Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Hectoring the Police

Episode Date: July 3, 2024

Bill talks about the New York City Council's animosity toward the police. Originally only available in the New York City area, Bill’s Empire State O’Reilly commentary addresses local New York issues, but those issues have implications, impact the country, and mirror problems in other states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So yesterday, Monday, the New York City Police Department was given a burden. The City Council of New York is anti-police. I don't think Mayor Eric Adams is. He used to be a cop. I don't think he's got it out for the cops, but he's a politician. And his base is liberal. So he goes along. So, the council and the city have passed to how many stops act.

That's the name of it. And it basically forces uniform cops to document encounters that have to deal with law enforcement. Not when they go into a restaurant, order coffee, stuff like that, saying hello to somebody on the street. No. But if there is any encounter with another human being that has any context in law enforcement, then the police have to document that. What does that mean? Well, after their shift, they have to go back to the precinct and fill out forms about who they talk to and why, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Now, this was done by the city council to Hector H.E.C. C-T-O-R, the cops, to force them to explain how they do their job. And the rationale was, well, the cops stop more people of color. Of course they do. More people of color commit crimes in New York City. More people of color are crime victims. So, of course they will. But the city council sees this as racial bias.

And again, they hate the police. So there are about 36,000 officers on the street, about 19,000 civilian employees backing them up. That's an army. And now the blizzard of paper or computer stuff is going to be impossible to maintain. So here's what's really going to happen. Most cops aren't going to file these reports. They're going to say, ah, no, there was nothing going on, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But the politicians will try to catch them in a so-called dereliction of duty.

I don't think it's going to be easy to do that because police are pretty savvy. They know somebody comes up and starts asking them questions and things like that. The cops are going to get it right away. But this is all unnecessary. We have a violent city. Any city in the world with 8.5 million people is going to be violent because 10% of the human population is violent. So that's 800,000 violent people running around. You're going to have it.

And the cops don't need this. They need to protect people from violence. But again, when you get into the far-left precincts, all reason leaves the building. These are hard, core ideologues on the New York City Council. They don't care about police protection. They see the police as the enemy. And they think they're protecting people when they're doing just the opposite. it. So anyway, what I do, and this is absolutely true, when I go into the city and I see a police

officer, I walk over to the officer, many times the cop knows who I am, but some of the younger ones don't. And I say, look, thank you for your service. Thank you for doing the job. That's all. And they really appreciate it. And I hope you do that too. Just go out of your way to say a kind word to the cops. You might buy them a cup of coffee or something, even though there's probably regulations about that. I don't even know. And finally, my grandfather, as some of you know,

was an NYPD. I have its sheet. The police department was kind enough to give it to me in the 1920s, 30s. And I really have a lot of respect for police officers, is not only in New York City, but all over the country. They could make most of them a lot more money doing something else.