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In reply to the discussion: Would Be A Shame If Something Happened To Your City There, Bill [View all]NJCher
(35,620 posts)Reagan. Air traffic controllers.
Consider this, the best paragraph of all from what kpete has posted above. This was written by the blog balloonjuice:
So your brilliant, devious plan is this: youre going to show the people who believe that the NYPD is full of power-hungry bullies and paramilitary goons what for by displaying to the country exactly how most of the collars you make are in fact wholly unnecessary exercises of petty microagression towards the citizenry you hold in open and rancorous contempt.
To put it in plain terms, the police have the mayor's dick in a wringer because the city depends on extorted $$ from low-income people.
That is due to a faulty arrangement about which DeBlasio had no say. It's kind of like the dickhead deal dealt to Obama by Bush/Cheney.
The police account for a good percentage of the city's income through, as stated above, "petty microagression (sic) towards the citizenry you hold in open and rancorous contempt."
This will be real interesting.
And kpete, thanks for a valuable post. This is an issue I've been tracking for the last 10 months. It looks like it's about to burst wide open, not withstanding a devil's deal between the police union and the mayor.
Cher