'DE BLASIO, OUR BACKS HAVE TURNED TO YOU' Cold war between NYPD cops, de Blasio takes to skies

[branford]

134. Are you actually advocating that all white police officers, numbering in the thousands,

need to be summarily terminated from the NYPD solely on the basis that they're caucasian? Please tell me I'm wrong.

If so, the suggestion is ludicrous as a practical matter, political suicide for any major politician to even suggest, and an unequivocal breach of all NYPD collective bargaining agreements. More importantly, it would also be in clear violation of the Constitution and numerous federal, state and city labor and civil rights laws. The slightest attempt to institute such a policy would by killed in its infancy by the courts, and result in huge civil damage awards all the involved officers, all paid for by the taxpayers.

If I understand you suggestion correctly, and again I hope I'm wrong, it is one of the most authoritarian, anti-union, anti-public employee, anti-due process, and downright racist suggestion I've ever seen to combat racial disparities in the justice system, no less on a liberal Democratic forum.

If your issue is with stop-and-frisk, your complaints should be primarily directed to the politicians who dictate the policy, and the general public who supports its results, despite its insidious racial character.

No one should ever be terminated from their employment, no less public employment and without due process, because of the color of their skin.