Posted on 01/11/2015 7:16:18 AM PST by PROCON
It’s a slowdown showdown.
At precincts across the city, top brass are cracking the whip on summons activity and even barring many cops from taking vacation and sick days, The Post has learned.
Throughout the city, precincts are being ordered to hand up to borough commanders “activity sheets” indicating the number of arrests and summonses per shift, sources told The Post.
“Police officers around the city are now threatened with transfers, no vacation time and sick time unless they write summonses,” one union source said.
“This is the same practice that caused officers to be labeled racist and abusers of power.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Collective Bargaining Agreements
Police Department
The coppers have been without a new contract for some time, now working under this agreement.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/olr/html/collective_bargaining/police_contracts.shtml
I was gonna say. They’ll just take sick days.
No. There's no idle time.
Read post 39 and learn.
Can’t do that either. See my post #33. Sorry for the typos, but you’ll get the gist.
Get moving for what? Ask police brass whether there is a ticket quota for police officers and they will tell you absolutely not, and that a quota system might very well be illegal because in theory, ticket writing is about enforcing the law, not about raising revenue. If a police officer doesn't see someone speeding, running a light/stop sign, parking illegally, or making an illegal turn, then the officer has no legal basis to write a ticket.
Because there are no doctors on their side or anything.
Look into the whole disability scam that’s been ongoing with that department for years and years. Perpetrated mainly by dishonest doctors who certify perfectly healthy people as disability candidates.
No. That is the way to generate Big Government revenue at the expense of the cops being able to safely respond to legitimate criminal activity.
And that sums it up just about right.
This has got to be the most ham-handed administration in the country.
Rather than addressing the problems of the police/mayor relationship (real and perceived) and the impact on New York, DeBlahBlah takes the most stupid imperial course of action.
He'll be run out of office before this mess is sorted out.
Bottom line is that the Department can make it very difficult go simply call in sick. They can order you to go to the surgeon. And while the docs take what the cops say into consideration, there is no collusion at this level to get a cop a couple days off. It’s not worth anyone’s career.
It’s impossible for them to get fired.
They’re safer than tenured professors.
I’ve worked around unionzed peeps in NYC. It’s a whole ‘nother world.
This is how badly BeBlahBlah has mismanaged this situation:
Many Freepers, myself included, seem to be on the side of the UNIONS in this instance.
I cannot remember the last time I sided with a labor union on anything.
This is a quota, illegal under law in most states and I’m pretty sure New York is one of them. Any summons written under a quota will be dismissed with prejudice by the courts.
What DeBlahBlah and Bratton are demanding is that the cops turn up the heat on whitey. Whites are the only safe target. Expect more arrests for double parking and jay walking and fewer for weapons and drugs.
The politicos want “their” money because money = power. I hope the NYPD rank and file stick to their guns against their politically a pointed bosses.
As for firing cops, I know it's not easy. But all aspects of discipline and termination were collectively bargained so both the city and the unions are to blame. If a "bad" cop can't be fired, they are dealt with in other ways.
The group dynamics are about 99.5% against the city.
IIRC the city caved for the teachers and offered the coppers spit.
Same as in the military if you hear the words ‘this is a direct and lawful order’; all credibility is lost.
The reply in RVN was ‘what you going to do, send me to Viet Nam?
Rumor had it life was better/safer in the brig/stockade than out in the bush.
***Perfect. Of all the options they could have turned to to resolve the impasse they chose the one most likely to make things worse.*****
Exactly
Look up ‘rubber room’ for what happens to ‘should have been fired’ teachers in NYC.
Throw me into that briar patch!
They city will lose this. It will cost them way more than a few tickets if the union decides to dig in its heels.
Unions in the private sector and be public sector are an anathema to free markets and public safety.
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