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2004
March - May |
| May 27 |
Pat Lynch appears with UFT President Randi Weingarten and UFA
President Steve Cassidy on NY 1"s "Inside City Hall" to announce
June 8 rally for fair wages at City Hall June 8. |
| May 25 |
Pat Lynch's photo and quotes accompany an article in The
Chief about a mediator being named in the PBA's PERB arbitration process:
"The city didn't offer a dime's worth of raise that wasn't tied to a quarter's
worth of givebacks during the so-called negotiating sessions." New
York Times article about an NYPD announcement about further declines in crime
refers to the PBA's charge that precinct commanders "'cook the books,' reducing
the severity of crimes on paper to avoid recording them among the seven crimes
reported to the FBI." In Newsday's
account of the issue, PBA spokesman Al O'Leary "said they (the PBA) know
of four precincts where officials have or are suspected of 'cooking the books'
and added, 'we know it goes well beyond that.'" |
| May 24 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a Daily
News article about cops, firefighters and other ground zero workers suing
the city because of serious health problems resulting from their work on "the
pile": These cases are "just the beginning." |
| May 15 |
Al O'Leary is quoted in The
New York Times article about the impasse in negotiations between the PBA and
the city: O'Leary told the Times that the city hasn't "been negotiating in
good faith" and that the talks are "at a stalemate." |
| May 14 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a Newsday
article about PERB declaring an impasse and appointing a mediator in the contract
negotiations between the PBA and the city: "This is the only chance New York
City police officers have to win a fair contract. We want a deserve a fair day's
pay for a dangerous day's work." |
| May 4 |
Al O'Leary is quoted in a Chief article about the mayor's opposition
to the planned demonstration by police and fire unions at this summer's GOP convention:
"We understand why a Republican mayor would not want to see police officers
and firefighters, the heroes of 9/11, in the national spotlight, delivering a
message that a Republican is not taking proper care of them." O'Leary is
also quoted in a Newsday article
about PBA cards: "This union encourages its members not to write a ticket
over a card." |
| May 2 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a New
York Times article about police, fire and teacher's unions rejecting the notion
that the tentative DC-37 settlement sets a pattern for those unions: "I'm
sure that deal solved the problems for DC-37, but it doesn't come close to solving
the problems for we have in the NYPD. We need to start being paid like police
professionals across the country because right now we're having severe problems
recruiting and retaining police officers." |
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April |
| Apr. 29 |
Al O'Leary is quoted in a New
York Times article about the mayor's opposition to the planned demonstration
by police and fire unions at this summer's GOP convention: "We understand
why a Republican mayor is not anxious to see the city's emergency workers in the
national spotlight of a Republican National convention." |
| Apr. 27 |
Pat Lynch's photo and quotes are featured in The Chief's coverage
of the tentative DC-37 contract settlement. Calling the terms of the settlement
that sacrifice the unborn "counterproductive," Lynch added: "We
can't recruit police officers at the salary we offer. We have to increase that
to attract them." |
| Apr. 22 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in The
New York Times, Daily News
and The Sun, reacting to the tentative
contract agreement between the city and DC 37. "I think a lower starting
salary is wrong," Lynch told the Times. "It won't serve to solve the
problem that the New York City Police Department faces: the city can't hire enough
candidates to fill police vacancies. We cannot fill a recruitment class." |
| Apr. 10 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in an article in the Daily
News about a judge's ruling that crack cocaine evidence was inadmissible because
it was obtained by a police officer who saw the suspect slip it into his mouth
and then ordered him to spit it our. "Police officers' job in fighting drugs
is tough enough," Lynch was quoted. "A decision like this certainly
doesn't help." |
| Apr. 8 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in an article in the Daily
News about his letter to UFA President Steve Cassidy expressing gratitude
for the help firefighters gave to two female cops surrounded by an angry mob at
an arrest scene. The Daily News wrote: "Lynch praised the firefighters for
their willingness to 'put their lives at risk' to help the cops, adding: 'We stand
ready to return the favor.'" |
| Apr. 1 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a Newsday
article about an NYPD investigation of the 112 Pct. for allegedly doctoring paperwork
to make crime stats appear lower: "This is one more in a list of precincts
where this is happening. Now that the story has gone public, more and more of
these incidents are being presented to us." NBC-4's "Today in New York"
follows the Newsday story with a standup outside the 112 Pct. in which the reporter
repeats the PBA's claims. |
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March |
| Mar. 24 |
Pat Lynch's press conference on the fudging of crime
statistics continues to attract coverage. Radio and television stations continue
to carry the story, which is also covered in the Times,
Post, News,
Newsday, and Sun.
"We've reached a point where local some NYPD commanders are forced to falsify
stats in order to maintain the appearance of a continued reduction in crime,"
Lynch is quoted in the New York Times. "New York City's police officers have
done a remarkable job of returning our streets to safety," he is quoted in
the New York Post, "but now, with over 5,000 fewer police officers than we
had five years ago, we can no longer hold the line on crime, forcing local commanders
to artificially hold down the crime statistics." Lynch also discusses the
issue with Brian Lehrer on WNYC-radio. In the evening, Lynch appears with SBA
President Ed Mullins on NY 1's "Inside
City Hall," to repeat their call for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to
order a citywide audit of crime statistics and to develop procedures that will
prevent police managers from downgrading or ignoring reported crimes. |
| Mar. 23 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in Newsday,
reacting to the newspaper's story, published the day
before, that questioned the way crimes were reported in the 50 Pct. under
Deputy Inspector Thomas DiRusso. Newsday reports that Lynch "warned Police
Commissioner Ray Kelly that officers feared crime statistics...were being downgraded"
at the 50. The Daily News
also covered the story. Lynch is seen and heard on New
York 1 and Channels 2,
4, 5,
7, 9 and 11,
calling on Kelly (at a PBA news conference) to order a citywide audit of crime
statistics and to develop procedures that will prevent police managers from downgrading
or ignoring reported crimes. The news conference is also reported on the city's
news radio stations. |
| Mar. 16 |
Pat Lynch's photo and quotes accompany a story in The
Chief-Leader about the PBA petitioning the state Public Employment Relations
Board (PERB) to declare an impasse in its contract negotiations with the city.
"They're still below zero," Lynch tells The Chief. "They're looking
for productivity when there's never been a more productive police force in the
history of the city." |
| Mar. 10 |
Pat Lynch appears on UPN-9
News, commenting on a web site that carries names and home addresses of New
York City police officers, including undercovers: "This threatens each and
every police officer that goes out on patrol each and every day and it threatens
our families as well." |
| Mar. 8 |
Pat Lynch appears on the Regional
News Network, urging passage of a bill that would allow police officers to
run for election to local unpaid positions as a way of giving back to their communities. |
| Mar. 3 |
Pat Lynch and his family are featured in a photo spread in the
Irish Echo covering his being named the NYPD Emerald Society's Irishman of the
Year. |
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