The New York Times has an article on this. So does the New Yorker. Gawker’s article on it is pretty good too.
Thanks.
So, now that the police have stopped doing their job, I take it we can all hysterically scream that they have blood on their hands the next time someone is shot, or slips on a banana peel that wasn’t properly discarded. Cool game, Pat Lynch.
Just to be clear, those are not “articles”, they’re editorials. Cheesteak’s link doesn’t work for me, and I’m not seeing anything that says the NYPD is on strike in your links. I may have missed it, so correct me if I’m wrong (not that you’re saying so, but others are).
Try this one.
That’s not a strike. Looks like they are protesting the abandonment of the “broken windows” strategy.
Sounds like one to me. Mass refusal of employees to work. Not a wholesale refusal, but a refusal to carry out a substantial portion of their responsibilities in protest and/or to gain bargaining power over the mayor. Hence, arrests for minor offenses being down 66%, and for some offenses down 94%. In effect, that’s a strike whether the police declare it to be or not.
Why isn’t it a strike?
No where in the article you link is the word “strike” mentioned so that’s probably a clue. If you want to use words in non-standard ways you’ll have to define it so your audience can follow along.
So arrests are down - sounds like a win for the stop and frisk opponents at least.
Because they are still working.
The NY Post can omit whatever words they want; they are probably the most blindly cop-worshipping publication in America, so it doesn’t surprise me that they would put a charitable spin on the disgraceful behavior of the NYPD in the past week. Not all conservative commentatorsagree with the Post.
Care to explain how my use of the word “strike” is illicit? “Strike” is a fairly broad term and the reported actions by police officers fall well within its meaning. What would you call it? “On-job protest via not-doing-one’s-job?”
I’m not aware of the definitionof “strike” requiring full cessation of all work. For example, one type of strike:
My point frankly was not to get into a quibbling match over the definition of the word “strike.” Let me restate my original post, if you prefer:
But isn’t aren’t they just doing their jobs the way the Mayor thinks they should do them. a to of the broken window policing and stop and frisk necessitate that the cops are starting the encounter with the moral high ground. If the Mayor 1) doesn’t what that Guiliani-type of policing and looks at the cops’ interaction with people of color as starting from a cops are racist baseline, they’d be crazy to police as they had been.
So, I’m confused… conservatives are now supportive of public sector unions?
It makes sense when the particular public sector union is fighting for their right to use deadly force on THOSE PEOPLE without drawing criticism. The Right loves them some authoritarians…
Not me. The same actions by the police could be done if there was no union in place. I support that people who risk their lives to make the city safer for everyone not start the day with the DeBlasio narrative of “what are you going to do wrong today you racist bunch of cops”. Good for them for pushing back against this asshole. It’s truly amazing that New Yorkers voted for this leftist twit.
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.
It’s not illicit, just misleading. I see you’ve rephrased so that’s cool. I would probably characterize it as a work slowdown. Union sanctioned strikes have different characteristics and protection than other types of actions that you are alluding to. Being precise is important.
In any event, none of this changes my view on unions. I have no problem with them. They should also receive no special protection or recognition from the government.
I think this is bigger than the recent remarks by DeBlasio. It looks more like that was the straw that broke the camel’s back, and that this is a disagreement over police strategy. They don’t like what the democratic process in NYC produced, and they’re trying to change that with other tools they have at their disposal. There is a good chance this is going to backfire on them…
If the Mayor doesn’t think the NYPD should pursue “broken windows” policing, he has a very odd way of showing it.
No, he’s actually that stupid.
Well, protesters want cops to quit fighting crime, and Blasio sided with the protesters, so now cops aren’t fighting crime. Isn’t this what the protesters wanted?