NYPD PBA has some common sense

From the New York Post:

NYPD union wants cops out of ‘social distancing enforcement’

The city’s largest police union is demanding cops get “out of the social distancing enforcement business,” while slamming New York pols for “releasing criminals,” “discouraging proactive policing,” and leaving subways “in chaos.”

“This situation is untenable: the NYPD needs to get cops out of the social distancing enforcement business altogether,” a statement from Police Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch said.

“The cowards who run this city have given us nothing but vague guidelines and mixed messages, leaving the cops on the street corners to fend for ourselves,” Lynch said. “Nobody has a right to interfere with a police action. But now that the inevitable backlash has arrived, they are once again throwing us under the bus.”

This is in reference to the story I brought to you on Monday, about the NYPD officer who punched a citizen while intervening on social distancing.  He was put on administrative duty bending review.   It should be noted that the officer in question has a history of excessive force and has been sued a number of times for it.

Lynch added that the politicians are “still watering down our laws, releasing real criminals and discouraging proactive enforcement of fare evasion and quality of life issues.”

“As a result, our subways are in chaos and we have hero nurses getting mugged on their way to our hospitals,” he said, referring to a nurse who had her phone torn out of her hand in Times Square on April 26. “As the weather heats up and the pandemic continues to unravel our social fabric, police officers should be allowed to focus on our core public safety mission. If we don’t, the city will fall apart before our eyes.”

There are only so many police to go around.  They can either break up groups of people talking outside or they can stop real crimes that do significant harm to society.  The Mayor’s office wants the former, not the latter.

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams also wants cops out of the social distancing business but for different reasons. He believes the process is racist.

“It has been two weeks since my office requested that the administration release demographic data on social distancing enforcement, and over a month since we cautioned against a response reliant on law enforcement rather than a more holistic community enforcement strategy,” he said. “Now, we see both why they have been resistant to our calls and why it is even more critical and urgent they address this selective enforcement against people and communities of more color.”

He said recent social distancing incidents — including a large Orthodox Jewish funeral service in Brooklyn — have made it clear that the same racial disparities that occurred in stop-and-frisk are happening with social distancing enforcement.

It’s good to see someone else, especially someone outside the Jewish community, call out the Mayor’s office for their selective enforcement of social distancing mandates on different communities.

This has been an utter disaster for the NYPD and city of New York.

Real, violent crimes are ignored by police, and property crime is through the roof.  The good people of New York are getting upset with the NYPD for their heavy-handed and officious enforcement of an executive order.

This is not making the city safer, it’s just making people feel like they live in a tyrannical dystopia.

It’s good to see the police union call out this terrible enforcement policy that undermines the social stability of the city.

 

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Crosswalk Karen

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why would anybody engage this woman. You are first in the right lane, turn and get out of the conflict.

And why would you go and do a stupid thing like opening the door?

Oy!

Hat Tip Brother Sal.

 

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We’ve been quarantined too long, let’s exercise.

Butt Clutching. A lot!

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West Virginia Governor: F***ing Follow the guidelines”

The glitch IMHO is that the man is tired and needs a small break. And I still like him better with a glitch.

Hat Tip Robert E.

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Proving that Stupidity is International: Oh Canada!

It is an Imperial Storm Trooper you dumb fucks. Even if the gun was real; they can’t hit shit!

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Once again why IDGAF about New York City

Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday night that he does not anticipate New York City fully reopening until September despite declining hospitalization rates and deaths.
The city is on lockdown along with the rest of the state until May 15 at least, after which point is must meet seven requirements set out by Gov. Andrew Cuomo before it can reopen.

New York City currently meets three of the four criteria; it is lacking in free hospital beds and does not yet have the number of contact tracers – people to track down everyone who has come into contact with new COVID-19 cases – that Cuomo is insisting on hiring before it can reopen.

Bill de Blasio says NYC won’t completely reopen until September despite declining deaths and hospitalization rates

What do you mean you don’t have free beds? We gave you a fucking medical ship with 1,000 beds and you guys sent it back!

President Donald Trump said the US Navy hospital ship Comfort would leave New York City as soon as possible after Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it was no longer needed in the city’s fight against the coronavirus.

The USNS Comfort was deployed to New York City on March 30 to help the city’s hospitals as they struggled with a tidal wave of coronavirus patients.

The 500-bed US Navy hospital ship Comfort is leaving NYC after treating just 179 patients in 3 weeks

And another 1,000 bed in a military field hospital in Javits Center is being closed because they are not sending patients their way.

Sao they piss away 2,000 beds and then bitch they don’t have enough. And if New Yorkers are fine with that, please do not come crying for the rest of the country to bail them out with our taxes so they can by Starbucks and Sushi to survive.

This scene from Escape from New York makes more and more sense every day.

 

I think somebody is intoxicated with power to the point Narcan may beed to be employed.

Hat Tip Manny L.

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Say a prayer for the family of Cpl Hamill

From the blog Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children:

THE PANDEMIC, THE GHOSTS OF WAR, AND A BROTHER LOST

The government stripped people of their ability to be with others. And it’s the camaraderie that helps veterans cope. They are a brotherhood, a sisterhood, a family. Remove the family, and the pieces begin to fall apart. We have seen this time and time again when veterans become isolated, they lose their sense of self-worth. Hopelessness takes over, and the future becomes too dim to grasp. For Rory, it was too much to bear.

Rory took his own life on May 1, 2020.

This is horrible.  Rory Hamill was a husband and father of three.

He left a written cry for help.

“I began writing this at 03:46 in the morning, on April 19th, 2020. I’ve been drunk on red wine since the previous night. I haven’t slept. I haven’t stopped suffering. My own personal hell has been reignited, in light of present circumstances affecting us all. This pandemic, although viral in nature; alludes to what happens to us as human beings, when we are stripped of our outlets, and are deprived of our ability to socialize.” Rory

I have written about this before on other posts.  For people who suffer from PTSD and depression, a regular routine is critical to maintain normalcy.

I went through a bout of depression in college, due to some life circumstances, and I know from first hand experience how important it was to get out of bed, go to class, and try and live a normal life.  If I sat alone in my room I would spiral into worsening anguish.

I can only imagine how someone suffering from PTSD finding themselves trapped at home without their routine and support network could crash and self harm like this.

It makes me wonder with churches and other places of congregation shut down how people who suffer from addiction and depression are coping of they can’t go to AA or other support group meetings.  These are not things easily done virtually.  People need the human connection of face to face interaction.

This post is not a dunk, it’s not an “I told you so.”

It’s an example of how in our panic to save lives we have harmed others and how it’s easy to forget about the needs of people like Rory Hammill.

Pray for his family and everyone else suffering in these times.

If you know someone suffering like this, reach out to them in any way you can and remind them that they are loved and needed.

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