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2015-05-15 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Why New Yorkers love the NYPD more than the mayor

[NYPOST] New Yorkers got yet another reminder Wednesday of how police officers keep them safe — at repeated risks to their own lives: Two cops apprehended the hammer-wielding maniac who’d randomly attacked four people in Midtown over 48 hours.
But they voted their mayor into office. Now he's trying to take his prescription for anarchy national.

Most of them didn't bother to vote, I understand. So they didn't vote against what turned out to be a really, really bad idea.

Spotting a man who fit the suspect’s description, Officers Lauren O’Rourke and Geraldo Casaigne started following him.

Suddenly, he turned around and struck O’Rourke twice, once in the back of her neck, with the infamous hammer. Casaigne fired four shots, bringing down the suspect — possibly saving his partner’s life.

This in a week when the NYPD is scrambling to address a crime spike in Central Park and an even more troubling rise in shootings across the city — and Mayor Bill de Blasio is off on a nationwide tour to bask in the admiration of his fellow progressives.

Which is why New Yorkers support the cops a lot more than they do the mayor. In this week’s Quinnipiac poll, his approval sank to 44 percent; the NYPD’s stands at 56 percent.

And backing for the police grows when people look at what’s actually happening on the streets. Do you approve of how cops in your neighborhood are doing their job? By 69 percent to 26 percent, the public says yes.

The approval stretches across racial, political and age lines.

Posted by Fred 2015-05-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 It seems he lived in the next building to mine. Ive been walking past him for years.

Posted by Grunter 2015-05-15 03:18|| 2015-05-15 03:18|| Front Page Top

#2 These Progressive politicians (de Blasio, Obama, and erstwhile Holder, etc.) in office have fanned the flames racism and against police officers and they have seen a crime spike in NYC and the country. Is anyone really surprised?

Posted by JohnQC 2015-05-15 09:37|| 2015-05-15 09:37|| Front Page Top

#3 So AG Lynch is going to investigate the Baltimore Police that are under the direct control of Democrat black City Council, Mayor, and Police Chief.

So how is that going to work out? If you condemn the police force, then you are saying that the city cannot control their police. Lynch better let this one die on the vine.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2015-05-15 21:29|| 2015-05-15 21:29|| Front Page Top

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