GREGG VIGLIOTTI/for New York Daily News
The scene of the crime
[From article]
Mayor de Blasio met with union leaders Tuesday in an effort to mend his rift with police officers. We’re told the meeting was respectful.
The gesture will be meaningless unless the mayor publicly repudiates his dangerous calumny of the police.
Following the nonindictment of Officer Daniel Pantaleo for the lethal arrest of Eric Garner last July, de Blasio said that Garner’s death and the grand jury’s failure to indict sprung from “not years of racism . . . , or decades of racism, but centuries of racism.” The mayor worries “every night,” he said, about the “dangers” his biracial son, Dante, may face from “officers who are paid to protect him.
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In 2013, criminals committed 1,103 shootings, wounding or killing 1,299 victims. NYPD officers, by contrast, fired their guns 40 times, despite having been dispatched 80,000 times to investigate weapons reports and having encountered guns and other weapons in more than 30,000 arrests.
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were 5% of all suspects shot by the police in 2013 though they committed only 2% of the city’s shootings — a 250% disparity. Blacks were 75% of criminal shooters and 79% of police shooting victims — virtual parity.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/heather-mac-donald-de-blasio-fateful-anti-cop-slander-article-1.2062346
De Blasio’s fateful anti-cop slander
Until he takes it back, the city risks sliding back into disorder
BY HEATHER MAC DONALD
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, January 1, 2015, 5:00 AM
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