NYPD's 'Pantaleo Effect': fewer arrests made

If you fire cops for doing their job you're going to get cops having second thoughts about doing their job. You might even get them to leave the force altogether and it's going to be interesting to see how many new recruits want to work at a dangerous job where they are rendered significantly impotent.

The number of arrests and criminal summonses handled by New York's city cops plummeted last week compared to the same period last year — and law enforcement sources attribute the phenomenon to the “Pantaleo Effect.’’

Officer Daniel Pantaleo was fired by NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill on August 19th over the death of Eric Garner, a 395 pound asthmatic who resisted arrest and was taken down with an illegal choke hold that Pantaleo used which lasted about 15 seconds and was determined not to be the cause of Garner's death. The union argued that the cop was simply doing his job during an arrest.

Police Benevolent Association chief Patrick Lynch told his members to "proceed with the utmost caution" answering calls on duty. New statistics show they listened to him.

The number of arrests fell 27% between August 19, the day of Pantaleo's firing, and August 25, compared to the same period last year--with 3,508 this year compared to 4,827 last year.

Criminal summonses issued also fell nearly 29% over the same period, going from 1,655 to 1,181, the figures show.

The New York Post reports that although there isn't an organized slowdown, the cops on the street clearly feel their leaders don't have their backs, so why should they put their lives on the line after what happened to their colleague?

“Who wants to be the last cop standing?” a Manhattan cop said. “If someone’s in trouble and needs help or if a cop’s in trouble, obviously, you do what you have to do as a police officer. But if it’s discretionary, why put yourself in harm’s way?’’

An NYPD supervisor in Brooklyn said, “Of course it has to do with what happened to Pantaleo — cops are frustrated, upset. They feel they don’t have the backing of downtown, Police Headquarters and City Hall, which means Bill de Blasio continues to be more concerned about his political aspirations than the city of which he is mayor.

“It all goes back to cops feeling like they’re out on the street alone.’’

And it also goes back to the idea that the public no longer supports the one group of people who do all they can to serve and protect. It all started with the Ferguson Effect when Michael Brown attacked a police officer and was shot and killed and the public blamed the cop in spite of witnesses and physical evidence.

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Leftist Plan to Disrupt New Years

They stand behind their cause. Their cause is to protest the authority of the police throughout the United States. The website Stop Mass Incarcerations is calling upon the sheep to interrupt New Years Eve 2015 celebrations because if they can't have fun in life, neither should you. 

These commies say they don't want the celebrations "to go down because business as usual in Amerikkka includes wanton police murder of Black people."  If you are interested you can see the video here

The headline reads: "Rock In the New Year with Resistance to Police Murder! No New Year Under This Old System! We Can't Breathe! A Call From Carl Dix" I believe it was Elmore Leonard who said in his Ten Rules: "Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose."

The Stop Mass Incarcerations Marxists used three in their first few sentences. 

But isn't it funny how these cretins use the KKK in Amerikkka when that organization was started by Dixiecrats or Southern Democrats. But as I've said before, facts only matter to leftists when they help make their point, which is rarely.

They state on the site: "The refusal of grand juries in Ferguson and Staten Island to indict the cops who murdered Michael Brown and Eric Garner made this clear."

Fact: the grand jury that was impaneled in May 2014, the shooting happened on August 9th. Those selected for this case was consisted of three blacks--one man, two women; and nine whites--six men and three women. This corresponded roughly to the "racial makeup" of St. Louis County.

To claim "the refusal of grand juries in Ferguson and Staten Island," implies that the evidence for indictment was clearly there and should have been enough to indict. But in the Ferguson case, it was clear that Michael Brown was attacking Officer Darren Wilson, not the other way around.

In the case on Staten Island, Eric Garner did not die of a choke hold. He died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital--choke holds that are lethal, are lethal immediately. Besides, Garner was obese, diabetic and had asthmatic problems. 

The cops in both cases did not "murder" either person. Both Brown and Garner resisted arrest and Brown even attacked the Officer Wilson, going for his weapon and causing the officer to react correctly by responding in kind. There was no "wanton murder" and our society is safer because of the men and women in our police departments.

But some of these protesters want anarchy. Some want dead cops, like the marchers in Brooklyn. None of them want to hear facts because it isn't about facts for them. It's about their agenda--Marxism, anarchy, and hating America.

Notice how they never seem to leave it though?


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