Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: The Left's Toll on the NYPD

Episode Date: November 13, 2024

Bill talks about the toll progressive policies are taking on the NYPD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So one of the staples of New York City is the police department. There are 34,167 officers on the job right now. That is the lowest staffing in 34 years. In the year 2000, right before 9-11, there were 40,000 285 NYPDs. And then the far left came in and tried to dismantle the department because of George Floyd and other things. So life for a New York City cop turned much more difficult. And for the last 24 years, we have seen that, the rise of social disorder. And we're going to cover the Daniel Penny trial later on in this broadcast tonight with Arthur Idol.

one of the best defense attorneys in the city. He has got his finger on a pulse of this penny trial. And he's going to make a prediction on it, too. So I hanged up. But anyway, the cops are really up against it now because they have to fill out so many forms. There's no stop and frisk. They're under suspicion.

The New York City Council doesn't like them. I wouldn't say Adams is anti-cop. I don't think that's fair. He's a former police officer, as you know. But the New York City Council despises the New York City Police Department, and that causes all kinds of trouble. So put yourself in a position where it's a hard job anyway. I mean, you're paid okay, but you're not big money. And you go in, and it's dangerous.

And you've got to do so much work. So the University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, along with DeSalle's University, I think that's out in the Midwest, they did a study of the cops in New York. And they found out this, that 23% of active officers want to leave. the NYPD right now. They want to leave. The main reason, what do you think the main reason is? Take a guess. Would it be pay? No. Would it be treatment by the public? No. In fact, that's a big number. 87% of NYPD officers say, no, treatment by the public's not bad. The main reason that 23% of all New York City police officers want to leave the job is overwork. Overwork. And the reason they're overwork is, A, there's not enough police officers in New York City

because they cut back so much. And B, they've got to fill out all those paperwork every time they even have an interaction with a civilian. You've got to go back to the precinct, fill out the paperwork, and if they make an arrest, they're in there all night. And the cops go, you know, I didn't sign up to be a clerk. That's what's happening. So I don't know what the morale is in New York City. Every time I get an opportunity, I talk to the cops, and I know some of them. I know the higher level people, and I know the people on the street. And you get mixed when you speak. Some people say morale is terrible. It goes from precinct to precinct. Some precincts are very poorly run and the cops are miserable. Others are organized and the police officers treated

with dignity and the morale is much higher. So it's hard to generalize there. But I've always been of the opinion that the most important agency in New York City, 8.5 million people plus all the undocumented are the cops. Because that's what stands between us and harm. And it's not a complicated analysis. If you don't have policing, the thugs are going to hurt you. They will. They are.

New York City's social disorder at very high level right now. Very high. I got a daughter living in there, and I worry. every single day about her.