IT IS NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT FOR NY COPS TO SHOOT ANYONE

Precinct commanders called on carpet for increase in shootings by cops

Political correctness at its worst. If you’re a cop in NY or in some other cities, don’t shoot anyone, especially not minorities. Everything at the top of a law enforcement agency is driven by politics. Many policy decisions and reactions to outside criticism are political. It’s all about the brass protecting or furthering their careers.

NYPD’ brass apparently blames cops for shooting people, not the criminals being shot. Evidently it never crosses their minds that cops don’t get up in the morning, or whenever, and ask as they look in the bathroom mirror, “I wonder how many people I can shoot today?” Does the brass, safely tucked in lofty insular offices, expect cops to turn the other cheek when they perceive their lives to be in imminent danger? If the NYPD brass can’t stand the political heat, they should get out of the kitchen, i.e., retire.

In Los Angeles there has also been an increase in shootings by police. In that city at least, the brass is not calling for any scalps. Chief Charlie Beck told the LA Police Commission that the increase in shootings resulted from an increase in assaults on his officers. I suspect the same holds true in NY. The mean streets are getting meaner with more scumbags attempting to kill cops.

In LA all police shootings are investigated by an LAPD shooting team to see if each shooting was righteous or not. I’m sure it’s the same in NY. Officers who are found not to have been righteous are severely disciplined and often terminated. Since the vast majority of shootings are righteous, the brass should answer any criticism, not cave into political pressure like NYPD’s brass does.

NYPD BRASS ‘DEMAND EXPLANATION’ FOR SHOOTING RISE
A law enforcement source said ‘commanding officer will get yelled at’ at an upcoming CompStat meeting

By Larry Celona , Doug Auer and Jamie Schram

The New York Post
July 6, 2012

NEW YORK — NYPD brass have demanded that three commanding officers explain at next week's CompStat meetings why shootings are on the rise in their precincts, The Post has learned.

The 46th, 67th and 103rd precincts — University Heights in The Bronx, East Flatbush in Brooklyn and Jamaica in Queens, respectively — have some of the most significant spikes in violent crimes in the city, a source said.

The "commanding officers will get yelled at," a law-enforcement source with knowledge of the meetings said yesterday.

The CompStat summonses come a day after The Post reported that the number of people shot last week increased 46 percent when compared to the same period last year — which some police sources blamed on the heat wave and fewer stop-and-frisks.

"If you have a large uptick in shootings during the last 28 days or for the past year, then you get called down. They're going to want to know why that is and what you're doing about it," a law-enforcement source said.

"If you don't come prepared, then it's like a firing squad. If you don't have the answers, then it gets real tense. They jump on that."

At the 46th Precinct, the number of shooting victims has reached 30 so far this year, compared with last year's 14. Shooting incidents have more than doubled to 25 in 2012, in contrast with 12 in 2011.

In the last 28 days, the University Heights precinct has seen six shooting incidents leaving eight victims — compared to only two victims for the same period last year.

And in Brooklyn, cops at the 67th Precinct have reported three shooting incidents in the last week, compared to none for the same period last year.

NYPD brass "are concerned about the increase in shootings, and they're afraid, with the summer just starting, that it could get out of hand if they don't do something now," a source said of the decision to call in the commanding officers.

With numbers on the rise, more commanding officers can expect to be called in to explain any violent spikes, a source said.

"That happens to all precincts," the source said. "Those three might have had spikes in violent crime during a 28-day period or more, but it is normal."