The NYPD’s Work Stoppage Is Surreal, by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone

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Furious with Mayor de Blasio, New York police are in the middle of a “slowdown.” Cops have decided to make arrests “only when they have to.” Makes you wonder who, exactly, they were arresting before.

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By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone

01 January 15

In an alternate universe, the New York Police might have just solved the national community-policing controversy.

race yourselves for a weird night. There might be a little extra drama when the ball drops in Times Square, thanks to one of the more confusing political protests in recent memory.

On a night when more than a million potentially lawbreaking, probably tipsy revelers will be crowding the most densely-populated city blocks in America, all eyes will be on the city cops stuck with holiday duty.

Why? Because the New York City Police are in the middle of a slowdown. The New York Post is going so far as to call it a “virtual work stoppage.”

Furious at embattled mayor Bill de Blasio, and at what Police Benevolent Association chief…

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