Two cheers for small defeat in NYC left’s – Latest News
Yay: New York City’s pro-crime left has been handed a partial defeat in its limitless assault on the NYPD.
The taxpayer-funded Legal Aid Society, a key participant in the battle of Gotham progressives to show the streets over to thugs and killers, went to courtroom to attempt to pressure the division to show over the pictures and tax-ID numbers for all “active members.”
Such a disclosure, of course, would serve no legit function.
The Legal Aid Society went to courtroom to attempt to pressure the division to show over the pictures and tax-ID numbers for all “active members.” Christopher Sadowski
Why on earth would an group tasked with offering legal providers to poor people need a rolodex of images and tax data for each cop in the Big Apple?
Well . . .
To intimidate these cops.
To flip them into potential targets for criminals, and maybe the varied profession protesters and worse who do the trendy left’s soiled work.
Above all to hinder them from defending the public.
The request was an excessive amount of even for Judge Arthur Engoron (whose primary declare to fame is stage-managing Donald Trump into a business fraud conviction waaaay exterior any regular legal bounds).
Judge Arthur Engoron rightly identified that since Legal Aid isn’t “bound by confidentiality,” this could be like “having a billboard in Times Square posting the photographs, names and tax identification numbers of every police officer.” AP
He rightly identified that since Legal Aid isn’t “bound by confidentiality,” this could be like “having a billboard in Times Square posting the photographs, names and tax identification numbers of every police officer.”
Then again, Engoron left open the chance that he may grant a followup request tailor-made to “exclude material that would compromise police safety.”
Hmm, that would imply: I’m glad to help screw over the cops, guys — simply tone it down a little, wouldja?
And if Engoron fails to oblige, you’ll be able to anticipate Public Advocate Jumaane Williams or mayoral hopeful Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani to suggest a metropolis or state law demanding what Engoron refused.
The left’s assault on policing is inexorable — nevertheless it have to be resisted, on all fronts, or public security will vanish like smoke.
