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-Lurid Crime Tales-
NY Times to NYPD, Day 2: ‘Do Your Jobs’
2015-01-01

[MEDIAITE] The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
 issued its second editorial against the NYPD in two days, this time excoriating the department for its alleged work slowdown.

The New York Post reported yesterday that police activity had plummeted since the union called for a work "slowdown" in response to Gotham Mayor Bill de Blasio's remarks following the Eric Garner decision and the ambush-style murder of two NYPD officers. (The protracted contract dispute has a good deal to do with it as well.)

The department's "list of grievances adds up to very little, unless you look at it through the magnifying lens of resentment fomented by union bosses and right-wing commentators," the ed board wrote Wednesday. (On Tuesday they chided the department for its "snarling sense of victimhood".)

The Times reminded the NYPD Wednesday morning that de Blasio was elected by a landslide to enact the sort of reforms, such as ending Stop and Frisk and quota-based policing, that he had since implemented, and that he had pumped millions of dollars into the department while overseeing a 4.4% drop in crime.

"Do your jobs," the paper advised. "The police are sworn public servants, and refusing to work violates their oath to serve and protect. Mr. Bratton should hold his commanders and supervisors responsible, and turn this insubordination around."
Posted by:Fred

#15  do their jobs only when it is certain "folks"
Posted by: Chunky Platypus1678   2015-01-01 20:56  

#14  As I recall, the NYT was strangely supportive of trash collector and teacher slowdowns. Maybe they've "evolved?"
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp7489   2015-01-01 20:47  

#13  And the Border Patrol?

Do as we say, not as we do. If they didn't have double standards, they'd have none at all.
Posted by: P2Kontheroad   2015-01-01 19:41  

#12  #9 How different this world might be if the New York Times did its job.

It is doing its assigned work - assigned by Democrat Pols, Liberals and Socialists as well as racial agitators. Making a profit? Pshaw!
Posted by: Frank G   2015-01-01 17:08  

#11  The NYPD has stopped its revenue generation activities. It is still doing police work. And NYers love it.

I suspect NYT's real concern is that people will start to clue in about how much "police work" is just gathering cash at gun point.
Posted by: Iblis   2015-01-01 16:52  

#10  The NYTs ceded any journalistic responsibility and doing its job long ago. Irony defined.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-01-01 15:52  

#9  How different this world might be if the New York Times did its job.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2015-01-01 14:20  

#8  It amounts to a public act of extortion by the police.

That’s strong language for a board that always attacks those opposed to unions as anti-worker. Then again, there was that time when the Newspaper Guild encouraged NYT staffers to strike over contract negotiations. So you never know.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2015-01-01 11:49  

#7  I was thinking of the same things, tu3031. You want law enforcement, Mr. Sulzburger, we got your law enforcement right here...
Posted by: Steve White   2015-01-01 11:17  

#6  Sure. Times delivery truck double parked and obstructing traffic? Tag and tow. No blinker on that turn? Tagged. Pinchy's limo double parked in front of headquarters? Tag and tow. Permits all up to date? Those inspection stickers on the trucks expired? Smoking within 100 feet of the entrance to headquarters? Here's your summons.
Just doin our jobs...
Posted by: tu3031   2015-01-01 10:33  

#5  What's interesting is, according to the numbers, the NYPD is still on the job on actual crime.
What they've cut back on are traffic enforcement, tickets, parking violations, and low end stuff like arresting people for selling cigarettes (wonder why?)
As in, fee generators for the city.
Posted by: ed in texas   2015-01-01 10:13  

#4  Call me when NYT goes into receivership, no more uro.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-01-01 07:58  

#3  This could be progress.

When the NYT starts sounding like the great Calvin Coolidge and cannot comprehend the irony, something must be right in the world.
Posted by: no mo uro   2015-01-01 06:52  

#2  After making sure that doing their jobs is no longer possible?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-01-01 05:37  

#1  Just what do you want them to do?

Whatever Our LEO's do, you make it sound evil.

You had better back off unless you want to live in a third world shithole like the rest of the "jornos" behind bars for not towing the party line.

You, through history, have proven yourselves to be a disgraceful organization.

Morally bereft, seeking public admiration, begging the question, selective or non reporting, and screwing around with the corrupt static line politics.
You may have been un-willing accomplices to many, many souls taken from this place. WWII is your record.

You call this war on the cops off to, you tyrant fluffers.
Posted by: newc   2015-01-01 02:06  

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