Police Sergeants’ Union Warns Against Democratic Convention in Brooklyn

[BlueStateSaint]

Okay, it's a New York Times article, but if it's in the Times, it probably should mean something to the Democrats.

Police Sergeants’ Union Warns Against Democratic Convention in Brooklyn

By MATT FLEGENHEIMER and J. DAVID GOODMAN  AUG. 26, 2014

A union of New York City police sergeants warned the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday against holding its 2016 convention in Brooklyn, issuing an open letter that doubled as a broadside against a mayoral administration with which some officers have grown increasingly frustrated.

In the letter, addressed to the group Mayor Bill de Blasio wooed during its visit to New York two weeks ago, the president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, Edward D. Mullins, said the city was going “backward to the bad old days of high crime, danger-infested public spaces and families that walk our streets worried for their safety.”

He presented a city overrun with “squeegee people” and other panhandlers, with shootings on the rise and morale among police officers flagging.

“The D.N.C. should choose another venue,” said the letter, which appeared as an advertisement in The New York Times and The New York Post. “Mayor de Blasio,” it continued, “has not earned the right to play host to such an important event.”

While shootings are up slightly, according to the de Blasio administration, the homicide rate has fallen 12.3 percent this year after a 20 percent decline in 2013, when there were 335 murders, punctuating a steep drop under the former mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg. The administration also noted that overall crime had fallen 3.6 percent this year.

Leave it to the Times to try to spin it positively.  My take is this:  If the 'squeegee pests' are back, that means that it's safe to do a lot of other illegal things.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/nyregion/in-jab-at-de-blasio-sergeants-union-warns-against-a-convention-in-brooklyn.html?_r=0