Pat Lynch not de Blasio Owes the Apology

     Think about it: he's condoning and with his words encouraging a work stoppage among NYC police officers that happens to be illegal.

     "If you agree with Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch that the blood of Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu is on Mayor de Blasio’s hands, then is the blood of Zbigniew Truszkowski, 37, stabbed to death protecting his teenage stepdaughter from a drunken stalker on Dupont St. in Brooklyn on Monday night, on the hands of Lynch? By not condemning an apparent police work slowdown, Lynch has essentially sanctioned a mass breach of the NYPD oath to protect and serve the public."

     http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/hamill-patrick-lynch-owes-bill-de-blasio-apology-article-1.2065203

     It is Lynch not de Blasio who needs to offer an apology,

     http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-meyerson/it-is-you-pba-union-presi_b_6445404.html

    It's getting to the point now where if this continues, the Mayor needs to make changes at the top in the NYPD. At the end of the day no matter what Lynch likes to think the Mayor does not serve at the pleasure of the NYPD but the reverse. 

    "If the Police Department’s current commanders cannot get the cops to do their jobs, Mr. de Blasio should consider replacing them."

      http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-nypds-patrick-lynch-problem-and-why.html

      If there is any good news at all, it's that the rank and file officers in Lynch's union may be growing tired of his antics. At least some are now very disillusioned by him. 

      "An ugly scene erupted Tuesday at a Queens banquet hall where NYPD cops had convened to discuss ongoing tensions with City Hall."

      "The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association chief Patrick Lynch, who so vocally demanded that Mayor Bill de Blasio apologize to the NYPD after showing what they called police bias following the Eric Garner decision, bore the brunt of the ire."

      'I don't care about an apology,' one union rep yelled at Lynch as the meeting devolved into chaos. 'I want to know what you're going to do to protect us.'

      "It was toward the end of the tense 2-hour session when the yelling began, the New York Daily News reports."

      "My members want: they want more cars, better vests, more manpower,' shouted a cop, according to NYDN sources. 'They don't want an apology.'

       "As other cops jumped in to back up Lynch, it was cop against cop and shouting and shoving continued for at least the next ten minutes."

       "The officers also demanded that Lynch tell them what was discussed in a closed door meeting he had with de Blasio December 30."

       "Lynch refused to divulge details."

       'He didn't want to talk about it,' a source told NYDN. 'He said, "Everything we say gets back to the media." He was just refusing to answer. He said, "It is what it is."'

      "Before the meeting could erupt into fisticuffs, Lynch adjourned and slipped out."

      Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2909356/NYPD-union-meeting-thrown-chaos-cops-shout-boss-demanded-apology-Blasio.html#ixzz3OpB0I8LR
      For the record, it does appear that the nadir is past as arrests last week were up significantly after two down weeks-though still down 37% from last year. 

      At a news conference, Police Commissioner William Bratton said the 4,690 arrests made last week across the city were still down significantly - 37 percent compared with the same period last year. But it was an improvement compared with the 2,401 arrests in the week ending January 4, which had represented about a 60 percent drop."

      'With each passing day, with each passing week, those numbers are going back up to what we would describe as normal. ... The cops are beginning to do what's expected of them,' Bratton said.

Ticketing for traffic and parking violations and other low-level infractions, which had virtually ground to a halt, also were starting to edge upward, officials said. And despite the apparent slowdown, reports of homicides and other serious crimes also were down in the first two weeks of 2015, they added.

       Actually that last sentence might give gist to the mill for people who oppose open windows policing. Anyway, the good news is that the whole thing seems to be dying down a little bit and finally cooler heads are prevailing. 

       And Pat Lynch? His job apparently may now be in jeopardy for the first time since 2003. 

       http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/gonzalez-pba-pat-lynch-ousted-june-elections-article-1.2076930