‘Back’ to Bad Old Days: NYPD’s Turn Against Blas
New York City cops turned their backs on Mayor de Blasio when he came to the hospital that held the corpses of the two officers murdered by a vengeanceseeking street thug (“Anger of The Finest,” Editorial, Dec. 22).
This show of disrespect and contempt is potent and understandable. But is it advisable to turn your back on such a backstabbing, treacherous louse whose anticop rhetoric incites thugs?
It saddens and infuriates me that those who were once treated as heroes in the wake of 9/11 are now labeled homicidal racists with the rhetoric of de Blasio, Sharpton and Obama.
Les Lopinot
Oswego, Ill.
While the focus is on the mayor, who was always a copbasher, members of the NYPD need to remember the role that Commissioner Bill Bratton played in failing to defend them. It began with the mayor’s advice to his son to be wary of the police; Bratton remained mute.
Then Bratton went along with uncontrolled anarchy on the streets and bridges. He was silent when the protesters called for dead cops. He was clearly missing in action. He allowed himself to be tonguelashed by Rev. Al Sharpton and the City Council. How much can you give up just for the sake of a job? He should hang his head.
The mayor and Bratton have both lost this department for the next three years. Phil Serpico
Queens
Bratton’s tonedeaf support for Mayor de Blasio, the man who appointed him, reflects a complete lack of understanding about the ticking time bomb facing New York. Describing his officers’ backs, turned in protest, as “reflective of the anger of some of them” creates a massive, irreversible divide between the commissioner and the officers he leads.
Expecting a political animal like Bratton to stand with his officers against the man who can fire him would be naive, especially when President Obama, de Blasio, Eric Holder and others have allowed opportunistic leeches like Al Sharpton to hijack the conversation and the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
They have unleashed a new round of hate and disrespect for authority, incited a war on police and lit the fuse on a new race war.
The first blood is directly on their hands. Unless they sever ties with liars like Sharpton, the next round of bloodshed will be worse.
With or without political leadership, disarming the ticking time bomb will be a long and complicated process. Michael Sanchez
Manhattan
After 16 years here, I’m turning my back, liter ally, on a governor who said I wasn’t welcome, a mayor who attacks the people paid to protect me, an unelected deputy mayor/wife with the hubris to believe she’s entitled to micromanage the police and an unelected deputy mayor/racehustler with one dead body to his name, who already believes he’s entitled to a seat at the table of power, but not required to pay his taxes.
Two good men are dead because of the unchecked lunacy of liberal politicians, from Albany to City Hall, and I’m making for the borders before the start of the third Lindsay administration, when decay, debt, death and desperation will overwhelm the city. I do not love New York any more. Jim Fitzgerald
Manhattan
While many of us dress for work in a skirt or suit, police officers put on bulletproof vests due to the inherent danger of their job. Yet the mayor of this city seems complacent about protesters who scream for dead cops. Now two of New York’s Finest have been murdered, a direct result of the indignant environment fostered by de Blasio’s pernicious attitude toward the police department.
Shame on him for igniting our city with racial tension and making it unsafe. He’s the most imprudent mayor this city has ever seen. He should resign and get out of the way of the progress New York City made during the Bloomberg and Giuliani administrations.
Kristin Bianco Upper Brookville