here's the beef.....Mayor Bill de Blasio vs. NYPD

[spanone]

...or some of it.

Finally, de Blasio has been one of the fiercest critics of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy, which has seen hundreds of thousands of young black and Latino men wrongly

detained and subjected to searches. And of the candidates, he has been the most vocal and persistent supporter of a bill to prohibit racial profiling and impose greater

police oversight. He has also pledged to replace Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who stubbornly defends stop-and-frisk.

http://www.thenation.com/article/175637/bill-de-blasio-mayor#


AND HE WAS ELECTED BY OVER 73% OF THE VOTE.

[JaneyVee]

1. I would also add DeBlasio decriminalizing marijuana.

Police union came out against it for reasons I can only chalk up to cops having a harder time meeting quotas now that they can't lock up minorities so rampantly.

[daredtowork]

2. Because they won't get points for planting drugs anymore?

http://gothamist.com/2011/10/13/nypd_narcotics_detective_testifies.php

[blkmusclmachine]

3. You'd think it would be illegal to carry the drugs you intend to plant on unsuspecting victims.

[JaneyVee]

10. Jesus Christ.

[Ramses]

15. holy hell

This shouls be its own article here

[daredtowork]

18. I threw it in one last night.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026012558

Probably got lost in the shuffle of all the rest of the posts on the subject.

Note the second pic I got off of twitter, too.

[lobodons]

5. Dirty Money

There goes their easy access to all that dirty money.

[JaneyVee]

7. I knew a lady friend whose cop husband...

Would bring her home confiscated weed occasionally for her to smoke.

[branford]

4. There's also the fact that the PBA and City are engaged in very adversarial contract negotiations.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2014/12/8559215/bill-de-blasio-and-making-police-union-nemesis

The mayor's current polling is also not nearly as good as one year ago, and the police issue is arguably responsible for the large drop in his poll numbers.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/new-yorkers-who-like-cops-dont-like-de-blasio/

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/new-york-city/release-detail?ReleaseID=2120

In any event, every modern mayor has had major arguments with the police unions, even Giuliani and Bloomberg. To a native New Yorker, it's really not as notable as many believe.

[spanone]

6. yep, that's more of it.

thanks!

[former9thward]

8. De Blasio was against stop and frisk during the campaign.

He now opposes efforts to end it.

Mayor Bill De Blasio Breaks With Progressives Over Stop-And-Frisk Legislation

The mayor -- normally an ally of Torres, Reynoso and other left-leaning council members -- told reporters Wednesday that “we obviously have to protect the rights of our people, but we also have to make sure we are not in any way undermining the ability of law enforcement to do its job.”

De Blasio's opposition marks one of the few times the mayor has been in agreement with Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the city’s largest police union. Lynch told HuffPost in a statement that the Right To Know Act is “unnecessary.”

“There are already state laws -– enacted with great care and consideration -- that govern the use of any kind of force by police officers,” he said. “The Council’s meddling and uninformed proposals will prevent police officers from taking the actions that they reasonably believe they should to secure the situation in encounters with potentially armed and dangerous suspects. These proposals will endanger both the police and the public alike.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/13/right-to-know-act_n_6154856.html

[spanone]

9. not really. he opposed this particular bill. he's still committed to ending it.

Mayor Says New York City Will Settle Suits on Stop-and-Frisk Tactics

New York City will settle its long-running legal battle over the Police Department’s practice of stopping, questioning and often frisking people on the street — a divisive issue at the heart of the mayoral race last year — by agreeing to reforms that a judge ordered in August, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday.

In making the announcement, which he said he hoped would end a turbulent chapter in the city’s racial history, Mr. de Blasio offered a sweeping repudiation of the aggressive policing practices that had been a hallmark of his predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg, but that had stoked anger and resentment in many black and Latino neighborhoods. He essentially reversed the course set by Mr. Bloomberg, whose administration had appealed the judge’s ruling

“We’re here today to turn the page on one of the most divisive problems in our city,” Mr. de Blasio said at a news conference. “We believe in ending the overuse of stop-and-frisk that has unfairly targeted young African-American and Latino men.”

The judge, Shira A. Scheindlin of Federal District Court in Manhattan, found that the department’s stop-and-frisk tactics were unconstitutional, and that it had resorted to “a policy of indirect racial profiling.” At the height of the program, in the first quarter of 2012, the police stopped people — mostly black and Latino men — on more than 200,000 occasions. A vast majority of those stopped were found to have done nothing wrong.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/nyregion/de-blasio-stop-and-frisk.html

[former9thward]

19. So what is his proposal?

Since he opposes anything to end it. :Crickets:

[TxVietVet]

11. The NYPD cops Union is wrong.

First up, they show little or no respect for people of color. Then, they disrespect the mayor who is their boss. Now, who wants to say cops are getting a bad break.

Let their sorry asses wake up and smell the roses. They may find themselves in a situation where they will lose money.
The cops are supposed to be PUBLIC SERVANTS. To protect and serve the citizens of their city.

What f*ckin' part of that they don't understand is beyond me. Maybe someone should sit them all down and explain it to them.

[pocoloco]

14. As a general rule police have no duty under federal law to protect citizens.

Fortunately, self defense is considered a Human right.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. "What f*ckin' part of that they don't understand is beyond me."

There is a myth put out by the Right that "the Left" is the enemy. Many of these cops are on the Authoritarian Right and think of the Mayor as the enemy before any of this happened. Now the Right is using this as PROOF that the "the Left" (Which includes a majority of New Yorkers) are the enemy. They would LOVE IT if they could go all "brownshirt" and do a kristallnacht on Harlem.

[sheshe2]

12. KnR!

[WillyT]

13. K & R !!!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. The Right STILL claims there's a false choice between "stop and frisk" and crime.