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| 2004
August - December |
| Dec. 25 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in the New York Post and Daily News, responding to comments by Mayor Bloomberg claiming that one of his biggest disappointments of 2004 was failing to negotiate a new contract with the PBA. The PBA "is always ready to negotiate," Lynch told the Post. "The problem is the mayor's style of negotiation is 'take it or leave it.'" |
| Dec. 23 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a Daily News article reporting that the NYPD is being pursued by the owners of a pit bull shot by police officers on a housing project rooftop: "Police officers have an obligation to protect the public from vicious animals." |
| Dec. 22 |
Pat Lynch appears live on NY 1's "Inside City Hall." He defends former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik as a strong leader who was good for cops, criticizes Mayor Bloomberg for for trying to influence the arbitration panel by hinting that police layoffs could result from the PERB awarding police officers more than the pattern, and makes a strong case for why police officers deserve a decent raise. |
| Dec. 21 |
Pat Lynch's "scare tactic" accusation against Mayor Bloomberg is quoted in an editorial in The Chief-Leader. |
| Dec. 19 |
NY 1 quotes from Pat Lynch's statement of Dec. 18. |
| Dec. 18 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in the New York Times, New York Post and Daily News in articles about the mayor threatening to cut NYPD manpower if PERB awards the PBA more that the pattern: "The mayor is trying to use scare tactics to improperly influence the arbitration panel. All we want is a fair hearing before that panel and fair compensation for police officers to fix both their salary problem and the city's recruitment and retention problem." |
| Dec. 7 |
Pat Lynch's quotes and photo accompany a story in the Chief-Leader about President Bush's appointment of Bernard Kerik as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security: "He was a strong leader when he was in charge of the New York City Police Department. He understands the seriousness of terrorism. He's a hands-on leader. I think it's a great choice for the country as well as New York City." Lynch also appears in a photo in The Chief-Leader taken at the funeral of P.O. William Rivera, who died Nov. 27 of a blood clot from injuries suffered while chasing a suspect earlier this year. |
November |
| Nov. 30 |
Pat Lynch's photo and quotes accompany an article in the Chief-Leader about the Bush administrations decision to reduce drastically the funding for a grant program to put more officers on the streets: "New York City needs to take advantage of every federal dollar for police it can. We have 5,000 fewer police officers on our streets today than in 1999. With New York City as the nation's number one target for terrorism, the NYPD should be growing, not shrinking." |
| Nov. 29 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in an article in the New York Sun about a movement to allow immigrants with green cards to become New York City police officers: "This move to allow non-citizens to become police officers is just another attempt to broaden the pool of candidates for the NYPD because of the serious recruitment and retention problems that exist because of non-competitive compensation." |
| Nov. 23 |
Pat Lynch's photo and quotes are included in the Chief-Leader's coverage of the opening of the PBA PERB hearings. "In an interview ... Mr. Lynch siad the union had presented evidence ... that NYPD personnel officials adjusted their hiring goals to match their candidate pool after experiencing a shortfall of qualified candidates. 'They project what they want to hire, then they don't meet that number. When they realize they're not going to meet the numbers they reduce their expectations,' said Mr. Lynch, who blamed low officer salaries for the recruiting problems." |
| Nov. 18 |
The PBA press conference on Judge Laura Blackburne is reported in the Daily News and New York Post. "She obviously has a prejudice against New York City police officers and all law enforcement, and we cannot allow that to continue," the News quotes Lynch. |
| Nov. 17 |
The Daily News, Newsday, New York Post, 1010WINS, New York Law Journal and New York 1 quote Pat Lynch in their articles about the Appellate Division's unanimous decision to reverse Judge Laura Blackburne's Oct. 16, 2002, dismissal of attempted murder charges against William Hodges in the 1999 shooting of Police Officer David Gonzalez: "We are gratified by the judges' recognition of the serious miscarriage of justice that almost occurred in this case. The PBA has been working with David Gonzalez for more than two years now to see that justice was done. And we won't rest until this would-be cop-killer gets all that he deserves." New York 1 and Channel 4 and Channel 7 air soundbites of Lynch, Gonzalez and others in their coverage of a PBA press conference called to demand Blackburne's removal from the bench. |
| Nov. 12 |
The New York Sun reports that most New York City police officers who have donated to political campaigns favor Fernando Ferrer for mayor: "The president of the PBA, Patrick Lynch, said yesterday through a spokesman that police officers often do not have enough money to make political contributions. "They barely get by on what the city pays them," he said. 'Most of them understand and are supportive of the organization and allow the PBA to speak on their behalf politically.'" |
| Nov. 11 |
PBA General Counsel Mike Murray is quoted in a story in The Chief-Leader about the PBA's lawsuit charging that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is violating city regulations by punishing officers under a "phantom" disciplinary process known as the Performance monitoring Program. |
| Nov. 4 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a Daily News article about the attempted murder conviction of an ex-con who shot a police officer whose life was saved by his bullet-proof vest: "Police officers put their live son the line every day to protect the citizens of New York, and it is gratifying when the favor is returned in a jury verdict like this." |
| Nov. 2 |
The PBA runs a full-page ad in the Chief-Leader showing police officers on a precarious cable on the Brooklyn Bridge rescuing an attempted jumper, under the headline: "After a day like this our police officers shouldn't have to work a second job." |
October |
| Oct. 27 |
The PBA runs a full-page ad in the Daily News showing police officers on the Brooklyn Bridge rescuing an attempted jumper, under the headline: "After a day like this our police officers shouldn't have to work a second job." |
| Oct. 25 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in an article in The Sun comparing Mayor Giuliani's and Mayor Bloomberg's negotiating styles: "Bloomberg is Giuliani with a smile." |
| Oct. 23 |
The New York Post and Daily News quote Pat Lynch on Mayor Bloomberg's remarks on his weekly radio appearance that the PBA is unwilling to negotiate. The Daily News: "'What the mayor is trying to do is to divert attention from the fact that he has not once come to the bargaining table," PBA President Patrick Lynch said. Lynch accused the mayor's deputies of failing to bargain in good faith, 'Four percent over three years is an absolute insult to our members,' he said." |
| Oct. 22 |
Pat Lynch is seen and heard on NY 1, responding to Mayor Bloomberg's remarks on the radio that the PBA is unwilling to negotiate. Standing in front of an enlargement of the PBA newspaper ad depicting Bloomberg with a Pinocchio nose under the headline, "Bloomberg's Lies," Lynch tells NY 1: "The mayor does not want to come to the table. He's taking it personally. He shouldn't be. Come to the table. The PBA is ready, willing and able to go to that table and negotiate with them. Realistically negotiate, to fix the problems for our members, giving them a realistic wage, and, more important, for the people of the City of New York." |
| Oct. 12 |
The PBA runs a full-page ad in Newsday showing police officers being harassed at the GOP convention under a headline: "After a day like this our police officers shouldn't have to work a second job." |
September |
Sep. 29
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Pat Lynch is quoted in a Daily News article about the parole application by the killer of Patrolman Cecil Sledge, who was gunned down in 1980: "This cold-blooded killer, who killed while on parole for other crimes, must never see the light of day as a free man." |
| Sep. 27 |
The PBA runs a full-page ad in the New York Post showing Mayor Bloomberg, blindfolded and holding the scales of justice, with New York City police officers' accomplishments far outweighing the city's "insulting wage offer." The headline reads: "New York City's police officers -- highest in productivity, lowest in salary -- Justice really is blind." |
| Sep. 22 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a New York Post article about a Manhattan judge's ruling that New York City must pay $170,600 to the family of Jose ("Kiko") Garcia, the drug dealer shot and killed in self-defense by Officer Michael O'Keefe in 1992: "It's disgraceful to award money to the family of a known drug dealer when a police officer is found to be working completely within the guidelines of the department and at serious risk to his own life." |
| Sep. 19 |
Pat Lynch's photo and quotes are included in an article in The Chief about a recent arbitrator's ruling barring police officers from performing clerical tasks normally done by civilian PAAs: The decision "primarily impacts PBA members and yet we were denied the opportunity to represent our members in this process. For that reason we are considering a challenge to the arbitrator's decision." |
| Sep. 18 |
The New York Post publishes a letter by Pat Lynch urging state legislators to fix the death penalty law in the wake of the murders of Detectives Patrick Rafferty and Robert Parker. "By dragging its feet on this important reform legislation," Lynch wrote in part, "the Assembly has taken an important tool and deterrent -- the threat of execution for heinous crimes -- from the hands of law enforcement and prosecutors. The families of Detectives Parker and Rafferty deserve an opportunity for justice." |
| Sept. 17 |
New York Post columnist Steve Dunleavy quotes Pat Lynch in an article about the retirement of 67 Pct. Police Officer Suzie Johnson: I bow to you...I'm in awe of you, retired, but you'll always be a cop at heart." |
| Sept. 16 |
The Daily News quotes Pat Lynch at funeral for slain Det. Patrick Rafferty: "The death penalty is absolutely a deterrent to a cop-killer." |
| Sept. 14 |
A letter by Pat Lynch is published in the New York Post responding to the newspaper's opinion piece about NYC's GOP-Week success. "The mayor and police commissioner are quick to call us professionals and take credit for our work," Lynch writes, in part, "but they refuse to formulate a plan that will bring our police officers upt to a level of pay on par with other professional police departments." Lynch is quoted in a New York Times article about the arraignment of the accused killer of Detectives Robert Parker and Patrick Rafferty: "If anything was a capital case, this was." |
| Sept. 13 |
Pat Lynch is interviewed in coverage by Channels 4 and 5 of the killing of Detectives Patrick Rafferty and Robert Parker. Lynch soundbites: "This is a call to the citizens of this city to reach out to their elected officials — fix the problem with the death penalty, get it back in place so things like this don't happen again. This is the case the death penalty was made for — a person that would take the lives of two New York City detectives. |
| Sept. 12 |
Lynch is interviewed by Steve Malzberg on WABC-Radio. |
| Sept. 10 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a New York Times article on the new civil trial ordered in the Gidone Busch case: "New York City police officers have no script to follow on the streets of New York. They have to make split-second decisions when faced with danger. In this case we believe the officers took the only option left open to them." |
| Sept. 1 |
Pat Lynch is interviewed on WOR-Radio's Ed Walsh Show on the assault of the police detective at an RNC protest. |
August |
| Aug. 31 |
The Daily News and Newsday cover the New York visit by Boston PBA president Tom Nee, 100 of his members and other police officers nationwide who joined the NYC PBA picket line. "Our members are working to keep all of us safe," the News quotes Pat Lynch, "so we thank our brothers and sisters who came from around the country to support us." Lynch's photo and quotes accompany an article in The Chief summarizing the informational picketing and press conferences held by the PBA in the weeks leading up to the Republican National Convention: "Even with the arbitration panel in place, the mayor can come to the table and negotiate. We want the delegates coming to this city to know this is an issue on people's minds." |
| Aug. 30 |
Boston PBA President Tom Nee, 100 of his members and other police officers from around the nation join the New York City PBA for picketing at various locations including outside Gracie Mansion where the mayor is hosting a reception for Republican delegates and for a candlelight vigil at Ground Zero. Coverage is aired by NY 1 and Channels 2, 4, 7 and 11. Pat Lynch soundbite: "What we're asking is people to remember what happened and remember what happened (at Ground Zero) and remember that New York City police officers and firefighters to this day are willing to do it again." Channels 7 and 11 also air stories about a "protest by poor people" near Madison Square Garden at which the protestors chant: "The police deserve a raise." |
| Aug. 28 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in the Daily News in an article about the NYPD using thousands of auxiliary police officers to help protect the city during the RNC: "These auxiliary officers do not have the enforcement capabilities to adequately protect the citizens of this city." Lynch is also quoted in a New York Times article about a TV spot by the group opposing the West Side stadium proposal tying its opposition to a call for raises for police officers: "It's absolutely hypocritical to say they can't find money for people to keep us safe, but they can find money to build a stadium to play games." |
| Aug. 27 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in the Boston Globe in a story about Boston PBA president Tom Nee leading a contingent of his police officers to join the New York City PBA and UFA in their informational picketing of Mayor Bloomberg on Monday, August 30: "In that our members are going to be working a great deal of overtime on 12-hour shifts, the support of the Boston PBA and of Tom Nee, one of the nation's leading labor leaders, is greatly appreciated. Labor negotiations in New York City is not a fair game played on a level playing field. Striking by police officers is illegal in New York City. For that reason, we have to use every opportunity to leverage the city to do what is moral and what is right." Lynch is interviewed by WNYC's Brian Lehrer concerning the contract dispute. |
| Aug. 25 |
The Daily News, the New York Post, Newsday and the New York Sun cover the PBA-UFA press conference on the City Hall steps with family members of police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty. |
| Aug. 24 |
The Daily News, the Associated Press and the New York Sun report on the PBA-UFA press conference in which the unions announce that they have written a letter to President Bush asking him for their help and support in their contract battle with the city. The New York Times and the AP report that the PERB has ordered that an arbitration panel be selected for the PBA's contract dispute. NY 1 and Channels 2, 4, 7, 9 and 11 and WINS news radio air coverage of a PBA-UFA press conference on the City Hall steps with widows, children and other family members of police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty. Lynch soundbite: "Any time in that (arbitration) process, this mayor can come to the table and we can come to a resolution. We're asking him to do that. We're at the table waiting. He refuses to do it." |
| Aug. 23 |
Pat Lynch's photo, taken at the Aug. 21 press conference in Athens Square Park in Astoria, Queens, appears in a New York Times article about possible protests at the Republican National Convention. CNN, NY 1 and Channels 2, 5, 7, 9 and 11 and WINS and WCBS news radio air coverage of the PBA-UFA press conference at Ground Zero announcing that the unions have sent a letter to President Bush asking for his help and support in their contract battle with the mayor. CNN quotes extensively from the letter and it and the other stations run soundbites with Lynch: "We want the President of the United States and all Republicans to know that this mayor is not taking care of the people that keep him and all others safe each and every day." |
| Aug. 22 |
Channels 2 and 4 air morning reports on the PBA press conference in Athens Square Park. Pat Lynch is interviewed on the radio station MIX 102.7 FM Magazine with Earl Douglass. |
| Aug. 21 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in the New York Post and Newsday, in a response to the mayor's charge, in his weekly radio broadcast, that the police and fire union leaders are trying to hang on to their "cushy jobs." "This is coming from a billionaire mayor," Lynch is quoted, "who doesn't understand what a working person goes through who has to work a full day without a fair day's pay." The Pinocchio ad runs in Newsday. NY 1 and Channels 5, 7 and 9 air coverage of a PBA press conference in Athens Square Park in Astoria, Queens, in which the local Greek-American community expresses support for the PBA in their contract battle with the mayor, who is at the Olympic Games in Athens at the same moment. Lynch soundbite: "We want to get the message out to the people of New York, to get the mayor of this city to focus on these contract negotiations. We've got to fix this problem." |
| Aug. 20 |
Newsday, the Daily News and the New York Post cover the PBA-UFA press conference on the sidewalk just west of City Hall Park where Pat Lynch and UFA president Steve Cassidy sat at a mock bargaining table with an empty chair representing the absent Mayor Bloomberg. The Post quotes Lynch: "The mayor is jet-setting ... around the world in his private jet, inviting people to come to New York City. He's not taking care of business at home." Lynch is also quoted in a Daily News report that Judge Laura Blackburne has been hit with formal charges by the state Commission on Judicial Conduct. Writes the News: "PBA President Patrick Lynch said his members will not be satisfied until Blackburne is permanently removed from the bench. 'In charging Judge Blackburne with violating judicial ethics, the commission...has reinforced police officers' trust in the system,' Lynch said." PBA First Vice President John Puglissi appears on NY 1's "Inside City Hall" with SBA President Ed Mullins to advocate the police unions' position in the contract battle with the mayor. |
| Aug. 19 |
The New York Times and Daily News run articles about the PBA and UFA attracting 1,000 of their members to a 1 a.m. pop-up informational picketing session outside Mayor Bloomberg's East 79th St. townhouse the previous day. Full-page ads, sponsored by a PBA-led coalition of police and fire unions, rebutting the mayor's lies in his comments about the contract negotiations and depicting him with a Pinocchio nose appear in the Daily News and New York Post. The Post also runs a story about the ad. The ad is also featured in TV coverage of the PBA-UFA press conference on the sidewalk just west of City Hall Park where Pat Lynch and UFA president Steve Cassidy sit at a mock bargaining table with an empty chair representing the absent Mayor Bloomberg. NY 1 and Channels 2, 9 and 5 air coverage of the event. "We're going to continue to follow this mayor, we're going to wake him up in the morning, put him to bed at night. We're going to continue to go out and get our message out," Lynch says in a soundbite on NY 1. Much of the coverage also includes tape of the previous day's demonstration outside the mayor's residence. |
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