NYPD Union President Patrick Lynch Is Completely Nuts: A History
June 2012: Lynch pilloried the New York Civil Liberties Union for “insulting” NYPD officers by creating a smartphone app that lets users record stop-and-frisk encounters and notify other users of nearby police activity:
Our main objection is that, as usual, the NYCLU’s idea is born of the assumption that the good men and women who wear the uniform of the NYPD and risk their lives to keep New Yorkers safe are doing something wrong. Frankly, that’s insulting to the very police officers who provide the freedom from fear and crime enjoyed by all New Yorkers, including members of the NYCLU.
This is said in defense of a policy that, at least in its implementation, assumed that almost all black and brown young men “are doing something wrong”. Someone needs to explain why any New Yorker that isn’t a police officer or a 1%er should respect anything he says.
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