[ May 4, 2024 ]
Good. This has not been the NYPD’s finest hour.
Not. at. all.
The New York City Police Benevolent Association, the city’s largest police union, released a statement Monday arguing that officers should not be tasked with enforcing social distancing ordinances.
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“The NYPD needs to get cops out of the social distancing enforcement business altogether,” PBA president Patrick Lynch said in a statement. “As the weather heats up & the pandemic continues to unravel our social fabric, police officers should be allowed to focus on our core public safety mission. If we don’t, the city will fall apart before our eyes.”
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NYPD union wants cops out of ‘social distancing enforcement’
BY NY Post, May 4, 2020:
The city’s largest police union is demanding cops get “out of the social distancing enforcement business,” while slamming New York pols for “releasing criminals,” “discouraging proactive policing,” and leaving subways “in chaos.”
“This situation is untenable: the NYPD needs to get cops out of the social distancing enforcement business altogether,” a statement from Police Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch said.
“The cowards who run this city have given us nothing but vague guidelines and mixed messages, leaving the cops on the street corners to fend for ourselves,” Lynch said. “Nobody has a right to interfere with a police action. But now that the inevitable backlash has arrived, they are once again throwing us under the bus.”
Lynch was referring to a fracas that erupted as NYPD cops were trying to enforce social distancing rules over the weekend in the East Village and a cop was caught on video slapping and hitting a bystander who appeared to challenge him.
Cops were trying to disperse a group of people near the corner of East Ninth Street and Avenue D around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, when Shakiem Brunsom and Ashley Serrano allegedly refused to move along and resisted cops’ efforts to cuff them, police said.
One of the cops, identified by police sources as Officer Francisco Garcia, got into a fight with bystander Donni Wright, 33, police sources said. The cop was placed on modified duty and stripped of his gun and shield, police sources said. The Manhattan district attorney declined to prosecute Wright and he was set free.
Lynch added that the politicians are “still watering down our laws, releasing real criminals and discouraging proactive enforcement of fare evasion and quality of life issues.”
“As a result, our subways are in chaos and we have hero nurses getting mugged on their way to our hospitals,” he said, referring to a nurse who had her phone torn out of her hand in Times Square on April 26. “As the weather heats up and the pandemic continues to unravel our social fabric, police officers should be allowed to focus on our core public safety mission. If we don’t, the city will fall apart before our eyes.”
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams also wants cops out of the social distancing business but for different reasons. He believes the process is racist.
“It has been two weeks since my office requested that the administration release demographic data on social distancing enforcement, and over a month since we cautioned against a response reliant on law enforcement rather than a more holistic community enforcement strategy,” he said. “Now, we see both why they have been resistant to our calls and why it is even more critical and urgent they address this selective enforcement against people and communities of more color.”
He said recent social distancing incidents — including a large Orthodox Jewish funeral service in Brooklyn — have made it clear that the same racial disparities that occurred in stop-and-frisk are happening with social distancing enforcement.
“The incidents we saw this past weekend in our parks and on our streets and social media feeds have made it abundantly clear that the same historical disparities in police enforcement are reflected in and magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic response,” he said.
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11 Comments
3 years ago
The CDC is corrupt and out of control! They literally want to TRACK YOU!
CDC Asks Tech Giants Twitter, Google, Facebook for Location of US Citizens —
Will Track Whether Americans Are Practicing Proper “Social Distancing”
By Jim Hoft
Published March 19, 2020
The CDC is asking tech giants for access to Americans’ cellphone locations. That way the government can track the location of every American and see whether Americans are properly practicing “social distancing.” This sounds like a futuristic nightmare in realtime.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/it-begins-cdc-asks-tech-giants-twitter-google-facebook-for-location-of-us-citizens-will-track-whether-americans-are-practicing-proper-social-distancing/
3 years ago
USC, Emory Creating Coronavirus Surveillance System
Similar to China’s Social Credit Scoring
DAVID NG 4 May 2020
China launched its notorious social credit system last year to watch over its own citizens and mete out punishment based on personal behavior and loyalty to the Communist Party.
Now three prominent U.S. universities are using taxpayer money to create a similar type of surveillance network designed to monitor Americans and assign them scores based on their exposure to the Wuhan coronavirus.
Tech news outlet dot.LA recently reported that researchers at the University of Southern California, Emory University, and the University of Texas Health Science Center have received a federal grant to create a mobile app for contact tracing the novel coronavirus. The system will track a person’s real-time location and symptoms, and calculate a personal COVID-19 risk score.
USC’s Cyrus Shahabi, chair of the computer science department, told dot.LA that the universities hope to have a working mobile app by August, in time for the start of the fall semester. He said policymakers could use the system to warn the public to avoid hotspots of infection.
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Apple and Google announced this year that they are working on a separate Bluetooth application that will provide contact tracing of the coronavirus using smartphone location data.
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/05/04/usc-emory-creating-coronavirus-surveillance-system-similar-to-chinas-social-credit-scoring/
3 years ago
NYPD officers are not school-hall monitors. De Blasio would relegate them to a lower status if permitted. NYC under the cop-hating, Jew-hating and Christian-hating de Blasio is the den of iniquity.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Ideally, he’d like to eliminate all law enforcement and let out all criminals from prisons.
Police union calls Mayor Bill de Blasio ‘full of sh–‘ for
offering condolences after officer’s suicide
Vandana Rambaran By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News 6/27/19
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The president of the Police Benevolent Association (PBA), Patrick Lynch, released a statement condemning the mayor’s remarks.
“Mayor de Blasio has apparently learned nothing over the past six years about the extremely damaging impact of anti-police rhetoric on both cops and the communities we serve,” Lynch said.“The hostile and dangerous environment we now face on the street is a direct result of the demonization of cops by de Blasio and other elected officials.”
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/police-union-calls-mayor-bill-de-blasio-full-of-sh-for-expressing-condolences-after-officers-suicide
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3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
You are absolutely, Felix; de Blasio, the faux-Democrats, and every Liberal fascist hate cops. Not to dismiss BLM or ANTIFA, who are an appendage of the Democrats and Obama’s eight year tenures of cop-bashing, Jew-bashing and anti-America vitriol.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Agreed. If releasing dangerous criminals from jail is a mitigation effort against the coronavirus, would not incarcerations for social distancing violations meet the legal standard for cruel and unusual punishment?
3 years ago
That’s easy. Just turn a blind eye to it. Unless someone complains vociferously, then go through the motions.
3 years ago
It is asinine to expect cops to enforce social distancing. They already have enough on their equipment belts that there is no room for a measuring tape.
3 years ago
“The cowards who run this city have given us nothing but vague guidelines and mixed messages, leaving the cops on the street corners to fend for ourselves,”
YeeHaa !…..I’ve always Known there was an,…...Evil,“Cake and Eat it too”, and it Has been Identified
and found wanting,and Tasteless
Tear them up Patrick Lynch !
The Cops have been pushed to the Limits,Of choosing, Them or Us.
Bad can Push the Good so hard,that the Good can do things,they wouldn’t have.Normally done. That’s HUMAN
NOT a good position you wanna put a Cop.
3 years ago
” “The cowards who run this city have given us nothing but vague
guidelines and mixed messages, leaving the cops on the street corners to
fend for ourselves,” Lynch said. “Nobody has a right to interfere with a
police action. But now that the inevitable backlash has arrived, they
are once again throwing us under the bus.”
Lynch was referring to a fracas that erupted as NYPD cops were trying
to enforce social distancing rules over the weekend in the East Village
and a cop was caught on video slapping and hitting a bystander who appeared to challenge him.”
That particular “officer” should be executed for his UNWARRANTED ATTACK on a Private Citizen – at the very least, he should spend the rest of his life in prison.
Lynch ….. Have you ever bothered to read the Constitution…. you know, the document that YOU are sworn to uphold ….. the document that is the Highest Law of the Land?
Anyone, SWORN TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION, who attempt to “enforce” this UNLAWFUL LEGISLATION, has “made war on the Constitution and this Republic” and is, BY DEFINITION, committing Treason.
“Any ‘legislation’ in violation of the Constitution, IS NOT LAW AND NEED NOT BE OBEYED” … at least in the eyes of the supreme court.
3 years ago
Wrong.
These “officers” are the NEW Camp Guards.
They are SWORN, by OATH, to OBEY the Law.
An Oath taken from our SOULS, the BEING of Who We Are.
They claim to be defenders from things that chill your thoughts.
One Mission-Service. Their Guide?
The Constitution of The United States Of America.
NOT ILLEGAL ORDERS
There are 18 Civil Rights Violations demonstrated HERE.
Orange suits. Trial at Gitmo.
Officers FIRST.
Just like mess…
Oh, yeah, bitching coppers-
Didn’t witness ANY mass-resignations, now did we?
