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PBA in the NewsSince being elected president of the PBA, Pat Lynch has done thousands of interviews in an effort to promote issues of importance to every police officer in New York City. Listed below you will find a partial chronological listing of stories in which Pat Lynch speaks on your behalf or where the PBA is an important part of the story. In many cases, you can actually see or hear a television or radio story simply by clicking on the station designation. More print and video news stories from previous years can be found listed by year: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, and 2002. See also full indexes of articles, video and audio listed by individual news organization. Stories from 2001 and earlier can only be found under individual news organizations. |
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May 15, 2013 |
A Bronx judge dismissed charges against PO Richard Haste in the shooting of an unarmed perp as reported in the Daily News, New York Post, New York Times and Newsday. See reports broadcast on NY 1 News; CBS 2 News; NBC 4 News; Fox 5 News; ABC 7 News; News 12 the Bronx; WNYC Radio and two separate news conferences taped by the PBA. Pat Lynch supports the judge’s decision, explains the difficult choices police officers face and states that there would have been no indictment in the first place had the grand jury been given proper instructions. The judge left the door open to the Bronx DA to present the case to another grand jury. See also the press release on this topic. |
| May 9, 2013 | Pat Lynch tells News 12 Brooklyn how a defense attorney is spinning a tale to get his client off for participating in a crime that led to PO Peter Figoski's murder. |
May 8, 2013 |
In a press release, NYC PBA defends Port Authority Police following candidate's insult. See news coverage in The Daily News, The New York Times, The Post, and Newsday. The NY Post and Channel 12 News Bronx reports that the judge has concerns about the instructions given by the Bronx DA’s office to the grand jury in the case of PO Richard Haste who shot and killed what he believed was an armed perp. Pat Lynch is joined by Haste’s attorney, Stu London, outside the courtroom where London explains the meaning of the judge’s concerns and the possible outcome. |
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Apr. 25, 2013 |
The Si Advance and Daily News report the $50,000 donation from the New York Police Disaster Relief Fund (a hurricane Sandy relief fund started jointly by the five police unions) to the family of fallen officer Artur Kasprzak who is the only NYPD officer killed by the storm. |
Apr. 23, 2013 |
PBA president and a contingent of PBA board members offer aid and support to fellow officers of the Boston PD during their recovery and hunt for terrorist bombers as reported by the Chief Leader. The visit was also covered in Newsday and Metro. |
Apr. 19, 2013 |
Pat Lynch is interviewed in Boston on On KTHV-TV (CBS affiliate) in Little Rock, Arkansas, explaining why he led a contingent of New York City PBA board members and other officers to the bomb-terrorized city. |
Apr. 18, 2013 |
Daily News reports how New York City lends its Finest aid to Boston cops |
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Mar. 31, 2013 |
PBA president Pat Lynch blasts the department for disciplinary charges when the Bronx DA declines to prosecute an arrest. See the Post story, and Lynch's full statement. |
Mar. 27, 2013 |
Capital NY quotes Pat Lynch and the union’s objection to the use of speed cameras in NYC. |
Mar. 21, 2013 |
This statement was disseminated to the Post for use in their report about objections to the City Council’s proposal to establish an Inspector General for the NYPD. Pat Lynch blasts the City Council for their lack of support and questions why there was no outrage expressed by the council when two MOS had a bounty placed on their heads. |
Mar. 20, 2013 |
Pat Lynch opposes the concept of an Inspector General for the NYPD as reported on CBS 2 News; PIX 11 News; Fox 5 News and WLNY News. See Pat Lynch’s entire CBS 2 News interview with reporter Tony Aiello here. |
Mar. 19, 2013 |
The Chief Leader reports the PBA’s objections to the use of CCRB prosecutors in the NYPD trial room and the budget that plans to further reduce the NYPD headcount by over 800 MOS. In a press release: PBA President reacts to the City Council's inspector general proposal. Bronx News 12 reports the court appearance of PO Richard Haste where PBA president Pat Lynch predicts the officer will be cleared of all charges. |
Mar. 15, 2013 |
Daily News, Wall Street Journal, and PBA press release: PBA president Pat Lynch expresses strong opposition to "speed cameras." |
Mar. 11, 2013 |
The Wall Street Journal reports a shift in handling of common abuse cases to CCRB prosecutors. Pat Lynch calls the move nonsensical, wasteful and unnecessary. To read Lynch's entire reaction, click here. |
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Feb. 28, 2013 |
Dozens of uniformed officers join the family of fallen police officer Peter Figoski and PBA president Pat Lynch at the sentencing of cold-blooded cop-killer Lamont Pride as Judge Allan Marrus sentences Pride to 45 years to life. Stories were reported on: News 12; PIX 11 News: ABC 7 News; New York 1 News; CBS 2 News; NBC 4 News; Fox 5 News; My 9 News; NY Times, Newsday; Daily News; NY Post; Chief-Leader; Huffington Post; Wall Street Journal; Epoch Times; London Daily Mail; 1010 WINS; CBS radio; and WNYC. To view the entire news conference following the sentencing in a PBA recorded video, click here. |
Feb. 26, 2013 |
At the 25th anniversary memorial for PO Edward Byrne, Pat Lynch is quoted in the NY Times, Queens Chronicle and the San Francisco Chronicle crediting the officer’s tragic murder as the catalyst for taking our streets back from the drug dealers. |
Feb. 25, 2013 |
PBA president Pat Lynch joined Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and other union leaders in opposing an $85 billion federal budget cut which will in turn reduce funding to the Zadroga bill. The story was reported on PIX 11 News; NBC 4 News and CBS 2 News. Watch Pat Lynch’s remarks at the news conference by clicking here. President Pat Lynch tells the NY Times that discipline over “keying” radios should be handled at a local level and not turned into a “federal case” and sent to the trial room. Lynch’s entire comments were as follows: “One of the most serious concerns this union has is that the department’s disciplinary practices have become way too harsh and it is beating down morale. Minor rules infractions or problems should be handled on the local level by an immediate supervisor not treated like a federal case and sent to the trial room. There are many ways a local boss can resolve problems without resorting to formal charges and overly harsh penalties. Doing so builds a better working relationship between our members and their supervisors while filing heavy charges builds a wall, causes resentment and distracts from the important work we have to do.” |
Feb. 20, 2013 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in the NY Post’s and the Chief Leader's report about a decision affirming a lower court’s decision regarding line of duty injury medical expenses for retirees. Click here to read Lynch’s entire reaction. |
Feb 13, 2013 |
Pat Lynch reacts with outrage to the jury’s acquittal of Michael Velez, the getaway driver in the death of PO Peter Figoski. Reports appeared in the Daily News, NY Times, Newsday, NY Post, Long Island Press and were aired on New York 1 News, CBS 2 News, Fox 5 news, NBC 4 News; ABC 7 News; News 12 Brooklyn and News Radio 880 and 1010 Wins radio. See also the PBA press release. |
Feb. 12, 2013 |
The following print publications reported the PBA’s and family’s disappointment in the conviction of PO Figoski’s killer on a lesser charge: Daily News, NY Post, Newsday, Wall Street Journal; Huffington Post; Officer.com; London Daily Mail. Pat Lynch wrote his reaction to the horrid verdict in the murder of Peter Figoski both as a press release and as a message on this site. Part was published in the Daily News. |
Feb. 11, 2013 |
In stories reported on New York 1 News; CBS 2 News; Fox 5 News; ABC 7 News; My 9 News; PIX 11 News; NBC 4 News; News 12 Brooklyn; News Radio 880 and 1010 Wins radio; Pat Lynch expresses the disappointment and anger of the PBA and the Figoski family over the failure of a jury to convict Lamont Pride of aggravated murder of a police officer which would have put him in prison for life without possibility of parole. To watch Lynch’s entire statement in a PBA recorded video, click here. See also the press release. |
Feb. 6, 2013 |
As both sides rest in the murder case of PO Peter Figoski, on New York 1 News and News 12 Brooklyn, Pat Lynch disputes the defense’s argument that the murderer, Lamont Pride, intended to shoot and kill the officer to get away. |
Feb. 5, 2013 |
Chief Leader: Pat Lynch expresses concern about staffing levels when proposed budget projects only attrition hires. News 12 Brooklyn reports the day's events at the murder trial of Peter Figoski where the deceased officer's father took ill. Pat Lynch addresses how the shooter. Lamont Pride, is saying anything to save himself. |
Feb. 4, 2013 |
At the murder trial of PO Peter Figoski, News 12 Brooklyn reports the day's testimony and Pat Lynch discusses how difficult it is for family to sit through this kind of evidence. |
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Jan. 29, 2013 |
The Chief Leader reports on a proposal to limit binding arbitration raises to 2% outside NYC. PBA president Pat Lynch pledges to fight any attempt to limit arbitration awards for PBA members noting that binding arbitration sought to level the playing field in the law that prohibited NYC employees from striking. |
Jan. 28, 2013 |
On the first full day of testimony in the murder trial of PO Peter Figoski, Pat Lynch explains on NY 1 and PIX 11 News the difficulties faced by police officers and the family of the deceased during testimony about the murder. |
Jan. 24, 2013 |
Pat Lynch calls for conviction on the highest charges for all of the defendants as the first trial in Peter Figoski’s murder convenes. Reports were aired on NY 1 News; CBS 2 News; NBC 4 News: ABC 7 News; PIX 11 News; WLNY Long Island; and in a column in the Daily News. |
Jan. 15, 2013 |
In an article in the Chief Leader, Pat Lynch addresses the stop and frisk decision, noting that the union would support any training that would help members perform their jobs better “...but reject[s] efforts to hold our members responsible for management’s poorly conceived programs.” In a column in the same paper, its editor notes that Lynch rails against “dangerously low staffing levels” which generated those misguided programs. |
Jan. 10, 2013 |
In a report that appears in the New York Post, PBA president Lynch blames the shortage of staffing for the increase of violence on the neighborhood’s streets. |
Jan. 7, 2013 |
The Chief Leader reports that while parole was denied the killer of PO David Guttenberg, the one dissenting parole commission criticizes the PBA’s “Keep Cop Killers In Jail” website. PBA president Lynch makes no apologies and restates the union’s belief the cop killers should be incarcerated for life while encouraging people to use the PBA’s website to object to parole for cop killers. |
Jan. 4, 2013 |
PBA president Pat Lynch tells PIX 11, ABC news and New York 1 News that there are not enough officers on patrol to fight gun violence as two of three officer shot on the same day are released from the hospital. The release of the officers is also reported on Fox, NBC and My9 news. |
Jan. 2, 2013 |
One of the many PBA’s community outreach efforts is highlighted in a photo published in the Chief Leader. The union distributed toys, gift cards and supplied refreshments to hundreds of families devastated by Hurricane Sandy on Staten Island at the PBSI Annual Holiday Party. In another Chief Leader article, Pat Lynch is quoted in reaction to the denial of parole to one of PO Ed Byrne’s killers. |
More print and video news stories can be found listed by year: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, and 2002. See also full indexes of articles, video and audio listed by individual news organizations. Stories from 2001 and earlier can only be found under the individual news organizations. |
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