When asked whether he had seen such tensions or divide before, Bratton replied, “1970, when I first came into policing, my first 10 years were around this type of tension.”Via Drudge
“… It’s quite apparent, quite obvious, that the targeting of these two police officers was a direct spinoff of this issue of these demonstrations,” the police chief said.
“Many issues of the 1970s are now revisiting us once again. And once again at the forefront of dealing with those will be America’s police forces,” Bratton said at a police promotion ceremony on Friday
He continued, “While the focal point has been on policing, and now growing to the rest of the criminal justice system, the issues are not just about us, or the criminal justice system. They are societal issues, societal issues that were very evident in the 1970s which we thought we addressed but quite clearly, for so many, in this city and this country, have not been addressed.”
“We’re in a change moment,” Bratton said. “The idea is to take out of this crises, find opportunity to move it forward and I think that can happen … We will seize on this tragedy, we’ll seize on all these issues and we’ll move forward.”
Monday, December 22, 2014
"Bratton: Tensions in NYC like 1970s"
“Who would’ve ever thought déjà vu all over again, that we would be back where we were 40-some-odd years ago,” Bratton said in an interview on NBC’s “Today.”
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My first apartment in the city was in a brownstone in Brooklyn, only blocks from where the NY police officers were murdered.
This was in 1976, in the midst of the crack epidemic.
The activist kids didn't live through the wild gang violence of that era and they don't know that the anarchy was triggered by precisely what they are demanding now... selective non-enforcement of the law in black communities.
Everything that goes around comes around.
Who would've thought? What, it's not obvious that when those empowered to govern attack civilization you get barbarism?
Time for Rudy.
I was thinking that last night.
Rudy should run for mayor again.
Rudy will not run. Too much baggage.
Ray Kelly is running. He is making the first steps now by hammering the Sandinista.
Our old pal, Crack, has of course come out in favor of the cop killings.
Remember when Lawnboy was telling us that we didn't understand the poor bastard and that he was really a good guy?
Shouting Thomas said...
My first apartment in the city was in a brownstone in Brooklyn, only blocks from where the NY police officers were murdered.
This was in 1976, in the midst of the crack epidemic.
The activist kids didn't live through the wild gang violence of that era and they don't know that the anarchy was triggered by precisely what they are demanding now... selective non-enforcement of the law in black communities.
Everything that goes around comes around.
You couple that with the ensuing mob wars and it was a horror show.
Everyone talking about Rudy running makes no sense. He won't do it and he's not going to do it. Better for him to be on the sidelines doling out advice without taking the heat. Look, what this requires is someone who can initiate a quiet takeover without making public spectacles of either the cops or those that want to kill cops. It can be done if the right guy is in office. No way with the radical marxist in there now.
Shouting Thomas said...
Our old pal, Crack, has of course come out in favor of the cop killings.
Remember when Lawnboy was telling us that we didn't understand the poor bastard and that he was really a good guy?
I went over there to look at his continuing downward spiral lunacy and just as I personally predicted, he's gone full metal moron. He's not a conservative, he lied when he claimed he was. He wasn't interested in listening to other opinions, he was lying when he said he was. He tried to pawn sympathy from those that felt a certain kinship with his positions, but he was lying about that too. In reality, he's just a delusional black racist that is mentally unstable that like a bunch of other black people have swallowed the conspiracy theories peddled as the hidden truths about slavery. Fuck him cause he's no better than the traitor in the white house.
I ain't even a whitey and I don't believe a fucking word that lunatic says.
When will people learn?
Never, I guess.
This repetition of history doesn't seem like farce, however.
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