NYPD detective on quitting, kneeling and the ‘demise of the city’
By Tina Moore
New York Post
June 27, 2020
An NYPD detective set to retire soon with 20 years under his belt tells The Post’s Police Bureau Chief Tina Moore why he is leaving the job he once loved — and why he fears the worst is yet to come for the Big Apple.
I could have stayed a little longer.
I haven’t been happy with the job for the last two or three years, but now it’s gotten to the point where it’s just absolutely ridiculous.
I can only speak for the Bronx, because I’ve worked in the Bronx my whole career.
And what’s going on with the DA’s office, and the bail reforms…the absolute absence of backing the cops coming from, you know, from City Hall down.
It’s really bad.
It’s a lot more difficult for the cops who have a lot of time on when things were a lot different to see what it’s become. I think it’s a lot more difficult for them than it is for the younger cops, who are walking into this now, and are getting groomed from the academy, as to what the job is now.
Yes, New York is a protest kind of town.
But it’s the manner in which the [George Floyd] protests took place, and how the brass was instructed to pretty much have hands-off on the protesters. That should never have been done.
The cops were pretty much sitting ducks.
They couldn’t defend themselves, because there was so many cameras on them and the public was just waiting for them to react. And the frontline bosses, like the sergeants and the lieutenants, were in a really bad position because they were there as leadership and they were the more visible leadership where the brass from One Police Plaza was not visible. And they were actually giving the orders.
I think the kneeling was the white flag.
The kneeling eliminated what little hope the cops had.
I think the kneeling sacrificed the cops.
What little expectation of authority the cops felt they had they lost it right there.
Leadership? A police commissioner is a figurehead. All orders are being set out by the mayor. All policy is being set out by the mayor, and the mayor has absolutely no idea what policing is especially in the forgotten neighborhoods like the South Bronx.
I don’t think the mayor has a concept of what happens on South Bronx streets. I think the mayor should take six months of nights and suit up and go out with the guys, in the precincts like the 40, 41, the 42, the 44, the 46. He thinks policing is what goes on in Manhattan. That’s not policing.
Now, they’re getting rid of a lot of guys a lot of plainclothes positions.
That is going to be the demise of the city.
Anti-crime guys are the guys are the guys who the real bad guys are looking out for. Anti-crime guys are going to drive around in not just unmarked cars. They’ll come around in other cars, rentals that the city gets that you wouldn’t think are police cars.
When you’re a really bad guy, and I’m talking about really bad guys, who won’t think twice about taking another life. When they step out of the car, those were the cops who they are afraid of.
These guys have one job and one job only. That’s what they trained for and that’s what they do over and over and over and over — look for guns, spot guns. It’s a sixth sense.
And they’re responsible for taking guns off he streets.
All these shootings going on? It’s because people are out there carrying guns freely now — without fear.
I could have stayed a little longer.
I haven’t been happy with the job for the last two or three years, but now it’s gotten to the point where it’s just absolutely ridiculous.
I can only speak for the Bronx, because I’ve worked in the Bronx my whole career.
And what’s going on with the DA’s office, and the bail reforms…the absolute absence of backing the cops coming from, you know, from City Hall down.
It’s really bad.
It’s a lot more difficult for the cops who have a lot of time on when things were a lot different to see what it’s become. I think it’s a lot more difficult for them than it is for the younger cops, who are walking into this now, and are getting groomed from the academy, as to what the job is now.
Yes, New York is a protest kind of town.
But it’s the manner in which the [George Floyd] protests took place, and how the brass was instructed to pretty much have hands-off on the protesters. That should never have been done.
The cops were pretty much sitting ducks.
They couldn’t defend themselves, because there was so many cameras on them and the public was just waiting for them to react. And the frontline bosses, like the sergeants and the lieutenants, were in a really bad position because they were there as leadership and they were the more visible leadership where the brass from One Police Plaza was not visible. And they were actually giving the orders.
I think the kneeling was the white flag.
The kneeling eliminated what little hope the cops had.
I think the kneeling sacrificed the cops.
What little expectation of authority the cops felt they had they lost it right there.
Leadership? A police commissioner is a figurehead. All orders are being set out by the mayor. All policy is being set out by the mayor, and the mayor has absolutely no idea what policing is especially in the forgotten neighborhoods like the South Bronx.
I don’t think the mayor has a concept of what happens on South Bronx streets. I think the mayor should take six months of nights and suit up and go out with the guys, in the precincts like the 40, 41, the 42, the 44, the 46. He thinks policing is what goes on in Manhattan. That’s not policing.
Now, they’re getting rid of a lot of guys a lot of plainclothes positions.
That is going to be the demise of the city.
Anti-crime guys are the guys are the guys who the real bad guys are looking out for. Anti-crime guys are going to drive around in not just unmarked cars. They’ll come around in other cars, rentals that the city gets that you wouldn’t think are police cars.
When you’re a really bad guy, and I’m talking about really bad guys, who won’t think twice about taking another life. When they step out of the car, those were the cops who they are afraid of.
These guys have one job and one job only. That’s what they trained for and that’s what they do over and over and over and over — look for guns, spot guns. It’s a sixth sense.
And they’re responsible for taking guns off he streets.
All these shootings going on? It’s because people are out there carrying guns freely now — without fear.
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