Yes. You read that correctly.
NYC Mayor DeBlasio is about to pull 10,000 NYPD officers off the streets of New York City.
Despite soaring crime rates, Hizzoner has made his beliefs clear: a lack of cops is less harmful to society than a lack of Covid vaccines.
With less than 48 hours left until Mayor de Blasio’s arbitrary vaccination deadline for city workers – and following a state judge’s refusal to pause the deadline despite the mandate’s chaotic rollout – police union leaders are warning New Yorkers that the NYPD brass is completely unprepared for the staffing shortage that will result from the mandate’s haphazard implementation.
As of Thursday morning, there were approximately 10,000 unvaccinated, uniformed NYPD members – which equals the staffing of dozens of patrol precincts – who will be barred from reporting for duty on Monday, Nov. 1, unless they have applied for a religious or medical exemption.
The NYPD has yet to announce any detailed plans to address the possible staffing shortage, and it still hasn’t published its own policies to implement the mandate. In a video message to NYPD members yesterday, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea admitted that many practical questions remain unanswered, even though it has been more than a week since Mayor de Blasio announced the mandate and more than a month since Commissioner Shea publicly threw his support behind the mandate.
“I can’t tell you what rules don’t exist yet,” Shea told members two days before the deadline, “so I don’t want to give you bad information.”
PBA President Patrick J. Lynch: “New York City cannot afford to have a police department that is weak, disorganized and totally dominated by the irrational whims of City Hall. Unfortunately, that’s what the NYPD has become. Commissioner Shea and his team should have told the Mayor that this mandate and his arbitrary Friday deadline were going to throw NYPD operations into chaos. Instead, they froze like deer in headlights. Now cops and New Yorkers are all wondering: what exactly will happen with the vaccine deadline strikes?”
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A scenario that follows might look like this:
Two brazen burglars break and enter a home during the night. They are armed and dangerous. The homeowner confronts them, and uses his own licensed weapon in self defense. One burglar bleeds to death, the other is critically wounded. Video from security cameras shows all this. De Blasio’s police arrest the homeowner, pressure the DA to charge him with murder and attempted murder. Hizzoner also guides the families of the two burglars to take the case to civil court just in case the jury won’t convict the homeowner.
This mayor enjoys the drama of lawlessness. May he be its forst victim.
I think it’s just DeBlasio’s attempt to defund the police.
AMEN! to The little I know! So perfectly stated.
At the same time they can take care of Cuomo too.
this is more Democrats on this city council will bring, Saperstein couldve easily remained a Republican and still get PBA support but he chose to join AOC’s party.
This will not effect the ticket giving mosquitoes. Those dogs are “essential” for City coffers so not a single one of these lowlifes will be let go, vaccinated or not. Revenue is revenue. They’re not going to mess with that.
Is this affecting just the police, or are cuts being made across the city government? If the latter, this may be achieving a conservative goal of reducing the government power to a degree. They can always redirect some of the people in the offices to the streets.
It’s fun to see the liberals drown in their own mucus
Safek Pikuach Nefesh is Docheh Kol HaTorah Kula. Yup.
Anyone see the parallel I am drawing?
If all the cops would have stuck together and said we are not reporting to work this thing would have been settled
But again this is NY, many of not half of the cops are dumb liberals
Perhaps they could require all the criminals to get vaccinated. Declare that anyone mugging or breaking and entering without a vaccine will be cancelled. It’s the “P.C.” way to do law enforcement.
The unvaccinated NYPD officers are succeeding where the nutty far left failed: Defunding NYPD. Good work, fools! Get vaccinated!!! Your life might depend on it. More cops died last year from COVID than from criminals.