NYPD Slowdown vs. Prosecutorial Discretion

While one of the reasons for NYPD frustration may be the Mayor's perceived lack of support, the primary reason for the decline in enforcement is tied to unionization of civil servants.


"Work slow downs" and "teacher flu" absenteeism are the direct result of and (wrongly) accepted tactics of union efforts to persuade public employers to accede to their demands. You get what you pay for.



What I find most interesting from the NYT editorial, though, is the admonishment:
"The police are sworn public servants, and refusing to work violates their oath to serve and protect." 



This seems both hypocritical and galling when the same editorial board has nothing but praise for the


Obama administration's refusal to enforce immigration laws. What of the presidential oath to "faithfully enforce" the laws of the land. I do not recall an exception for immigration, national origin or "prosecutorial discretion" anywhere in the Constitution, or in the oath Obama took at his inaugurations.
 
If "discretion" is a valid excuse for non-enforcement, it would seem more properly exercised in the cases of public urination than those of detention and deportation of criminal illegal aliens



What hypocrites!.