it is not effective for anyone. the city functions well when you have a mayor at the top and the support of law enforcement do. you think that the mayor is undermined this morning? clayton, you bring up a very good point. this is a time, especially now, that the city and this country needs strong leadership. we need someone who is going to work together with law enforcement to remind everybody those good people and those who are going to commit criminal acts, that we are a nation of laws. that we are founded on the premise that we all follow the law. and when we have the mayor as we do here in new york city right now, who is at odds with police. when we need that support and that connection more than ever, it s going to lead to more criminal activity in my opinion. we can t have a fire being lit under people to take action into their up hands. you have a mayor who put up a higher fence at his home and then asks police officers right before christmas to go into terrible neighbor
against a backdrop of real hostility between the new york city police department. they widely acknowledge they are the most confident and professional in this country. and mayor bill de blasio elected a little more than a year ago after michael bloomberg. really, from the perspective of cops, he declared war on the nypd, especially after the eric garner case, describing the police department as racist, living off the legacy of hundreds of years of racism here in new york. and boy, there s no love lost there. and you saw this play out last night in this video. dark video here, but the message is clear. the police officers turning their back on mayor de blasio. you can see he s the tallest one of the bunch as he walks by here on his way to the press conference. there he is walking through. notice all the police officers with their backs turned to the mayor as he makes his way to the podium. that is just the picture of
violence in brooklyn. how do those two scare? you can t reconcile those two decisions of this mayor. it s an inherent inconsistency to say, i m going to build with my limitless funds greater protection from the bad people and i m going to tell the police officers, you go out and you put yourself in further jeopardy. we should be seeing this mayor and the police working together. i m wearing blue today in support of our fallen police officers. and i know so many good people believe that the police need the support of our local and state government. and they are not getting it right now. we definitely need unity with the government and the police officers. we have the mayor call on the relationship with the police officers and al sharpton. to take it to this extreme, to be shouting kill the cops! it is just too much inciting
disfunction right there. the new york city mayor historically, going back to teddy roosevelt who was police commissioner on the city, one of the key jobs of the mayor is to keep order to a city of 8 million people. things can fall apart quickly. they have fallen apart quickly in recent decades. but it could go backward. this is a very big deal. you have to work well with the police department because they are the guys to keep the city safe. and they have cleaned it up so much. i tell you, it s funny you bring up teddy roosevelt, i was thinking of him earlier. he would show up as police commissioner at midnight at random spot where is the police were on patrol. he showed leadership in a city that desperately needed it. it was one of the most corrupt places in the world. we want to show you the extended quote from pat lip ch, head of the police union in new york city.
bratton is going to put up with this? that s a good point. he describes the crimes as a political act. that s really the way the mayor talked about it. people are responding to their oppression by committing crimes. that s the way he sees it. don t you worry there s going to be a lot more crime? well, exactly. as we said in the beginning, this was a bad guy/good guy issue. never a racial issue. the mayor made it into a racial issue and a political act. the mayor made it a mess and two police officers are dead as a result of it. epic failure in leadership of the mayor s office. we ll have mayor giuliani on throughout the show this morning to respond to the crisis now in the city government over the shootings. steve, thank you. you re welcome. we ll continue to follow the top story this morning. and that, of course, is the tragic murder of two new york police officers killed in cold murder yesterday in brooklyn. what happens when outrage over