Arrests plummet 66% with NYPD in virtual work stoppage

[Jesus Malverde]

It’s not a slowdown — it’s a virtual work stoppage.

NYPD traffic tickets and summonses for minor offenses have dropped off by a staggering 94 percent following the execution of two cops — as officers feel betrayed by the mayor and fear for their safety, The Post has learned.

It has helped contribute to a nose dive in low-level policing, with overall arrests down 66 percent for the week starting Dec. 22 compared with the same period in 2013, stats show.

Citations for traffic violations fell by 94 percent, from 10,069 to 587, during that time frame.

Summonses for low-level offenses like public drinking and urination also plunged 94 percent — from 4,831 to 300.

Even parking violations are way down, dropping by 92 percent, from 14,699 to 1,241.

Drug arrests by cops assigned to the NYPD’s Organized Crime Control Bureau — which are part of the overall number — dropped by 84 percent, from 382 to 63.

http://nypost.com/2014/12/29/arrests-plummet-following-execution-of-two-cops/

[tridim]

1. That is incredible.

It speaks volumes about the real problem that the police don't want to talk about.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Hmmm, maybe NYC doesn't need 35,000 cops. City council should discuss.

These are all "discretionary" policing arrests that aren't happening.

If those poor NYPD cops "feel betrayed by the mayor and fear for their safety," maybe they should try other careers.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. Just pass a 3% income tax increase on incomes over 1 million to make up for the lost revenue.

[Jesus Malverde]

6. I have yet to hear about anarchy in the streets.

You might be on to something.

[SunSeeker]

32. You nailed it, Comrade Grumpy!

[Daemonaquila]

37. Time for "right-sizing" the NYPD

You mean that 66% of your arrests were just harassment and bottom-feeding to meet a ticket quota? Thanks for the info - I guess that means we need a whole lot less of you cluttering up NYC. Buh-bye!

[TheKentuckian]

54. Nonsense, I bet an appreciable percentage of the remainder is also bullshit.

[spanone]

3. strike or go home.

[NOVA_Dem]

5. Maybe the police shouldn't be used to generate revenue for the gov't.

The police are trying to harm the city budget by decreasing revenue.

[Throd]

8. +35,000

[PoliticAverse]

11. Less arrests also means less overtime $$$s for them as well. n/t

[BrotherIvan]

15. Yup!

Not shocked by this outcome at all. If these cops are arresting and ticketing people in order to pay their salary, that should be compared to institutionalized banditry, not peace keeping.

[msongs]

24. extortion at gunpoint aka robbery nt

[ecstatic]

33. nailed it! nt

[villager]

45. That's really all that the majority of "police" "work" really is. Asymmetrical taxes...

...imposed on the most vulnerable...

[BrotherIvan]

52. Extortion is the word I was looking for

Corruption is the other!

I really wish there was some way to have a general rethink and rebuild of police and security in this country because it is definitely out of hand.

[LittleBlue]

22. Bingo

These so-called traffic violations are little more than a tax by other means. The worst are those cameras.

[daredtowork]

7. Is there a perception crime has gone up?

Or are the arrests not being made the arrests that were being fabricated to meet quotas before?

[951-Riverside]

9. Good!

NYPD traffic tickets and summonses for minor offenses have dropped off by a staggering 94 percent

Maybe they can now start fighting real crime instead of waddling their FAT asses around the city writing tickets all day, harassing street vendors, throwing pregnant women to the ground, beating up random protesters, beating up jay walkers, beating each other up, etc.

[Triana]

10. Republican playbook adapted by NYPD

https://twitter.com/Marmel/status/549960013343502336

Obstruct. Destruct. Deflect. Project. Blame.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. That says a whole bunch, doesn't it? n/t

[progressoid]

13. They'll soon start calling it "the de Blasio crime wave"

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

14. As Martha Stewart might say, 'It's a good thing!'

Time to start laying off 66% of the force, since they're apparently unnecessary.

[ZX86]

16. I was watching that show on Fox News today.

You know the one where you get to look up the skirt of a news model while she babbles nonsensical, right wing talking points. Oh wait, that's all them. Oh well anyways, the Fox liberal said that the work slow down doesn't hurt the mayor but the citizens they're sworn to serve and that they should do the job they were hired to do.

The other Fox News bunnies had a fit. Watching them sputter and spin their usual right wing talking point into something that resembled a logical, coherent thought was quite entertaining.

[hunter]

17. They'd best be careful.

People might decide they like it that way.

Our mid-sized city police force is chronically overworked and understaffed. They don't respond quickly to much of anything but active gunfights, bleeding victims on the ground, and physical assaults.

They are also known to be dangerously trigger happy with some propensity to shoot annoyingly and potentially dangerous mentally ill people.

I'm not sure, but maybe it's a good thing that most people in our city think twice before calling the police for any non-life-threatening emergency.

Who needs that sort of trouble?

I can go out and yell at kids who are tagging my property. I don't need police help for that. Sometimes I recognize the kids and call their mothers. My training and experiences as an urban school teacher were very useful.

Our police have a nice website to report minor incidents. If somebody throws a rock through your kitchen window, steals your bicycle, tags or dings your car, then you can report it on the police website and a nice community services officer will acknowledge it in a day or two and give you a case number that will satisfy your insurance company.

I think the U.S.A. in general has more police officers than it needs, and about half of them are rotten.

[DefenseLawyer]

18. Keep your bullet in your pocket, Barney n/t

[Warpy]

19. Every other mayor for decades has made peace with the police union

by simply ignoring all the problems in the department.

I imagine this Lynch character is absolutely outraged that somebody is threatening his fiefdom by saying reform needs to be enacted. How dare he? He's only the stupid mayor. These are COPS he's talking about, the last bastion of civilization and morality.

Only they're not.

DeBlasio is the first guy with the guts to take those bastards on. I hope he calls in the Feds. I also hope he survives the effort.

In the meantime. New Yorkers can breathe a sigh of relief for a few days, knowing that the petty harassment will stop for a while and that children of color can walk to school without being slammed against a wall and frisked for dope.

[Enthusiast]

20. Those involved in this should lose their job.

This is entirely politically motivated.

[Cali_Democrat]

21. So the cops are scared?

Now they now how blacks feel.

Soak it in, fuckers.

[Kingofalldems]

23. I notice the NY post put their little RW slant on the story.

Any other sources?

[Man from Pickens]

34. NYPost loves cops

explicitly, from their own admission

Gee, why would a newsrag owned by one of the world's wealthiest men have such a hard-on for cops? Hmmm...

[Rex]

25. So IOW, 66% of their job is BS money raising revenue for the city? How surprising.

I mean is that true or is there anarchy in the streets? Crime spiked up 100 fold yet? What say you NYCers?

[randys1]

26. Imagine you live in Ferguson, MO and you are unemployed and barely surviving

yet the police ticket you for everything imaginable.

And still that town is standing, amazing patience shown by the residents.

[Rex]

27. The crime of disenfranchisement on that scale in 2014 boggles my mind.

Can't afford to move, have almost no money due to excessive abuse by law enforcement and mere survival. Don't have time too much work and fear reprisal for complaining or just standing out in general. I'm sure it is 10X worse than I am describing for many.

[randys1]

28. And on top of that you get shot in the head twice for jaywalking then allow a liar to

testify so you get off the shooter.

And this is what happened and NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE ABOUT IT

Which is why I will neither be surprised or bothered if I wake up tomorrow, turn on the TV, and find out entire cities are burning.

Well, bothered of course because the racists (white people) could have prevented it and didnt.

Bothered because it does NOT have to be this way but certain people, now to include the NYPD are insisting it be this way...

[Rex]

29. Yeah or just standing on a corner you always hang out on

and the same group of white pigs that harass you daily , decide that day to choke you to death. A group of supposed humans watch video footage of this and say it was justified. Case closed.

Meanwhile, NYPD cops then act like a gaggle of spoiled five year olds and give a big FU to all of NYC at a funeral. Because a dad had 'that talk' with his black son. Which seems required in 2014 America.

It pisses me off to no end.

[randys1]

48. It pisses me off to no end, too...and it is gonna take white folk like us, not sure if

you are but I am, to be pissed off.

White folk like us who are seeing much of this for the first time, at least on this scale, due to social media and camera phones and so on, have to finally put our butts on the line for the cause.

I know I am willing to do that.

I do admit I worry about the racists who are viciously violent

[joshcryer]

43. Raising money for the police department.

It's a mafia-style cartel.

[lpbk2713]

30. Babies.

They might as well stay home and keep the fug out of the way if they're not going to do anything useful.

[ecstatic]

31. This is good news. The first step to reform is re-evaluating the job description

of police officers. They should be restricted to dealing with emergency situations only. All the revenue-collecting schemes need to end. If our society decides that we absolutely must have someone overseeing traffic and parking violations, shift that role to a NON ARMED person (or just let cameras take over that job). If someone parks in the wrong place or goes 10 miles above the speed limit, they should not have to be confronted by an armed person.

[truedelphi]

36. And while we are at it, we should change the name from "police" to

"Agents of the Corporate State" as that is what most police are really about 95% of the time.

And the other five percent of the time, they are about themselves. Like when they go in and steal property from someone whose house was abandonend temporarily, like right after a minor fire.

[Augiedog]

35. Really? Throw the people who pay your salary under the bus? Bad cop, no doughnut!

Is this kinda like taking the entire populace hostage? Let us do whatever we want or else? Dumbasses.

[bigwillq]

38. Unless I missed it

don't think the article said whether or not crime was down. That would be an interesting statistic.

I, for you, see the drops in summonses and citations as a good thing, as long as crime levels stay low or at average levels.

[joshcryer]

44. Looks like a 10% drop:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/crime_prevention/crime_statistics.shtml

[bigwillq]

46. Cool.

Thanks for the link.

Time to start cutting back on officers.

[joshcryer]

47. Would like to see someone graph it out.

Just to make the point more clear.

Could also be associated with the general climate. Crime tends to drop after tragedy for whatever reason.

[bigwillq]

49. That's beyond my skill level.

LOL

Not good with graphs and charts.

[Logical]

39. Lets cut their salary's by 66%. Assholes. Classy as usual! nt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

40. I'm bothered by the fact the police seem to act as one

They all turn their backs to the Mayor. They seem to be trying to punish society as one by withdrawing their service and protection at the same time. I hate having the suspicion that they close ranks and hide criminals in their midst as one. I know individually that some of them are good. But it bothers me when they seem to act as if it's us against the world and close ranks within that blue line. When they're hiding the bad apples and extorting the public by trying to scare them when they stop fighting crime, I can't judge them as individuals. When they do this, they're all bad.

[QuestionableC]

41. Good -- less time dealing with trivial offenses, more time to protect and serve.

[Sunlei]

42. on surface this is a good thing. However, any police who ignore clear cut violations like parking &

public drunks should be fired. On the other hand perhaps even those past violations (urine in public/public drunk/parking violations) weren't really true and police lied when they charged thousands of people for those violations.

If the NYPD all wore cameras we would have known by now and things would not have come to this.

[sendero]

50. It's going to really suck for the NYPD..

....when the average NYer realizes that nothing has changed.

[peacebird]

51. +10000!

[Vattel]

53. The NYPD culture is a mess.

The real Serpico (not Al Pacino) says that NYPD cops today still snub him even though he revealed criminal corruption in the NYPD way back in the 1970s. I mean, some of the cops snubbing him today didn't even exist or were in diapers when Serpico exposed corruption, and there is no question that Serpico revealed criminal activity. So it doesn't surprise me that they are closing ranks and refusing to work with the mayor to make things better in NYC.