Adults in Blue

City Journal ^ | 3 May 2024 | Hannah E Meyers

[Rummyfan]

At Columbia University this week, the NYPD demonstrated again why it’s the best—and taught protesters something about individual accountability and character, too.

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of CompStat, the technology-enabled innovation that turned the gritty New York City Police Department into a modern, transparent, and strategically intelligent public safety force. Every week, commanders from the city’s roughly 100 precincts come in front of top chiefs for a grilling on what’s happening in their command, what they plan to do about it, and if they’re succeeding. It can be terrifying. But the demand for individual accountability—on a podium, exposed under scrutiny—is what created an agency of leaders and the nation’s best police force.

This week, former NYPD captain and current mayor Eric Adams went through a version of this exercise in front of the press as he was grilled on the situation at New York City’s campus protests (especially at Columbia University), how police planned to deal with it, and how it was going. He shared the tactical and strategic planning that went into the arrests of roughly 300 people from Columbia and City College of New York on Tuesday. (An additional 13 from NYU and 43 from the New School were arrested today)....

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It was quite a scene on Tuesday night: NYPD officers entering Columbia’s illegally barricaded Hamilton Hall via an armored vehicle that got them through a second-floor window. Bodycam video illustrates what they encountered inside: physical blockades of furniture, garbage cans, and other objects obstructing their path, which they cut through with electric saws and blow torches. Then they had to deal with the demonstrators, some resisting—“Put it down, you’re gonna get hurt,” a cop told one idiot trying to block him with a makeshift shield—others complying, all amid the steady din of the rioters’ frenzied chanting...

[Rummyfan]

Not enamored of Adams - generally, he’s been worse than DeBlasio - but apparently this was handled well, if belatedly.

[GOPJ]

Good for the NYPD officers ...

[Rummyfan]

Media reporting this week has been inundated with the petulant accounts of arrestees complaining about how “brutal” they found the experience of being held, finally, accountable for their actions. “As a human chain, draped in keffiyehs and shaking like leaves in the autumn wind, we sang with hushed tones,” recounts Columbia student and arrestee Allie Wong. “As [NYPD] approached from multiple directions, we sang with frail and cracking voices.” And then: “We clung tighter to one another as they approached us, and seized us like rag dolls.”

[Rummyfan]

“As a human chain, draped in keffiyehs and shaking like leaves in the autumn wind, we sang with hushed tones,” recounts Columbia student and arrestee Allie Wong.

Clearly, Allie is in ... the wong!

[gibsonguy]

: “We clung tighter to one another as they approached us, and seized us like rag dolls.”

The should have hit em with thevwater canon first.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I think the NYPD should treat the protesters to a spa day. First some brisk hydrotherapy using water cannon, then hickory shampoos for all, followed by pepper-spray facials combined with sidewalk exfoliation. Then a good long session of full-body bootheel shiatsu ought to make the protesters feel like completely different people, and with any luck they’d act like it for a while.

[ridesthemiles]

THERE HAD BETTER BE VERY ACCURATE VIDEOS OF ALL THE DAMAGE ALL THESE IDIOTS ARE DOING-—ALL ACROSS THE USA.

I would not be surprised if there is pushback from insurers.

[Disambiguator]

Wong Way Allie.

[T.B. Yoits]

The New York City police should have left Columbia University suffer from what the administration begged for. Let Columbia hire private security and file insurance claims.

Columbia administration was quite satisfied with what they trained these people to do against Americans but are bothered when it's used against them.