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Blue Bloods


Blue Bloods still is one of my favorite TV shows although I do not watch TV much anymore. For those of you not familiar with this TV series, it is about a family in New York City – more precisely a family that is a NYC Police family. The grandfather had been the Police Commissioner for many years before he retired. The father is the present NYC Police Commissioner.and the two sons are also in the NYC police department. Danny, the oldest, is a detective, while the younger son is a garden variety, on the street every day, police officer. The main question these days about Blue Bloods is whether or not it will continue.

In the show the Police Commissioner father (Tom Sellick) has an on-again, off-again relationship with the Mayor, who is not deBlasio. If deBlasio were the mayor in Blue Bloods, the relationship would only be “off,” as the present NYC mayor does not get along with the police. He does not hesitate to disrespect the police any chance he gets, and is presently on a “defund the police” kick. This inane, and at the same time, insane strategy is one of the reasons that NYC is in trouble, and this problem can only get worse.

The upcoming NYC budget has cut a $billion for police in the city by cutting out future police recruiting classes. However, the way things are beginning to look, this may be an overshoot because NYC Police are now retiring in record numbers.

From Townhall:

The astonishing rush for the door came as 503 cops filed for retirement between May 25 — the day George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis, sparking anti-cop protests around the country — and July 3. That number represents a 75-percent increase over the 287 who filed for retirement during the same time last year, the NYPD said.

Also, there’s another class hitting their 20th year in September, so that will be another group leaving, noting that cops often retire once they hit the minimum requirement for pension vestment.

“You have to be crazy to stay on a job where you are losing money (loss of overtime pay), abused by the people you are trying to protect and not appreciated by the politicians,” the source said.

All of these police leaving is occurring at a time when violent crime in NYC is spiking. Shootings in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s New York City were three times higher last week than they were during the same week in 2019.

The New York Post reports there were 74 shootings with 101 victims between June 29, 2020 and July 5, 2020, versus “26 shootings with 33 victims during that time last year.

Now back to Blue Bloods . . . an unsubstantiated rumor is that this show may now be cancelled, as it can no longer get any actors to put on the uniform and play the NYC Police, “You cannot pay me enough to be a NYC cop . . . even in pretend!

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