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| 2006
January
- April |
| Apr. 28 |
In a New York
1 video, Pat Lynch tells NY1 that higher top pay will solve
the recruitment problem. |
| April 26 |
In WABC,
New York 1,
WNBC videos,
Pat Lynch and board members join TWU President Roger Toussaint
at a rally before he surrendered to serve a 10-day jail sentence
for the 3-day long TWU strike last December. In UPN9
and Fox-5
videos, PBA 2nd VP Mubarak Abdul-Jabbar joins Rep. Anthony
Weiner in calling for the waiver of diplomatic immunity or
deportation of a Russian diplomat who hit a Highway officer
while apparently intoxicated. In a WCBS
video, convicted cop shooter William Hodges — who was
released in error by Judge Laura Blackburne under speedy trial
provisions — is sentenced to 25 years for shooting uniformed
police officer David Gonzales in 1999. |
| April 25 |
In the Daily
News, Pat Lynch said the Gonzalez case showed Blackburne's
"anti-police bias." |
| April 2 |
Pat Lynch joins Council Speaker Christine Quinn in seeking
$9 million to upgrade 18,000 vests. View video at: NY1,
CBS 2, NBC
4, Fox 5,
ABC 7, UPN
9 and WB
11. Read print accounts at: NY
Times; Daily
News, NY Post,
Newsday; The
Sun. |
March |
| March 31 |
The New
York Times describes how New York labor leaders criticize
anti-strike law. |
| March 31 |
In the Sun,
Pat Lynch moves to quash office of collective bargaining. |
| March 30 |
New York 1
covers Lynch's testimony at the City Council when he calls for
revisions to Taylor Law. |
| March 27 |
New York Post
interviews potential recruits about salary. |
| March 22 |
Pat Lynch comments on the proposed build-up of the NYPD in
the Post,
Sun, News,
and Newsday. |
| March 17 |
In a Chief-Leader
article on the BCB dismissal of the PBA's complaint against
Bloomberg's comments during negotiations, Lynch charged that
the decision showed that the Board is biased against unions.
He said, "In practice, OCB is an arm of the Mayor's Office
of Labor Relations." |
| March 14 |
In the Post,
Pat Lynch calls P.O. Enchautegui's murderer's proposed self-defense
claim "absolute nonsense." On CBS
and UPN9
videos, Lynch and hundreds of PBA members pledge that actor
won't profit from murder. |
| March 13 |
On CBS
and UPN9
videos, Marine Corps Law Encforcement Foundation donates $40,000
towards college education of the PO Dillon Stewart's daughters. |
| March 7 |
In the Chief-Leader,
Pat Lynch asserts that last week's ruling on personnel records
"should send a message to the NYPD that this is a bad policy
that they should rescind immediately and permanently abandon
for the future." |
| March 4 |
Newsday and
Post cover the
court decision ordering the NYPD to show personnel records to
the PAPD, quoting Pat Lynch accusing the NYPD of a "blatant
attempt" to try to keep his union members from jobs where
they will earn $30,000 more a year. |
| March 3 |
New York 1
(video) covers PBA victory in court-ordered handover of personnel
files to PAPD. Pat Lynch said that the NYPD's attempt to prevent
access to the files was a "blatant attempt to prevent police
officers frrom pursuing better paying police jobs." |
| March 1 |
Police union disagreements covered in the Chief
and the Post,
and the Chief
covers the sentencing of cop-killer Legere to life without
parole. |
February |
| February 21 |
In the Sun,
Pat Lynch says: "The new Crimes Against Police laws ...
will instill respect for the badge and uniform in the mind of
the criminal community." |
| February 17 |
Pat Lynch blasts back at Mayor's attacks in Daily
News. |
| February 16 |
Post,
News,
and a video on Channel
4 report that some recruits filed for food stamps, while
the Chief covers
the judge ordering personnel records to be available to the
P.A.P.D. |
| February 12 |
Pat Lynch says "These cops - these heroes in training
- can barely make ends meet when they are in Police Academy"
in the Daily
News discussing the effects of reduced pay for rookies,
a story picked up by UPI. |
| February 10 |
Daily News
and New York Post
cover the judge's order to the NYPD to make personnel records
abailable to potential employers. |
| February 9 |
The death of P.O. Eric Hernandez is covered in the Sun,
Newsday,
News,
Post, Times
|
| February 8 |
In a New
York 1 video, Lynch calls for full prosecution under "crimes
against police" law of thugs who brutally attacked PO Hernandez. |
| February 7 |
PBA files records lawsuit against city: Newsday,
News, Post,
WINS |
| February 3 |
In the Chief,
Lynch warns that changes to pension benefits will further discourage
recruitment in the NYPD. Another article in the Chief
discusses rulings by arbitrators that summons quotas exist and
must cease, and that NYPD violated rules for HQ security staff
and must pay. |
| February 2 |
Story on new law covered in the New
York Sun. |
| February 1 |
Pat Lynch joins Brooklyn DA Joe Hynes to announce the first
indictment under the tougher law called the "crimes against
police act" as reported on Channel
7 and New
York 1 (videos). |
| January |
| January 27 |
Letter from Pat Lynch to the Editor of the Chief:
"City Won’t Pay Cops Fairly" |
| January 21 |
In an NBC video,
Pat Lynch calls on judges to send a message with career criminal
who shot at police. |
| January 20 |
Videos: On Fox-5,
New York 1,
UPN9,
and WB11,
a PBA grievance results in a city arbitrator ordering the
NYPD to cease and desist from using illegal summons quotas
in Brooklyn's 75 Precinct. Videos: On WCBS,
Fox-5, UPN9,
and WB11,
Diane Piagentini and PBA president Pat Lynch call on the NY
State Division of Parole to deny parole for Black Liberation
Army assassins Herman Bell and Anthony Bottom who murdered
of PO Joseph Piagentini and PO Waverly Jones in 1971. |
| January 12 |
The PBA honors dozens of heroes in its ranks at the annual
"Finest of the Finest" awards ceremony. TV news video
(CBS and Fox-5)
and the Daily
News reports the stories of the late PO James McNaughton
— the first NYC police officers to make the ultimate sacrifice
for his country in Iraq -- was honored and a plaque presented
to his parents while police officers Maria Franco and Victor
Matos of the 33 Pct. honored for saving the life of an infant
stabbed by an EDP. |
| January 11 |
Pat Lynch appears on New
York 1's "Inside City Hall" (video) in a freewheeling
discussion of the dangers of policing, the death penalty and
contract negotiations. On a UPN9
video, Pat Lynch joins Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in a
call for stronger state and federal legislation to curb gun
violence in NYC. In the print press, Lynch is quoted in the
New York Post,
in an article about Steven Armento bragging to arresting officers
about his superior firepower to that of Police Officer Daniel
Enchautegui, whom he is accused of killing: "This [suspect's]
statement shows this vermin to be a cold-blooded unremorseful
cop killer, the poster boy for the reinstatment of the death
penalty in New York State." |
| Jan. 10 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in the New
York Times, New
York Post, Daily
News, Newsday
and the New York
Sun, in articles about the not-guilty pleas entered by Lillo
Brancato Jr. and Steven Armento, accused killers of Police Officer
Daniel Enchautegui: "He's an evil man," Lynch tells
reporters, referring to the actor Brancato: "and you cannot
take evil out of a person actor or otherwise...His choice
was to stand with that killer. He's equally as guilty. Now it's
time to make sure there's justice and he never, ever sees the
light of day." Lynch is also quoted in the News
and Newsday,
in stories about the swearing in of the first NYPD recruits
being paid the new starting salary of $25,100. "We go to
arbitration because the city refuses to negotiate from across
the table," Lynch tells reporters. "We need to sit
at a table. Nassau County police officers start at $21,000 but
their top pay is $90,000. They do not have a recruitment nor
a retention problem" Lynch's photo and quotes also appear
in an article in The Chief-Leader
about legislation drafted by U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner and signed
by President Bush that allocates about $280 million to New York
City to hire an additional 3,640 police officers over the next
four years: "The NYPD is one of the few police departments
in America that has fewer police officers today than it did
on Sept. 11, 2001, despite the obvious increase in workload
caused by anti-terrorism activities. President Bush's signing
of the [bill] will help to put more police officers on the street
making our neighborhoods safe." |
| January 9 |
Videos show hundreds of police
officers join Pat Lynch at arraignment of cop killers. Lynch
warns potential jurors not to be swayed by the celebrity status
of one of the killers: ABC,
CBS, Fox-5,
NBC, New
York 1, UPN9.
Lynch blames city for "disastrously low" starting
salary that is impacting recruiting: ABC,
NBC, New
York 1. In the print press, Lynch¹s photo accompanies
a half-page question-and-answer article in Metro
NY in which Lynch discusses several recent issues and
events, including the recruitment crisis, his support for
the recently striking Transport Workers Union, stiffer penalties
for crimes against police officers and the death penalty. |
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