The NYTimes editorial board nails it.
"the only one responsible for the killings is the killer, Ismaaiyl Brinsley. Mr. Bratton’s 35,000 officers, in whom Mr. Lynch has been trying mightily to stoke a sense of grievance and victimhood, need to hear from him that this administration fully supports the police, and that gestures of contempt — like turning their backs on the mayor — are out of place."
"The protests for police reform should not be stifled — they should be allowed to continue, and be listened to. The protesters and their defenders, including Mayor de Blasio, need offer no apologies for denouncing misguided and brutal police tactics and deploring the evident injustice of the deaths of unarmed black men like Eric Garner. As Mr. de Blasio noted on Monday, a vast majority of demonstrators are “people who are trying to work for a more just society,” a mission that has nothing to do with hating or killing cops. Those who urge violence are on the fringe, Mr. de Blasio said, rightly denouncing them and urging New Yorkers to report them."
"The New Yorkers who gathered at a candlelight vigil for the two slain officers and sang the gentle gospel song “This Little Light of Mine” do not hate the police. The officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, who were patrolling in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, did not hate civilians. Mr. de Blasio, indeed, reminded us that when 25,000 New Yorkers marched in memory of Mr. Garner, hundreds of officers protected them and defended their right to speak."
"We want to hear more of this from Mr. de Blasio, who needs to be the grown-up in a conversation so dominated by puerility. Irresponsible voices are poisoning this debate: George Pataki, a former New York governor, said that “divisive anti-cop rhetoric” from Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. and Mr. de Blasio inspired the killing of the two officers; Rudolph Giuliani, a former mayor of New York City, spread the falsehood that Mr. de Blasio had let the protests get out of control (they have been amazingly peaceful); Raymond Kelly, a former New York police commissioner, falsely accused Mr. de Blasio of running on an “anti-police” platform."
"Mr. de Blasio is right when he insists that harmony is possible. Hating police brutality and respecting the police are not contradictory impulses. “Leaders have to rise above the fray and the anger and the back-and-forth, and take us somewhere,” he said on Monday. That somewhere has to be better than where we’ve been."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/opinion/mr-de-blasios-call-for-harmony.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region
Bratton did a good job as well when he joined the Mayor during his afternoon press conference.
Mr. Bratton stepped in repeatedly to buttress his boss. “Do some officers not like this mayor?” he said. “Guaranteed.”
"He added, to laughter, that “amazingly, some don’t” like their commissioner, either.
Mr. Bratton said union leaders — who led an extraordinary protest against the mayor on Saturday, turning their backs to him as he and Mr. Bratton walked past at the hospital — had agreed to a “standing down” of heated public comments until after the funerals. (The first funeral, for Officer Rafael Ramos, will be on Saturday, Mr. Bratton said.)"
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/nyregion/mayor-bill-de-blasio-nypd-officers-shooting.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=homepage&module=Ribbon&version=origin®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Home%20Page&pgtype=article
Obviously the police are not monolithic either-their views vary as much as other New Yorkers. Neither are they any more made up mostly white males.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/blue-lives-matter-nypd-shooting/383977/
As for the call for protesters against police brutality, I think they're reasonable for a short period of time to allow the families of the slain officers to be buried. What I appreicated is that the police unions have also agreed to stand down.
I think that Bratton has done a great job throughout this-he's a guy that the rank and file officers have to respect as he is a cop as well who believes in broken windows but also understands well that de Blasio is a good guy who certainly does not hate the police but just wants to cut down police brutality and distrust between the police and minority neighborhoods.
I have found the divisive rhetoric of people like the police union leader David Lynch, Pataki , and Rudy Guilani, very disappointing. I find that when I heard about the death of these two fine young cops I was outraged as well but then I felt a little alienated when Right wingers with a political agenda started trying to use this to attack the Mayor and criminalize lawful and legitimate protests.
I was very disappointed this morning to see Mike Lupica joining in with this anti civil iberties chorus that claims that criticiizng the Eric Garner verdict makes you a cope hater and somehow compliccit with a deeply disturbed man from Baltimore who started the day by trying to kill his girlfriend.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bill-de-blasio-fix-broken-relationship-nypd-article-1.2054083
I have no idea what Lupica is talking about here. He seems to think that the Mayor has to celebrate the Garner Grand Jury decision or he's a bad Mayor who hates cops. I don't get how such a seemingly intelligent guy can make such an absurd claim.
He goes on and on about how yesterday the Mayor 'said the right tings yesterday' but that now he has to 'back that up.' What does Lupica have in mind? Basically he seems to think that Mayor has to abidcate his own citizens-he must pretend police brutality and racial profiling is liberal myth and that to ever crticize yet anohter Grand Jury decision to let cops who murder young black men scott free is somehow an incitement to violence.
What about the police unions-do they have to do nothing to repair relations with the public? For Lynch and his friends to deign to turn their backs on the Mayor of NYC-the people's Mayor-is an outrage. They are basically saying that they don't recognize the Office of the Mayor. This is not a military dictatorship or a police state. If Lynch thinks he's above the Mayor he also means he's above the law which is the whole problem.
I'm sorry. What happened to these young officers is a terrible tragedy and a crime. However, unfortunately some on the Right are using this to push a political agenda. One paragraph by Lupica bares repeating which just shows what a wrongheaded attitude he has:
"The police officers of this city weren’t always happy with Rudy Giuliani when Giuliani was mayor, starting with how he thought they should be paid. But they knew where they stood with Giuliani the way they knew where they stood with Mike Bloomberg. But then neither one of them ever gave you the idea, when they were running for office, that they were running against cops the way de Blasio did."
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/lupica-blaz-improve-relationship-nypd-article-1.2052929
What Lupica seems to think is that cops are above the law. You can't criticize any of their practices without hating them and urging violence against them. Apparently police officers don't care if you pay them as long as you 'hold their coats' after they engage in excessive force.
"The mayor has to understand that if he does not step up and step forward now and admit mistakes he has made with the NYPD because of his obsession with playing to his base, then the image of those cops turning their backs on him will be a part of his permanent record."
I resent this. Why does Lupica think that 'the base' deserves such scorn? Why do Democratic voters somehow merit less importance than what Repulibcans like Lynch, Pataki, and apparently Lupica appear to think?
He also seems to be under the mistaken premise that de Blasio has somehow created the protests about police violence against young black men. In fact it's a national phenomenon with many similar cases across the country.
"the only one responsible for the killings is the killer, Ismaaiyl Brinsley. Mr. Bratton’s 35,000 officers, in whom Mr. Lynch has been trying mightily to stoke a sense of grievance and victimhood, need to hear from him that this administration fully supports the police, and that gestures of contempt — like turning their backs on the mayor — are out of place."
"The protests for police reform should not be stifled — they should be allowed to continue, and be listened to. The protesters and their defenders, including Mayor de Blasio, need offer no apologies for denouncing misguided and brutal police tactics and deploring the evident injustice of the deaths of unarmed black men like Eric Garner. As Mr. de Blasio noted on Monday, a vast majority of demonstrators are “people who are trying to work for a more just society,” a mission that has nothing to do with hating or killing cops. Those who urge violence are on the fringe, Mr. de Blasio said, rightly denouncing them and urging New Yorkers to report them."
"The New Yorkers who gathered at a candlelight vigil for the two slain officers and sang the gentle gospel song “This Little Light of Mine” do not hate the police. The officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, who were patrolling in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, did not hate civilians. Mr. de Blasio, indeed, reminded us that when 25,000 New Yorkers marched in memory of Mr. Garner, hundreds of officers protected them and defended their right to speak."
"We want to hear more of this from Mr. de Blasio, who needs to be the grown-up in a conversation so dominated by puerility. Irresponsible voices are poisoning this debate: George Pataki, a former New York governor, said that “divisive anti-cop rhetoric” from Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. and Mr. de Blasio inspired the killing of the two officers; Rudolph Giuliani, a former mayor of New York City, spread the falsehood that Mr. de Blasio had let the protests get out of control (they have been amazingly peaceful); Raymond Kelly, a former New York police commissioner, falsely accused Mr. de Blasio of running on an “anti-police” platform."
"Mr. de Blasio is right when he insists that harmony is possible. Hating police brutality and respecting the police are not contradictory impulses. “Leaders have to rise above the fray and the anger and the back-and-forth, and take us somewhere,” he said on Monday. That somewhere has to be better than where we’ve been."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/opinion/mr-de-blasios-call-for-harmony.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region
Bratton did a good job as well when he joined the Mayor during his afternoon press conference.
Mr. Bratton stepped in repeatedly to buttress his boss. “Do some officers not like this mayor?” he said. “Guaranteed.”
"He added, to laughter, that “amazingly, some don’t” like their commissioner, either.
Mr. Bratton said union leaders — who led an extraordinary protest against the mayor on Saturday, turning their backs to him as he and Mr. Bratton walked past at the hospital — had agreed to a “standing down” of heated public comments until after the funerals. (The first funeral, for Officer Rafael Ramos, will be on Saturday, Mr. Bratton said.)"
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/23/nyregion/mayor-bill-de-blasio-nypd-officers-shooting.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=homepage&module=Ribbon&version=origin®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Home%20Page&pgtype=article
Obviously the police are not monolithic either-their views vary as much as other New Yorkers. Neither are they any more made up mostly white males.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/blue-lives-matter-nypd-shooting/383977/
As for the call for protesters against police brutality, I think they're reasonable for a short period of time to allow the families of the slain officers to be buried. What I appreicated is that the police unions have also agreed to stand down.
I think that Bratton has done a great job throughout this-he's a guy that the rank and file officers have to respect as he is a cop as well who believes in broken windows but also understands well that de Blasio is a good guy who certainly does not hate the police but just wants to cut down police brutality and distrust between the police and minority neighborhoods.
I have found the divisive rhetoric of people like the police union leader David Lynch, Pataki , and Rudy Guilani, very disappointing. I find that when I heard about the death of these two fine young cops I was outraged as well but then I felt a little alienated when Right wingers with a political agenda started trying to use this to attack the Mayor and criminalize lawful and legitimate protests.
I was very disappointed this morning to see Mike Lupica joining in with this anti civil iberties chorus that claims that criticiizng the Eric Garner verdict makes you a cope hater and somehow compliccit with a deeply disturbed man from Baltimore who started the day by trying to kill his girlfriend.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bill-de-blasio-fix-broken-relationship-nypd-article-1.2054083
I have no idea what Lupica is talking about here. He seems to think that the Mayor has to celebrate the Garner Grand Jury decision or he's a bad Mayor who hates cops. I don't get how such a seemingly intelligent guy can make such an absurd claim.
He goes on and on about how yesterday the Mayor 'said the right tings yesterday' but that now he has to 'back that up.' What does Lupica have in mind? Basically he seems to think that Mayor has to abidcate his own citizens-he must pretend police brutality and racial profiling is liberal myth and that to ever crticize yet anohter Grand Jury decision to let cops who murder young black men scott free is somehow an incitement to violence.
What about the police unions-do they have to do nothing to repair relations with the public? For Lynch and his friends to deign to turn their backs on the Mayor of NYC-the people's Mayor-is an outrage. They are basically saying that they don't recognize the Office of the Mayor. This is not a military dictatorship or a police state. If Lynch thinks he's above the Mayor he also means he's above the law which is the whole problem.
I'm sorry. What happened to these young officers is a terrible tragedy and a crime. However, unfortunately some on the Right are using this to push a political agenda. One paragraph by Lupica bares repeating which just shows what a wrongheaded attitude he has:
"The police officers of this city weren’t always happy with Rudy Giuliani when Giuliani was mayor, starting with how he thought they should be paid. But they knew where they stood with Giuliani the way they knew where they stood with Mike Bloomberg. But then neither one of them ever gave you the idea, when they were running for office, that they were running against cops the way de Blasio did."
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/lupica-blaz-improve-relationship-nypd-article-1.2052929
What Lupica seems to think is that cops are above the law. You can't criticize any of their practices without hating them and urging violence against them. Apparently police officers don't care if you pay them as long as you 'hold their coats' after they engage in excessive force.
"The mayor has to understand that if he does not step up and step forward now and admit mistakes he has made with the NYPD because of his obsession with playing to his base, then the image of those cops turning their backs on him will be a part of his permanent record."
I resent this. Why does Lupica think that 'the base' deserves such scorn? Why do Democratic voters somehow merit less importance than what Repulibcans like Lynch, Pataki, and apparently Lupica appear to think?
He also seems to be under the mistaken premise that de Blasio has somehow created the protests about police violence against young black men. In fact it's a national phenomenon with many similar cases across the country.
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