NYPD SHOULD HAVE DUCKED

NYPD Boycotts de Blasio: New York City Arrests And Citations Plummet As Cops Stage “Virtual Work Stoppage”

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/30/2014 21:30 -0500

First, NYC’s cops turned their back on Bill de Blasio, best known for first rushing to side with New York’s “oppressed” minorities “threatened” by the local police, and then, when two weeks later 2 NYPD cops were executed in cold blood and in broad daylight in what some hinted was an unintended consequence of the mayor’s bashing of the police, scrambling to undo his previous populism and to show his affection for New York’s cops.

Now, those tasked to protect and to serve the Big Apple, appear to have decided to turn their back on their job entirely, and in what is shaping up to be a long vendetta with the mayor, have succumbed to what the NY Post calls “a virtual work stoppage.”

This implicit strike by the NYPD is manifesting as follows: “traffic tickets and summonses for minor offenses have dropped off by a staggering 94 percent following the execution of two cops — as officers feel betrayed by the mayor and fear for their safety.”

To some this is great news: the local police will no longer be breathing over everyone’s back, and one can park in the red zone without fears of a summons. To others this bears an unpleasant resemblance to New York in the 1970s and early 80s when the police dared not show their face in various parts of the city due to rampant crime.

Fearful that it may be the latter, the mayor has decided to let all populist rhetoric drop and instead focus on mending fences:

The dramatic drop comes as Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and Mayor Bill de Blasio plan to hold an emergency summit on Tuesday with the heads of the five police unions to try to close the widening rift between cops and the administration.

The unprecedented meeting is being held at the new Police Academy in Queens at 2 p.m., sources said.

Meanwhile, unless something changes, New York may indeed become the perfect incubator for a new crime wave:

Angry union leaders have ordered drastic measures for their members since the Dec. 20 assassination of two NYPD cops in a patrol car, including that two units respond to every call.

It has helped contribute to a nose dive in low-level policing, with overall arrests down 66 percent for the week starting Dec. 22 compared with the same period in 2013, stats show.

Citations for traffic violations fell by 94 percent, from 10,069 to 587, during that time frame.

Summonses for low-level offenses like public drinking and urination also plunged 94 percent — from 4,831 to 300. Even parking violations are way down, dropping by 92 percent, from 14,699 to 1,241.

Drug arrests by cops assigned to the NYPD’s Organized Crime Control Bureau — which are part of the overall number — dropped by 84 percent, from 382 to 63.

Of course, one may ask if those numbers were abnormally high to begin with: a trigger-happy police going about arresting everyone in their path would surely lead to a high baseline to begin with. But as the Fed has learned the hard way, it is all about the flow, not the stock. And any changes and deviations in the NYPD’s pattern will surely be promptly taken advantage of by New York’s criminal underworld.

Naturally, New York’s cops will be the last to admit they are engaging in what amounts to a city-wide boycott of the mayor’s office: “Police sources said Monday that safety concerns were the main reason for the dropoff in police activity, but added that some cops were mounting an undeclared slowdown in protest of de Blasio’s response to the non-indictment in the police chokehold death of Eric Garner.”

“The call last week from the PBA is what started it, but this has been simmering for a long time,” one source said.

“This is not a slowdown for slowdown’s sake. Cops are concerned, after the reaction from City Hall on the Garner case, about de Blasio not backing them.”

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association has warned its members to put their safety first and not make arrests “unless absolutely necessary.”

How does this play out? It is unclear, although de Blasio will almost certainly be made to walk with his populist tail between his legs before there is any resolution. More importantly, he – like many others to follow – will finally learn that every action, and statement, does have consequences, even in a world in which the Chairman, or Chairwoman, does get to work and mask every problem with even more printing. Even in a world in which the police state has gotten just “a tad powerful” in recent years.

As for whether a crime wave will in fact hit New York City, we have no idea. We do know, however, that if anyone needed yet another reason to avoid being in the middle of Times Square zoo on New Year’s Eve, this is it.

Chilling Threats To Kill Cops On New Year’s Eve

Paul Joseph Watson

As instances of violence against police officers across the country escalate, chilling warnings about plans to kill cops on New Year’s Eve continue to emerge.

A message scrawled on a bathroom wall at a Kum-and-Go gas station in Arkansas states, “A cop will be killed New Year’s night in Rogers, AR.”

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The message is signed “MS13,” which is the name of a criminal gang that has members in numerous major cities across the United States.

Rogers police Officer Keith Foster said the department was not aware of any specific threat but would be on alert after the warning.

In a separate incident, a Ferguson protester also tweeted “F*ck 12 and u. PICK A sidE or die with em. #Ferguson #VonderritMyers Shawtown 211MOB New Years Eve Massacre Kill A Pig Night 12/31/2014.”

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As we previously reported, Michael Brown supporters voiced their desire to see Officer Darren Wilson and other white police officers murdered in the aftermath of last month’s Grand Jury verdict.

The threats follow a spate of incidents across the country where police have been targeted in violent attacks.

Last night, a 52-year-old man who made terroristic threats against cops on social media was shot dead after he attempted to run over police officers in Delaware County.

Over the course of the last week, there have also been three assassination attempts against officers in Tampa, FL, Los Angeles, CA and Durham, NC.

Threatening or carrying out acts of violence against police officers in the name of protesting against police brutality is completely ludicrous and self-defeating.

Such behavior in the aftermath of the Michael Brown shooting and the Eric Garner choking has only served tobolster advocacy for cops, with the Associated Press reporting on a “surge of support for police” in the aftermath of the murder of two NYPD officers.

Despite liberals seizing on a Baltimore Fox affiliate being caught deceptively editing audio to frame Black Lives Matter protesters chanting “kill a cop,” this has been a theme of some post-Ferguson protests, as documented in the video below which features demonstrators in New York chanting, “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now.”