By Mara Gay
For nearly four years, the country’s largest police union has looked on at the New York City Council and often fumed.
Mayor
Bill de Blasio’s
rocky relationship
with the police has drawn more attention. But in the eyes of the
Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the City Council has been a problem
as well, with lawmakers taking up several high-profile bills in recent
years scrutinizing officers and the work they do.
Now, with most
of the 51 lawmakers up for re-election this year, the police union is
seizing on a chance to do something about it.
The
Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, or PBA, plans to play big in this
year’s City Council races, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on
campaign ads in the hopes of reshaping the council to make it friendlier
to its 24,000 police officers and some 25,000 retirees.
“We need
to have a city council that will speak up, defend New York City police
officers, and dig into the issues so that they understand them,” PBA
President
Patrick Lynch
said in a phone interview. “We also need them to stand up to the
[de Blasio] administration and speak up on behalf of police officers as
allies.”
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Source: The Wall Street Journal (via The Empire Report)
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