New York City Murders Fall, but the Police Aren’t Celebrating
Source: NY Times
The number of murders in New York City has hit what just a few years ago would have been a seemingly impossible low: 321 killings in 2014, with only a day left in the year, the lowest figure since before the Police Department began collecting reliable statistics in 1963.
But there is little celebration among the city’s police, who have heard calls to reverse their policing practices and found their representatives in a public struggle with Mayor Bill de Blasio that, in the last week, has led to a dramatic drop in the policing of everyday crime.
In the week since two Brooklyn officers were killed by a man who singled them out for their police uniforms, the number of summonses for minor criminal offenses, as well as those for parking and traffic violations, has decreased by more than 90 percent versus the same week a year earlier, and felony arrests were nearly 40 percent lower, according to Police Department statistics.
The two precincts directly affected by the deaths – the 79th, where Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were killed on Dec. 20, and the 84th, where they were usually assigned – saw a single criminal summons in the week. Officers wrote no parking or traffic tickets. By contrast, the combined tally of criminal summonses alone during the same week last year reached 130.
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is how someone described these NYPD tactics (back-turning, refusing to do an honest days work, etc.).
And i agree with that.
I would only add that it also reeks of classic protection racketeering
keep you safe at night while you're sleeping" (paraphrase of Patrick Lynch CEO of cops "union"
How do we make that into something bad? 
