Thursday  4 June 2015 / Hour 1, Block B:  Edward W Hayes, criminal defense attorney par excellence, in re:   439 shootings; murders up 17..7% from last year same time; de Blasio blames this on gang violence. " Nothing like what we had 15 years ago; we have new strategies . . . incl gang intervention." Eddie: the essence of civil rights is physical personal safety.  MK: Some Black lives seem to matter more than others to this mayor.  JB: I got mugged twice on Manhattan's Upper West Side.  EH: It went down because Giuliani . . .  JB: The only way we can offload de Blasio is by sending him to Albany [the state capital; ergo, as governor]. 
 
From the New Yorker:    Not long after the police officers turned their backs on de Blasio at Officer Ramos’s funeral, I met with a black transit officer who has been on the force for seven years. One of the first things he asked me was whether or not I wanted to hear the truth about his experience. He did not feel comfortable discussing his experiences without anonymity, fearing that telling the truth could result in on-the-job reprisals and jeopardize his chances for promotions. (Numerous other policemen I spoke with either declined to comment or asked that their remarks be kept off the record. Their fears are not unfounded: an N.Y.P.D. officer named Adhyl Polanco was suspended, and later reassigned, after he complained internally about stop-and-frisk.) And so the officer, comfortable with the terms of anonymity, began to tell me his story:
“Born and raised in Brooklyn. I had a real tough childhood. Caribbean descent. My parents came here chasing the American Dream like anyone else,” . . .  [more]