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Monday, December 22, 2014

I Stand With The Men And Women of the NYCPD



Under normal circumstances, I intentionally avoid commenting on anything remotely connected to politics in my postings to this site but I have decided to stray from the norm as explained below.

Over the past several months I have witnessed and not commented upon our Mayor continually espouse his view of our city as one divided by race, class and income inequality, his own “progressive” and sophomoric “Tale of Two Cities.”

I have witnessed our Mayor defend his salaried appointment of an individual, previously employed by Al Sharpton, who shares her home with a convicted killer and homophobic  cop hater as “Chief of Staff” for his wife.

I have witnessed and not commented upon our Mayor’s decimation of the “stop and frisk” policy despite warnings that, in doing so, he would invite a return of increased violent crime.

I have witnessed and not commented upon our City Council election of a Speaker who had refused to recite the pledge of allegiance as an act of protest only until she started to gather votes within the Council for her election to the Speaker’s position.

I have witnessed and not commented upon the ignominious Al Sharpton being given a seat a table with our Mayor and Police Commissioner and threaten that he would become their “worst enemy” if his demands that our Police Department abandon  its “Broken Windows” conceptual theory in addressing crime were not met.

I have witnessed and not commented upon our Mayor publicly proclaim that for years he has believed that the NYC Police Department is such a dangerous and racist organization that his own bi-racial son is at serious risk.

I have witnessed and not commented upon  crowds of protestors being green-lighted by City Hall to illegally close roads, bridges and retail establishments while publicly proclaiming “What do we want – Dead cops!”

I have witnessed and not commented upon a Baruch College Professor smile and laugh at his arraignment on charges of attempting to assault two Police Lieutenants with a metal garbage can during a protest on the Brooklyn Bridge.

I have witnessed and not commented upon the cold blooded execution of two New York City Police Officers as they sat in their patrol car on a street in Brooklyn last week.

I have witnessed and not commented upon the myriad and vile social media postings of fellow citizens applauding the deaths of these two innocent men and praising the piece of garbage individual who murdered them.

My words are not meant to caste blame as I am just as much to blame for the current toxic environment that envelops our city as anyone else because, until now, I have failed to speak out.  

That silence ends today.

I have spent the past several days giving this issue much thought and I have come to the conclusion that we are at a crossroad, one that demands a choice be made regarding what path we shall all continue on.

Whether intentionally or out of stupidity, our Mayor and his ilk have managed to divide us by drawing a line in the sand between the citizenry of our great city and the New York City Police Department.  The purpose of this posting is to apologize for my previous silence and to make it explicitly clear on what side of that line I stand.

I stand with the men and women of the New York City Police Department.

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