In recent days I’ve been razzing, pretty heavily, on the New York City Police Department. Recently, the New York Times ran a nice article by Michael M. Grynbaum, J. David Goodman, and Al Baker listing all of Mayor William de Blasio’s missteps with the police, strongly suggesting that de Blasio came into office as lazy,…
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More bad news from the New York City Police Department
Steve Osborne, a retired lieutenant with the New York City Police Department, turns in a depressing yet predictable op-ed for the New York Times. It is a measure of restraint, but only a measure, that Lt. Osborne does not go nearly as far as Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, who notoriously announced…
As far as the NYPD is concerned, you’re in a New York State of Mind
The New York Police Department girdles the globe, Daniel Larison Philip Giraldi reports in the American Conservative, with agents of its “International Liaison Department (ILP)” in 11 countries, most notably Israel. These self-appointed experts are apparently not much appreciated by the U.S. State Department, but, you know, fahgeddaboutit, this is Noo Yawk, even when it…