New York Posting

A bunch of stories about the NYPD and New York City

Twelve days without a murder....and then:

• The murder-free streak is a distant memory.
  
  Nine people were slain last week following a record setting 12-day long stretch without a homicide, the latest police statistics show.
  
  The week ending Sunday had eight more murders than the same stretch in 2014.
  
  The NYPD also reports a 100 percent increase in murder arrests for the same week, from four to eight.

100% increase in murder arrests? Must be CompStat!

Then you have this stupidity:

• Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered sweeping reforms for the NYPD after the Eric Garner death — but his demands were handled by a goofball police bigwig whose ideas included arming cops with breath mints and spraying protesters with baby oil, sources revealed Thursday.
  
  Michael Julian, who was appointed deputy commissioner of training in November, lasted just two months on the job before his ridiculed proposals got him transferred out, the sources said.
  
  “He would come up with these wacky ideas. We would roll our eyes and move on,” a police source said.
  
  The last straw came in late January — less than a week before Julian was reassigned — when a box of 10,000 individually wrapped breath mints arrived at headquarters.

There's a Keesing Bandit joke in here somewhere....we can just feel it.

And finally, just when things couldn't get any worse:

• Cops should “take a deep breath’’ — and close their eyes — when dealing with angry people, according to the NYPD’s new “retraining’’ program.
  
  The potentially dangerous advice is part of a $35 million “smart policing’’ primer by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton that most of the cops who have gone through it say is completely useless.
  
  One cop who sat through two full-day programs called them “not realistic’’ and “pretty silly.”
  
  At one point during the lectures, the cop said, those in attendance were given breathing exercises to learn how to calm down — even when facing someone who could pose a threat to their safety.

Bratton is a fucking moron for going along with any of this. He's there to burnish de Blassio's crime fighting credentials which (as a left-wing radical and supporter of various Central American commies) are really non-existent. It's kind of sad that he's fallen so low as to support something that tells Officers to "close their eyes" in any situation where their life is in danger.