Another Banner Day for the NYPD.

The NYPD is sad. They’re getting to the point of being nothing but a bad joke. I can’t imagine morale is high anywhere in the department. “Accidentally” killing off duty/undercover black cops has to be causing tension. I’m ignoring the racial component and focusing on the incompetence component. Why are so many – meaning more than one – New York City policemen getting shot to death by other New York City policeman? Whatever actually happened, at least one cop in these shootings screwed up. This is the Reader’s Digest version in case you don’t want to follow the link above. A cop coming off duty, so he was in plain clothes, catches a guy breaking into his car, draws his weapon, and gives chase. Other cops in a car in plain clothes see a guy running down the street with a gun chasing someone, so one of the cops in the car stops the someone, and one of the other cops in the car kills the very first cop giving chase. He shot six times and hit the slain officer twice. There is so much f**k up in this scenario from everyone involved that it’s made me angry and ruined my day. Why did the first cop pull his gun to chase the fleeing car burglar? Why are plain clothes cops on patrol? They shot the guy in the back. Why did he fire six times if he wasn’t fired upon? Why did he only hit the guy twice if fired six times? Why can’t cops in New York recognize each other? Cops always talk about how they can’t stop beating a suspect after he’s unconscious or can’t stop shooting until the gun is empty because of the adrenaline. Why aren’t they trained to deal with that rush since they know it’s coming. No one in this incident was aggressive but the police. The car burglar just wanted to get away. Only the cops wanted to whip some ass. Now one guy is dead, and so are his cases, and at least one other cop’s career is over. This is just the professional snafu affecting the officers involved. I’m not going to get into the effects on the families of everyone involved or the Harlem neighborhood. Dumbasses.