And most of them, though not inclined to join the ACLU, did want to do the right thing by legitimately clearing a case. The mayor has also persistently and unjustly given the police as a whole a reputation for brutality by keeping Howard Safir as police commissioner. For all of Safir's parading of statistics of how he disciplines cops, he has failed to instill fear in reckless police that they will be held accountable. His backup just stayed well behind when he got shot. If they were civilians and were found guilty of intimidating a witness, they would go to jail.
Police officers have an even higher duty.
They should be criminally prosecuted or, at the very least, permanently removed from the police force. Obviously there are brutal cops who should be thrown off the force along with the creeps who allowed women to be abused by a primordial mob in and around Central Park on June 11. Back to Giuliani, I underestimated the extent of general public indignation at his immediate attacks on the corpse of Patrick Dorismond. He sure wasn't an altar boy, the mayor said. Well, in truth, he actually had been.