So, you really can make a difference, he said in an interview in his office in Lower Manhattan. The pay increases with time on the job. It's not popular to stand with a cop who's wrongfully accused, but we're doing that - and that goes a long way,' he said. It's never been this bad, Lynch said, referring to recent high-profile cases. There's never been a time when there are so many people demonstrating against police.
Crime is down in astronomical numbers.
You could walk safely in the, neighborhoods. So many times you take the brunt of society's problems. You take the blame for problems that other agencies can t fix. It falls square on the shoulders of cops, he lamented. Once you get the dialogue going, many times you get past the differences.