[MEDIAITE] The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
issued its second editorial against the NYPD in two days, this time excoriating the department for its alleged work slowdown.
The New York Post reported yesterday that police activity had plummeted since the union called for a work "slowdown" in response to Gotham Mayor Bill de Blasio's remarks following the Eric Garner decision and the ambush-style murder of two NYPD officers. (The protracted contract dispute has a good deal to do with it as well.)
The department's "list of grievances adds up to very little, unless you look at it through the magnifying lens of resentment fomented by union bosses and right-wing commentators," the ed board wrote Wednesday. (On Tuesday they chided the department for its "snarling sense of victimhood".)
The Times reminded the NYPD Wednesday morning that de Blasio was elected by a landslide to enact the sort of reforms, such as ending Stop and Frisk and quota-based policing, that he had since implemented, and that he had pumped millions of dollars into the department while overseeing a 4.4% drop in crime.
"Do your jobs," the paper advised. "The police are sworn public servants, and refusing to work violates their oath to serve and protect. Mr. Bratton should hold his commanders and supervisors responsible, and turn this insubordination around."