Bill deBlasio vows better police customer service
Oct 3, 2021 19:42:56 GMT -5
Post by maybetoday on Oct 3, 2021 19:42:56 GMT -5
As crimes soars in NYC, Bill deBlasio vows better police customer service
October 3, 2021
By Monica Showalter
New York City is a rude sort of place, and most locals learn early on to just ignore it and just keep going.
Which is why, as crime surges, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's new plan to make policing all about customer service is just a little ... strange.
According to the New York Post:
During his daily City Hall news conference, de Blasio ignored the pressing issue of public safety and called his “revolutionary” initiative for the NYPD “a paradigm shift,” saying, “Customer service has to be what the NYPD is about.”
He said part of the push would involve putting a “community guide” in each of the city’s police stations to greet visitors at the door.
The mayor, whose term ends this year, said he was motivated by years of complaints about cops who are sometimes “gruff and dismissive.”
Well, d'oh. New York City is full of "gruff and dismissive" people, including bus drivers, subway operators (some of whom will stand there and ignore you while you are being assaulted), shop clerks, airport personnel, hotel staff, postal clerks, garbage collectors, city permit bureaucrats, basically anyone in government, or anyone in a union who can't be fired, plus others. It exists for many different reasons, some understandable, some not.
To be sure, it's not everyone. But to encounter rudeness in New York is not utterly unusual.
But somehow, de Blasio thinks the general rudeness problem of New York resides solely with the cops, so he's putting out memos, plus booklets to ensure that the public knows their rights so they can sue. Sound like a morale builder?.
More to the point, the New York Post points out that it's a pretty absurd thing to be bringing up, given that crime is surging in New York.
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October 3, 2021
By Monica Showalter
New York City is a rude sort of place, and most locals learn early on to just ignore it and just keep going.
Which is why, as crime surges, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's new plan to make policing all about customer service is just a little ... strange.
According to the New York Post:
During his daily City Hall news conference, de Blasio ignored the pressing issue of public safety and called his “revolutionary” initiative for the NYPD “a paradigm shift,” saying, “Customer service has to be what the NYPD is about.”
He said part of the push would involve putting a “community guide” in each of the city’s police stations to greet visitors at the door.
The mayor, whose term ends this year, said he was motivated by years of complaints about cops who are sometimes “gruff and dismissive.”
Well, d'oh. New York City is full of "gruff and dismissive" people, including bus drivers, subway operators (some of whom will stand there and ignore you while you are being assaulted), shop clerks, airport personnel, hotel staff, postal clerks, garbage collectors, city permit bureaucrats, basically anyone in government, or anyone in a union who can't be fired, plus others. It exists for many different reasons, some understandable, some not.
To be sure, it's not everyone. But to encounter rudeness in New York is not utterly unusual.
But somehow, de Blasio thinks the general rudeness problem of New York resides solely with the cops, so he's putting out memos, plus booklets to ensure that the public knows their rights so they can sue. Sound like a morale builder?.
More to the point, the New York Post points out that it's a pretty absurd thing to be bringing up, given that crime is surging in New York.
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