General Zod wrote:Elheru Aran wrote:"Watch out for guy looking like this, who just shot his ex, may be likely to target policemen"? Yeah, that might have been helpful. Anything that will shift the odds cannot hurt.
Unless they were sending over a specific mugshot taken in the last 24 hours, I'm skeptical that it would have made a huge impact.
Still, couldn't hurt.
Might have helped. A human life is valuable; a thing that increases some human's chance of surviving a deadly encounter by 1% is worthwhile in its own right.
Agent Fisher wrote:They're angry at the mayor for his statements that he and his wife had to train their bi-racial son to be extra careful when dealing with the police, which the police union took as De Blasio saying that people who weren't white were in extra danger from police. So the union saw it as the mayor throwing them under the bus to appease protestors of the Brown and Garner grand jury decisions. And like I said earlier in the thread, with a small but vocal group of protestors calling for dead cops, along with officers getting attacked while on skirmish lines, the union is feeling like the mayor sanctioned those actions by not vocally condemning the protestors who did so harshly.
I think you have a point. That said, if de Blasio is saying nonwhites are in extra danger from police... frankly, he's telling the truth, and if the NYPD has a problem with that then they need to be making some clear and visible efforts to repair the situation.
Or we could just go with Flaggs reasoning that the police union is just another front for the KKK.
I think he's being uncharitable to the point of being factually incorrect, but that there is a core of truth to what you say.
