Emails and Racist Chats Show How Cops and GOP Are Teaming Up to Undermine de Blasio

[Liberal_in_LA]

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AlterNet / By Max Blumenthal comments_image 388 COMMENTS
Emails and Racist Chats Show How Cops and GOP Are Teaming Up to Undermine de Blasio
Threats seem to expose a political plot against the NYC mayor and the BlackLivesMatter movement.

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http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/emails-and-racist-chats-show-how-cops-and-gop-are-teaming-undermine-de-blasio

AlterNet has obtained emails revealing plans to organize a series of anti-de Blasio protests around the city until the summer of 2015. Billed as a non-partisan movement in support of “the men and women of the NYPD,” the protests are being orchestrated by a cast of NYPD union bosses and local Republican activists allied with Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor who recently called on de Blasio to “say you’re sorry to [NYPD officers] for having created a false impression of them.” The first rally is planned to take place at Queens Borough Hall at noon on January 13.

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National Police Defense Foundation executive director Joseph Occhipinti chimed in to offer help in coordinating the demonstrations. “I would suggest that everything go through the [Patrick Lynch’s Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association] for any organized protests,” he added. A former agent of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Occhipinti was convicted in 1991 of conducting illegal searches and narrowly escaped jail time for allegedly stealing $16,000 from his victims. When the US attorney who secured his conviction, Jeh Johnson, was appointed by Obama to direct the Department of Homeland Security last year, Occhipinti rushed to the right-wing writer Charles C. Johnson to complain.

The anger coursing through the ranks of the NYPD is driving union bosses like Lynch to ratchet up their rhetoric against the mayor. Lynch is up for election soon and seems desperate to channel the resentment of his constituents. Meanwhile, Republican operatives see a chance to do fatal damage to a rising Democratic star and close Clinton ally by resurrecting the kind of racial backlash politics that won them urban white votes during the Nixon era.

[bluestateguy]

1. Bill De Blasio is the Mayor

Not Rudy Giuliani, not Michael Bloomberg.

Any cop who has a problem with that is welcome to look elsewhere for employment, or move to another city.

[Snarkoleptic]

2. If the police union thinks Republicans have their backs, they truly are "useful idiots".

The current incarnation of the Republican party views ANY form of organized labor to be repugnant and antithetical to their worldview.
One needs look back only 18 months to see evidence of this-
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/31/scott-walker-anti-union-restrictions_n_3682957.html

[mopinko]

3. yeah, but scotty was always careful to cut a better deal w the cops.

[Snarkoleptic]

5. Yep, and he'll use them until they reach peak marginal utility.

After that, he'll discard them like a broken down used vehicle.

[Hutzpa]

4. "useful idiots"

absolutely spot on.

[rjsquirrel]

6. Oh the Repubs have the cops' backs alright

At least in NYC, a cop on the job for less than a decade can be making 90K in overtime, huge benefits, lots of paid time off, plenty of side-work guarding things at OT rates (pushing incomes well north of 100K), and a retirement at high pay in only 20 years, so by the mid-40s for many, meaning time to work a second high paid security job for 10-20 more years and put away, literally, several million dollars. All this for a job that is statistically safer than being a bartender or a logger (look it up), and which requires only a high school education, a very modest IQ, and which basically allows you to break the law with impunity yourself (you will never again pay another speeding ticket, for example, and once in a while you get to choke someone to death without facing charges if you like that sort of thing).

I'd say this particular union has done very well for its members. Yay labor.

[ncjustice80]

7. Yup. Tell me again why they need a union? theyre basically bankers.