We have many more honorable police officers than we do corrupt ones.
We need police. We greatly appreciate their service to the community. We must work productively and cooperatively to determine how best to proceed on reforms.
If New York mayor Bill de Blasio had only begun the dialogue with something like the above—assertions I consider wholly uncontroversial, by the way—he wouldn’t be doing such frantic damage control with the NYPD.
The excessive deference to savage, uncivilized statements and behavior must stop.
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