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New York (AFP) - New York is hurtling back to "the bad old days of high crime" under current Mayor Bill de Blasio, a major police union has warned, drawing a sharp rebuke from the Democrat.
"The degradation of our streets is on the rise," said Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, urging the Democratic Party to choose another city to hold its 2016 convention.
In a full-page open letter in The New York Times, Mullins said that the city was "lurching backwards to the bad old days of high crime, danger-infested public spaces, and families that walk our streets worried for their safety."
Mullins, whose association claims to be the largest senior police officers' union in the United States, said that shootings had jumped 13 percent citywide since last year.
He accused de Blasio of making "dangerous choices" and said that the New York Police Department (NYPD) was "understaffed, overworked and underpaid."
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Police union is hinting at a giant raise or NYC will go down in flames like the 70s
Hoping and Praying it does. Just look at Time Square and the chaos going on there. It's a sign of the times. This city needs to puke up what it has ingested in the past 12 years and start from scratch again. It cannot sustain itself in the current state.
There is no future with this NYC. What ? More tourists more residents no infrastructure to support it. Higher and higher cost of living with no increase in wages or employment. Foreign investors owning more and more of this city. Who are they kidding ? NYC is up for the taking and once the dealings done there will be nothing left on the shelves.
Ok... I didn't follow everything all the time, but regardless politics, are the facts he cited correct? Aren't shootings up 13% or at least considerably if it's not exactly 13%?
Overall crime is actually down, and the NYPD has actually distanced themselves from these statements. This is old hat. Every time the NYPD union needs or wants a new contract they drum up this talk.
Things are gettin worse,I see it wit my own eyes. Don't need no one ta point it out.
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