If our police forces were to disobey orders or publicly disrespect a prominent elected official, one would hope they would do so for good cause. The fact that they would behave this way, to essentially exercise their right to brutalize and slaughter minorities in the streets
without question or comment that is not slavishly party-line, is an act of intimidation not only of the elected official in question (or others like him who may ever feel inclined to express public misgivings about horrific human rights abuses on the part of those expected to “serve and protect”) but the entire general public for whom they are purportedly meant to serve.

With the ever-increasing militarization of the police in North America, these people need to be put in check. A mob mentality combined with the absolute right to use lethal force and penchant for abuse of power is very dangerous, and this egregious act of defiance on their part is a harbinger of worse to come.

There was an episode of Da Vinci’s City Hall (previously known as Da Vinci’s Inquest – great show) which this situation brings to mind for me. Usually that show was loosely based on true events that happened in Canada, I wonder if something similar has happened here in the past. If it has, I can’t imagine it would be on the scale of the shameful display we are seeing in NYC.

The Times has issued, in my opinion, another effective condemnation of police reaction to Mayor DeBlasio’s policies and rhetoric. Now, apparently, there appears to be a fair suggestion that police — in protest — are refusing to enforce low-level offenses. Law enforcement refusing to enforce the law after its Mayor calls out unlawful policies and practices …. Unfathomable.