From the NY Post:
Hundreds of paper-pushing cops -- career desk jockeys who've gone years without making a collar -- are being reassigned to weekly street patrols in crime-ridden precincts, The Post has learned.
The new policy, which goes into effect [today], is meant to reinforce stretched-thin street units in the roughest and busiest parts of the city -- including some housing projects rife with violence -- during the hot summer months, when crime traditionally spikes.
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Why were we paying for people, trained to be police, to act as clerks - something they all were unlikely to have been trained for and likely despised?
To save paying trained clerks? To punish cops who were somehow unsatisfactory?
Now, we will be sending inexperienced cops on patrol, to be replaced by clerks who will be on the payroll.
All because the turtle-faced, lying Commissar cut the ranks of the police - to save money.
The horrible end is obvious: The newly hired clerks will soon be doing the paperwork to report on the deaths and injuries to cops whose service time left them better clerks than cops.
The other victims will be civilians who are left unprotected by these inexperienced cops.
So, let's give the stupid Commissar a new assignment: Bermuda neighbor to the terrorist Uighars.
Let's give him a head start on September 15. Vote for Tony Avella.
Over the years, every time I went to Shea or Yankee Stadium, I noticed that a lot of "uniforms" that patrolled those venues were bloated, fat, overweight officers with their stomachs bursting through the buttons of their shirts, and butts wider than a Tully & DiNapoli dumptruck.
Why are so many NYC police officers so out of shape that they can only be placed in "soft" assignments, or behind a desk?
These people probably are too poorly conditioned or old or disabled or crazy to be out on patrol.
I doubt that the police puts strapping young men and woman without problems behind desk duty for long.
I hope that neither they nor the public are injured.
Let's pray that the flabby or injured ones re-condition, and that the unsuitable ones are quietly yanked and put back on desk duty as soon as the spotlight is off.
Yep...hand those green little drummer boys a .58 caliber Springfield musket and muster them into the Union Army's regulars!
Cemetery Ridge a comin' up!
They'll be cannon fodder in the projects!
The bottom line is NYC can't afford to be cutting the NYPD and it is happening again. The NYPD's starting salary should NEVER have been lowered!
I emailed this to the editor NY Daily News in response to their editoral:
To the person who wrote the editorial slamming NYPD and FDNY protesting at Gov Paterson's fund raiser, please take the Gov and do a citizen patrol shift in East Harlem where gun fire erupted from a semi auto matic injuring an 11 year old and a 77 year old. These officers put their lives on the line and Lynch sited recruiting concerns. The NYPD is it's smallest in number policing the largest population and even their biggest critics agreed their starting salary should never have been lowered. Your two cents makes the streets of this city more dangerous.
Irish and Italian pea-brains.
Don't say that about the Muslims or Jews of this city or you will be set on fire.
The only reason you crack wise at the Irish and the Italians is that they don't stand up for themselves like their grandparents did.
Once a Nativist Bigot asked the head of Old Saint Patrick's cathedral whether he was frightened by a threat to burn his church down. He replied, "I'm not worried about my Church, but yours. If my church is burned, New York will be another Moscow" (Moscow had recently been put to flame).
Perhaps we have become too civilized. There is something to be said for not taking people's sh#t.
"The other victims will be civilians who are left unprotected by these inexperienced cops."
Taxpayer - don't forget this give more ammo to Rev. Al & Co. - those inexperienced cops are more likley to shoot (at blacks) first and ask questions later - thus paving the road to more wrongful death lawsuits, which will cost the taxpeyrs more, which will give reason to increase our taxes, etc., etc.
A few weeks ago, they announced that they would be cutting hundreds of civilian NYPD workers who did clerical duties, and would be replacing them with uniformed police officers. Now they are telling us that they are going to take uniformed cops off the desks and onto the streets. Which is it?????
This is all smoke and mirrors to make it seem like they're doing something about the dwindling number of officers.
Painting school safety, auxillary and traffic enforcement cars regualar police car white, to fool the public into thinking there are more cops out there.
If they really wanted to make a difference they'd take the cops in the rat squad aka Internal Affairs and put them back out on the street. They waste your tax dollars by towing cops cars with parking plaques outside courthouses and other places where they are actually conducting business
The force is nearing pre 1991 numbers.. crime will be back.. just give it time.. a hot summer will be sure to bring the criminals back out
Instead of giving perfectly healthy cops who had previously been injured 75% disability pensions for life, let's have them work these desk jobs and do something for their taxpayer paid money.
Unions are killing this city.
These cops have hidden inside for years, you don't think they'll have a place to hide when outside the safety of the precinct?
The chief of patrol tried this about a year ago. He audited all precincts and ordered cops inside to be put on patrol posts. The creative powers-that-be then made up post for these desk jockeys, and listed them on roll calls as being assigned to these posts. They were on these posts for maybe an hour or two a day, if at all, until they were back in the safety of their air-conditioned office. But on paper, they were all on patrol, giving the illusion that there were more cops out there than there really were, and giving the community a false sense of safety.
Why were we paying for people, trained to be police, to act as clerks - something they all were unlikely to have been trained for and likely despised?
About time they got put back out onto the streets and be Police officers. That what they should be doing - not vacationing at desk jobs.
This is the old "operation all out".These cops are sent out on patrol 1 day a week ,not for your safety,but to bolster summons numbers.They write parking tickets because the city gets all the reveenue from them.Moving violations are discouraged because the stae gets a cut! that doesn't apply to seatbelt tickets...the feds pay to get those written.The city has it's agenda,and it is not your safety.
I have been wondering why those moving violations were ignored for years. Thanks for the tip.
About time they got put back out onto the streets and be Police officers. That what they should be doing - not vacationing at desk jobs.
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Sigh, once more for the hard of hearing.....THEY ARE NOT GOING OUT TO DO STEADY PATROL FOR AN ENTIRE TOUR, THEY ARE GOING OUT FOR MAYBE AN HOUR OR TWO A DAY, IF THAT MUCH, TO WRITE REVENUE GENERATING SUMMONSES. YOU ARE BEING DUPED INTO BELIEVING THAT THERE ARE MORE COPS ON PATROL THAN THERE REALLY ARE, AND PUTTING THESE 'DESK JOCKEYS' BACK ON THE STREET ISN'T GOING TO MAKE A DAMN BIT OF DIFFERENCE. THE DAY OF THE COP ON THE BEAT IS OVER IN THIS CITY. BLOOMBERG AND KELLY ARE PULLING ANOTHER FAST ONE ON YOU. WAKE THE HELL UP, YOU SHEEP!!!!
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