Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2014 6:50:26 GMT -6
I bring an interesting question this morning. Is New York City on the verge of open political war? Not the political rivalry that can get nasty, but political war? What might that look like, if so?
This is one to read, as what is developing there seems somewhat unprecedented for a divide between the authority who governs a city and the enforcement arm who makes sure that remains possible with some order.
Now you would think a funeral would be a place where politics would be left, and perhaps this is where we can see its about more than politics. Whatever the cold shoulder he recieved at St Patrick's might have been, one could chalk it up to emotion perhaps. Two Officers were just executed for no other crime than choosing police work as a career and being in the line of sight for the killer that day. it's a very emotional time. However....in this case? It started well before this, and the crisis of confidence in the Mayor is far more serious. Yes....it even has direct relation to the services themselves, and his presence at them.
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One of my earlier childhood memories was protesting with my Dad. A little case of the 'Blue Flu' had swept over the city he worked in, and cops protesting their own Civic Center must have been a sight to see. It made for strong memories. Nothing like the above happened though. The Police Chief back then threatened to turn them all into hot dog vendors in local high crime parks for community policing if they kept striking ..but no one felt SO strongly and hated SO deeply as to invoke attendance to funerals of the fallen.
To have heard that come from cops, got my attention like a rifle shot. That is the flare of alarm the public ought to see as the crisis I think it indicates.
Does anyone here live in NYC to have a closer perspective? I'm really curious, amid calls for the Mayors resignation by some now, how serious the split might really be?
I mean when I first heard about the cop killings, my mind went back to a movie. A long time ago...called Fort Apache The Bronx. What happened, New York? It was getting to be a safe city again, compared to its past. Now it's back to that?
(Hops off in confused sadness)
This is one to read, as what is developing there seems somewhat unprecedented for a divide between the authority who governs a city and the enforcement arm who makes sure that remains possible with some order.
The crowd had come, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said, to mourn the two officers killed in an ambush in Brooklyn on Saturday. It had come to pray for their families and their “brothers and sisters in uniform.”
He went on.
“We pray for our leaders as well,” the cardinal said, looking toward the mayor’s row. “You’ve done what so many New Yorkers do in times of trial. You’ve come to St. Patrick’s.”
He went on.
“We pray for our leaders as well,” the cardinal said, looking toward the mayor’s row. “You’ve done what so many New Yorkers do in times of trial. You’ve come to St. Patrick’s.”
Now you would think a funeral would be a place where politics would be left, and perhaps this is where we can see its about more than politics. Whatever the cold shoulder he recieved at St Patrick's might have been, one could chalk it up to emotion perhaps. Two Officers were just executed for no other crime than choosing police work as a career and being in the line of sight for the killer that day. it's a very emotional time. However....in this case? It started well before this, and the crisis of confidence in the Mayor is far more serious. Yes....it even has direct relation to the services themselves, and his presence at them.
The president of the city’s largest police union, Patrick Lynch, blamed Mr. de Blasio for the tragedy. The officers’ blood “starts on the steps of City Hall,” he said, “in the office of the mayor.”
The reaction encapsulated weeks of escalating tensions. Even before the shooting, union leaders had circulated a letter allowing officers to request that the mayor not attend their funerals in the event of their death in the line of duty.
The reaction encapsulated weeks of escalating tensions. Even before the shooting, union leaders had circulated a letter allowing officers to request that the mayor not attend their funerals in the event of their death in the line of duty.
One of my earlier childhood memories was protesting with my Dad. A little case of the 'Blue Flu' had swept over the city he worked in, and cops protesting their own Civic Center must have been a sight to see. It made for strong memories. Nothing like the above happened though. The Police Chief back then threatened to turn them all into hot dog vendors in local high crime parks for community policing if they kept striking ..but no one felt SO strongly and hated SO deeply as to invoke attendance to funerals of the fallen.
To have heard that come from cops, got my attention like a rifle shot. That is the flare of alarm the public ought to see as the crisis I think it indicates.
Does anyone here live in NYC to have a closer perspective? I'm really curious, amid calls for the Mayors resignation by some now, how serious the split might really be?
I mean when I first heard about the cop killings, my mind went back to a movie. A long time ago...called Fort Apache The Bronx. What happened, New York? It was getting to be a safe city again, compared to its past. Now it's back to that?
(Hops off in confused sadness)
