
In 1993, Rudy Giuliani defeated incumbent Mayor David Dinkins on a tough crime-fighting and welfare-to-work platform. The life-long New York intellectual Norman Podhoretz, reflecting on this moment in 1999, wrote that “neither I nor anyone else ever dreamed that the new mayor — or any other person occupying that office — would be able to turn the city around, let alone that he would do so almost overnight. How wrong we were!”
by Spyridon Mitsotakis9 Mar 2015, 7:22 PM PST0

Tuesday on NewsMax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” the president of the NYPD’s Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, Pat Lynch, said Mayor Bill de Blasio’s is creating an atmosphere that is putting NYPD officers in danger “because he keeps making statements against
by Pam Key6 Jan 2015, 6:48 PM PST0

On December 29–while NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was working to set up a meeting with police union leaders to ubiquitously make amends–his aides were placing phone calls to New York City Council members asking them “to blast Patrolman’s Benevolent Association head Pat Lynch and officer officers” over the open disdain demonstrated toward de Blasio after the executions of NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
by AWR Hawkins31 Dec 2014, 7:06 AM PST0

New York Police Department arrests were down “66 percent” during the week of Christmas, compared to arrests for the same time period in 2013. This drop comes as “officers feel betrayed by [Mayor Bill de Blasio] and fear for their safety.”
by AWR Hawkins30 Dec 2014, 8:29 AM PST0