There should not be a NYC police strike for one reason. At this point in the city’s course of events, there should BE no police to strike. There should be moving vans with former police and their families headed to non liberal states to restart their lives.
Period.
The NYC situation isn't clearly a labor dispute, though I suspect the ongoing labor negotiations between the police unions and the city government are playing a role here. What's happening in NYC today is the result of the city's mayor going out of his way to undermine the police department -- not by underpaying them, but by criticizing them and questioning the legitimacy of the work they do.
And after the assassination of two police officers by a mutant who was motivated by one of the controversial situations that was behind the mayor's hostility to the NYPD, the NYPD personnel have every reason to steer clear of any unnecessary encounters with the public.
This is why the NYPD will always get more support from the public today than the Boston police department got back in 1919.
The BPD struck over wages and the like. Bloody Bill de Blasio is supporting and meeting with lying miscreants that call for the killing of cops at random.
The police are not on strike. This article is idiotic.
Wilhelm is in a unique position not normally faced by politicians in his position...he is married to a minority member.
Quite the reverse is happening with deBlasio and the police. To the people who pay the taxes and still make up a majority the police are the heroes and any "tough" action the elected Marxist POS may try will blow up in his face. Totally different situations based on totally different character of the men involved.
Shame on Amity. Wrote a good book about the depression. But when she says “What the 1919 Boston strike story reminds us is that policemen can’t be policymakers.”
Nobody is saying the police get to be policymakers. But in return, the policymakers do not get to literally side with, give comfort to, and support the enemy who revel in its lawlessness.
She is dead wrong. And if she thinks what New York needs is the national guard in the streets to teach the cops a lesson, she’s batty.
“There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.”
Does this include the Mayor and his actions that were a strike against public safety by encouraging this murderer that his cause was righteous?
“If voters doubt that Mayor de Blasio will ever change his policy, they should concentrate on electing a new mayor, as happened when voters chose a law-and-order candidate, Giuliani,”
Hey Amity, how does that happen when the cops cheerfully go about business as usual, like nothing is wrong? The slowdown is what has made the average New Yorker get it that something is seriously wrong.
Besides, im not sure how much is deliberate, and how much is a natural result on cops being very cautious and methodical to avoid ambushes. It isn’t business as usual, and so the parking ticket numbers and peeing in public numbers will reflect that. Is the “drunk” pissing on a wall a set up to another ambush?
Id love to see Amity and her big talk go patrol the streets just one afternoon on Queens and see how much big talk we get. National Review spewing crap. Sad to see Buckleys mag go that route.
Voters can't fire him for another three years, and he won't resign!
Bad policing is like bad doctoring, bad lawyering ... and bad governing -- New Yorkers won't experience the result until it's too late.
There is no strike.
I'm so old, I remember when National Review had standards for their authors.
De Blasio is not right. The police are sworn to protect and uphold the law, not Wilhelm personally. He is rejecting the law, and has constantly been on the side of the lawbreakers.
Coolidge was not.