect the cops even more now than ever.
As for De Dorkio, the sooner that SOB assumes room temp, the better.
Sorry, but “dats the twuth”.
Why should he? He doesn't need cop votes. He has the support of the Sharpton Gibsmedats and the Liberals, and that's enough to carry NYC. Of course, if he has those two blocs covered, he also has the NYT, come hell or high water.
The cops contain the last vestiges of white, Catholic working class New York, which most of whom no longer live in the city. The NYT doesn't care for or about them, and neither does DeBlasio.
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