Just baffling and terrible.
City leadership doesn't have control. Fired cops get reinstated. When criticized or acted against, they retaliate against civilian leadership.
https://twitter.com/MplsWard3/status/1267891878801915904
> Politicians who cross the MPD find slowdowns in their wards. After the first time I cut money from the proposed police budget, I had an uptick in calls taking forever to get a response, and MPD officers telling business owners to call their councilman about why it took so long.
https://gizmodo.com/nypd-union-doxes-mayors-daughter-on-twit...
> A New York City Police Department union known for its controversial attacks against Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted out the personally identifying information of his daughter on Sunday night, including a residential address and her New York State ID number.
https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/new-york-ci...
> Lynch’s most infamous comment, the one that many believe set New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio running scared from the cause of police reform, came after a man shot two NYPD officers in Brooklyn in 2014. The slain officers’ “blood on the hands starts at City Hall in the Office of the Mayor,” Lynch said. The PBA president blamed de Blasio because the mayor acknowledged, in the wake of Garner’s death, that racially disparate policing exists in New York City. Cops subsequently turned their back on de Blasio at the slain officers’ funeral, and the mayor has sided with the cops ever since.
> But to understand why the mayor does what he does, one must understand what he’s up against. On Monday, The City reported that since 2015 the PBA has spent upwards of $1.4 million on lobbying and campaign contributions. In addition to conventional political advocacy for their interests, as City & State noted in a 2019 cover story, “the cops also have the power to undermine a mayor by refusing to do their job.” In December 2014, when Lynch blamed the two officers’ murders on de Blasio, NYPD officers made two-thirds fewer arrests and wrote 94% fewer tickets than they had during the same period the year before. The PBA has also moved to block new policies intended to increase transparency and accountability, for example by suing to prevent the release of body camera footage.
That is what they are doing. The theory is that once they put someone through being arrested, that person will not continue coming to protests the following days.
I’m am certainly not agreeing with the tactic, but that is why they are doing it.
They say to never attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity, but I just really don't know which way to go on this one.
NYPD is a lot of things, but stupid is not one of them. They know all the tricks and are not afraid of the ethical implications of them.
Why do they need to set bail at all? There wasn't even property damage! Just take name and address and issue an appearance ticket for a court date, if one is needed at all.
Meanwhile the Minneapolis killers are out on bail. They committed a violent crime, they are a flight risk, there are concerns about witness intimidation, yet they are out on bail. It's clear that the system is broken.
Source? All I can find is that bail was set at $750k or more each. I haven't seen anything that said that someone paid it.