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| 2007
January - May |
| May 24 |
In an NBC video, the PBA is to sue to make 9/11 Sarcoidosis
a LOD injury. |
| May 22 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in The New
York Post, Daily
News and
New York
Times in articles about Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's
statement before a City Council budget hearing that the "whole
issue of pattern-bargaining has to be re-examined because it's
not working very well for the Police Department" and about
the attractiveness of the police jobs in Suffolk and Nassau
compared with the NYPD's recruitment crisis. Lynch in the News: "Police
Commissioner Kelly is absolutely correct about the dismal failure
of pattern bargaining and the severe consequences on police
operations." Lynch in The Times: "The loss of experienced officers
has reached alarming levels. Resignations grew from 635 quitting
in 2004 to 902 quitting in 2006, many of whom left to take
better paying jobs in other police departments. There is a
clearly defined trend showing that as NYPD salaries slipped
behind other law enforcement agencies, the number of fully
trained and experienced NYPD officers who quit for other jobs
grew dramatically." Also in the Daily
News, a letter from Joseph
John Harmon, Jr., describing how he is about to become homeless.
Lynch's photo and quotes are also all over The Chief-Leader
in articles about the NYPD's failure to come close to filling
the next Academy class and about the imminent ruling in the
protest filed with PERB concerning the list of arbitrators.
On a Fox 5 video, P.O. Joe Harmon explains how low pay has
put his family at risk of an eviction. |
| May 21 |
The New York Times quotes Pat Lynch in an article about the
fatal shooting of a motorist by P.O. Raphael Lora: "The
PBA...cautioned yesterday against jumping to conclusions," The
Times reports. "'Law enforcement has a legal obligation
to conduct a full and thorough investigation of the facts before
coming to any conclusion,' Patrick J. Lynch said." NBC covers
the story on the police commissioner's remarks concerning pattern
bargaining.. |
| May 20 |
Video on CNN and Fox
News covers the PBA reaction to the
off-duty shooting in the Bronx. In an editorial headlined, "The
Police Are Overdue," The
New York Times makes almost all of the PBA's arguments
concerning the need to make New York City police officers'
salaries competitive with other jurisdictions. The editorial
repeats our arguments about recruitment and retention problems,
the stark contrasts not only in starting salaries but also
in maximum pay, and many other points the PBA makes, including
that "the city must concede that more has been asked of
the police than has been given...Much of the city's extraordinary
good fortune has come from taxes on real estate and tourism,
sectors that remain hot because New York has become attractive
as a place to live, work and visit. For that, the city owes
something to its police force. In Mr. Bloomberg's previous
corporate world, a great performance would merit an increase.
New York cops deserve one, at last." The Times also refers
to a statement made by Pat Lynch in an article about Diallo
cop Ken Boss suing the department to return him to full armed
duty: Lynch said in a statement, The Times reports "that
any officer not facing criminal or department charges should
be armed and returned to full duty." |
| May 14 |
On a Channel
9 video, Pat Lynch defends the detectives involved
in the Bell shooting. |
| May 11 |
PBA ad in Chief-Leader: "Attrition
Bargaining: Another City Creation That Violates the Taylor
Law?" Lynch’s photos and quotes are all over The
Chief-Leader, in articles about the PERB’s
imminent decision about the PBA challenge to the list of potential
arbitrators, about Lynch’s statement that former
Mayor Giuliani “doesn’t deserve to be president [of the
United States],” and about the PBA’s legal challenge
to the re-opener clause in the Uniformed
Firefighters Association contract settlement. |
| May 7 |
Pat Lynch’s reelection to a third four-year term as
PBA president beginning July 1 is reported
in Lisa Colangelo’s Civil Service column in The Daily
News. “We will use all the PBA’s power to achieve
fair treatment and fair compensation for our members, who risk
their lives every day to make New York the safest big city
in America,” Lynch is quoted. |
| May 3 |
Pat Lynch makes a lengthy appearance on NY 1's Inside
City Hall where he talks about unmanned RMPs,
the recruiting and retention problem, pending contract
and the Presidential race. |
| May 2 |
On Channel 12, Pat Lynch at Bronx Supreme Court pledges strong
police presence at the trial or trials of the killers of PO
Daniel Enchautegui. |
| May 1 |
Pat Lynch’s photo accompanies a Daily News editorial
about the PBA’s contract dispute with
the city. “To get the money (nominal salary increases),
the teachers agreed, among other things, to perform additional
work and to give up seniority hiring rights. The firefighters
surrendered some benefits and holidays for newly hired members.
Lynch has refused to take a similarly enlightened approach.” A
letter-to-the-editor by Lynch is published in The
New York Post in a response to a Post editorial: “The NYPD is
shrinking,” Lynch writes. “It can’t hire
enough new recruits, and veterans are quitting at the rate
of nearly 1,000 a year. Paying a top salary that competes with
other local police departments is the only way to solve those
problems.” Lynch’s photo and quotes accompany a
story in The Chief-Leader about the PBA’s filing of an
improper labor practice charge against the tentative firefighters
contract settlement because of the illegal re-opener clause,
or “me-too” provision: “Parity clauses were
outlawed years ago because they interfere with a union’s
right to negotiate a fair contract for its own members.” |
April |
| Apr. 30 |
Pat Lynch’s photo and quotes accompany a Daily
News article about
the NYPD covering up for its short-staffing problems by parking
unmanned patrol cars on major highways to deter speeding: “We
don’t have enough people to man the radio cars. Since
9/11, we’re down 4,000 officers and we don’t have
the ability to recruit new officers or keep veterans. You cannot
train an unmanned radio car to fight terrorism.” |
| Apr. 28 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a New
York Times article about Mayor Bloomberg’s
allocation of $1.4 million of the budget to hire 32 more fire
marshals: “The president of the PBA said that he had
no objection to more fire marshals being hired for public safety
but that public safety was diminished because hundreds of police
officers leave the department annually. ‘If the problem
isn’t addressed, the NYPD will be unable to attract new
recruits and veterans will continue to quit at the rate of
about 1,000 a year.’” |
| Apr. 27 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in The
Daily News and The
New York Times in
articles about Mayor Bloomberg’s announced $4.4-billion
budget surplus: “’There is no better time to adjust
our police salary to market rate than now,” [he] said,
adding that one reason the city was so prosperous now is because
of crime reduction.” |
| Apr. 12 |
Newsday: Pat Lynch is quoted regarding the affects of negative
publicity on the jury pool in the trial of three detectives
charged in the shooting of Sean Bell. In the Sun: Pat
Lynch supports three detectives charged in shooting of Sean Bell
and joins DEA president in blaming the “antics” of
race baiters for creating an unfit atmosphere for a fair trial. |
| Apr. 11 |
In a Channel
9 video, the PBA and Pat Lynch support the
detectives charged in the shooting of Sean Bell and Lynch counters
charges of media manipulation. |
| April 10 |
The Chief Leader: Pat Lynch’s column/ad addresses
issues of parity wars and cites a rash of assaults against
police officers that underscores why police should be treated
differently at the bargaining table. |
| April 8 |
Daily News Editorial: In an editorial about problems
building the supervisory ranks of the NYPD the Daily News writes “all
parties, including Mayor Bloomberg and Patrolmen’s Benevolent
Association President Patrick Lynch, agree that the city‘s
cops need better pay – and not just the rookies…” which
represents the first editorial recognition that uncompetitive
top pay is the real cause of the NYPD staffing problems. |
| April 7 |
Daily News: In a story where the Mayor claims that only a “handful” of
police officers have left the NYPD for better paying law enforcement
jobs, the PBA responded that over 4,000 “experienced
and expensively trained “ cops resigned from the NYPD
in the past five years emphasizing “that’s resigned,
not retired.” |
| April 3 |
The Chief Leader: Pat Lynch is quoted in a story about the
court’s dismissal of the city’s suit against PERB
saying “The Court confirmed the PBA’s belief that
the city’s action- which was a calculated effort to stack
the deck against New York City Police Officers’ arbitration
case – was ill-conceived and patently frivolous.” |
March |
| Mar. 26 |
amNewYork: A 40 year-old career criminal is indicted
following an attempt to burglarize the home of PBA president
Pat Lynch. |
| Mar. 23 |
In videos on Channel
4, Channel
7 and Channel
11, Pat Lynch blames increased assaults
on Police Officers on
inadequate staffing as injured PO Angel Cruz leaves the hospital.
In an article in the Daily News about police officer Stuart
Ingram whose shield deflected a knife attack and who is leaving
for the FDNY Pat Lynch is quoted saying: “It’s
a clear demonstration of the problem that the NYPD is facing,
where they ‘re spending huge sums of money to recruit,
test and train police officers, only to have them quit for
more desirable work.” |
| Mar. 21 |
The Sun: In a story where the Police Commissioner argues
for a higher starting salary for new officers, it is noted
that “the PBA has said the real problem in recruiting
new officers is top pay.” |
| Mar. 20 |
he Chief Leader:
A story called “PBA
Says Cop Shortage Merits Break in Parity” states “But
PBA president Patrick J. Lynch has continually scoffed at making
concessions and questioned the legality of pattern bargaining,
which he has pointed out is not mentioned in the Taylor Law.” |
| Mar. 16 |
A letter-to-the-editor by Pat Lynch appears in the New
York Post. “At top pay, a New York City cop earns $59.000,
while other local police earn between $68,000 and $94,000.
Nearly 1,000 experienced cops a year quit for better paying
jobs,” Lynch writes in part. Second installment of a
PBA page, a paid ad called “Setting the Record Straight,” appears
in The Chief-Leader. Pat Lynch’s photo and quotes also
appear in other articles in The
Chief, most notably a page-one
story under a banner headline reading, “Cops Back PBA...Cops
on Street Fault City for Stalled Contract; Despite Firefighter
Deal, Back PBA on Arbitration.” |
| Mar. 6 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in the Association Press and New
York Sun articles
about a police officer testifying before the Sean Bell grand
jury: “He will go in there and tell his story as a police
officer and put some facts to some of the fiction that ran
the streets.” |
| Mar. 5 |
Videos: PBA supports police officer Michael Carey at grand
jury in shooting incident: WCBS, WNBC, WABC, Fox5, UPN9,
and WB11 |
| Mar. 4 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a Daily News article about the labor impact
of the firefighters’ tentative contract settlement, criticizing
the “folly of pattern bargaining.” The full-page
PBA ad appears in AM NY. |
| Mar. 3 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in the New
York Times and Daily
News articles
about the firefighters’ deal: “The FDNY has not
experienced the same defection of experienced personnel that
the NYPD has, nor have they had any problem recruiting new
members.” |
| Mar. 2 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in the Associated Press article about
the United
Firefighters Association’s tentative contract settlement: “A
cookie-cutter contract settlement will not resolve the critical
problems the NYPD is facing in keeping experienced officers
on the job and attracting new ones. In that the city does not
have the leadership or political courage to negotiate a police
contract that will resolve the staffing crisis at the NYPD,
then the PBA is committed to achieving that goal through binding
arbitration.” |
| Mar. 1 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in The New York Sun, in an article about how
the NYPD is the only city agency that doesn’t report
in detail to the Office of Management and Budget about how
its resources are spent. “The president of the Patrolmen’s
Benevolent Association, Patrick Lynch, said the data might
show worrying indications of staffing problems at the precincts. ‘We
can understand why the NYPD does not want to advertise the
fact that local communities’ resources have been depleted
to dangerous levels.’” |
February |
| Feb. 28 |
Full-page PBA ad appears in the New York Post. |
| Feb. 27 |
Profile of Pat Lynch in City
Hall. |
| Feb. 21 |
Full-page PBA ad appears in Newsday. |
| Feb. 15 |
Pat Lynch writes
an op/ed column in the Daily
News pointing out that the
only way to keep veteran police officers from fleeing the
NYPD for better-paying departments is to hike veteran police
salaries: “If we fail to make police pay competitive,
the NYPD will
continue to shrink in size and experience, and the great
strides in crime-fighting achieved over the past decade
will be lost.” The PBA runs a full-page
ad in the News making the same point. |
| Feb. 14 |
Pat Lynch’s photo and letter-to-the-editor appear in
the New York
Post in response to the paper’s wrong-headed editorial
two days earlier: “The low starting salary is not the
problem; NYPD officers are woefully underpaid at every level.” Of
the other letters published in the same space, three out of
four support Lynch’s position. Lynch is quoted in Newsday’s
article about the questions surrounding the number of hours
P.O. Cesar Borja worked at Ground Zero before dying of a lung
ailment: “Police union President Patrick Lynch pointed
out that even with just 17 days downtown, Borja still would
have qualified under the 40-hour minimum required under the
state 9/11 disability law,” Newsday writes. |
| Feb. 12 |
The Daily News reports
that 7% of the current class dropped out, over twice the
rate of classes before the pay cut. |
| Feb. 11 |
In 1987, according to the Daily
News, a rookie cop earned
the equivalent of $48,000. |
| Feb. 9 |
In a paid full-page advertisement in the Chief-Leader,
Pat Lynch writes: "This newspaper’s pro-management
stance has become so bad that we decided
to publish our own regular column dedicated to doing what the
above headline
says, “setting the record straight.” In the same
issue, in a story about the City's suit against PERB, Pat
Lynch is quoted as saying "This
suit is a desperate attempt by the city to stack the deck against
its police offices by trying to name a biased arbitrator. The
Taylor Law decrees that a neutral arbitrator will decide the
terms of this contract, and police officers will not stand
for this blatant attempt to tamper with the process." |
| Feb. 8 |
Pat Lynch writes a column in El Diario-La Prensa, the Spanish-language
daily newspaper, about the NYPD recruitment and retention crisis. |
| Feb. 7 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a Daily
News article about the rookie police
officers who collared the perp who attacked another rookie
cop with a baseball bat: “The physical and mental courage
these officers showed ins typical of all New York City police
officers. Now it’s time for the city to show the political
courage to pay its police officers competitively.” |
| Feb. 3 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a New
York Times article about the
city suing PERB in an effort to get the state agency to name
the city's choice of "neutral arbitrator": "This
suit is a desperate attempt by the city to stack the deck against
its police officers by trying to name a biased arbitrator.
Clearly the city is afraid to give these officers a fair hearing
before an impartial arbitrator." |
| Feb. 2 |
Pat Lynch's photo and quotes are included in an article in The
Chief-Leader about the PBA's press conference about the rising rate of NYPD resignations and in the newspaper's coverage of the continuing dispute between the PBA and the city over the arbitrator's list that contains two biased arbitrators. |
January |
| Jan. 26 |
In an ABC video, former NYPD cop Cesar Morales says he quit
for better pay. |
| Jan. 25 |
Coverage of the pay issue continues in the Daily
News,
New York Post, and Staten
Island Advance. |
| Jan. 24 |
In continuing coverage of the PBA's explanation of the need
to increase officers' top pay, Pat Lynch is quoted in NY1 and
Channel 9 videos, and is interviewed on NY1's "Inside
City Hall." |
| Jan. 23 |
In a Chief-Leader article about the State Appellate Division’s
reversal of a lower court decision ordering the city to release
personnel records of officers seeking to transfer to the Port
Authority Police Department, a PBA spokesman is quoted saying
the union “strongly disagrees with the decision...It
was a policy that was clearly initiated to stop the hemorrhaging
of police officers from the NYPD for better-paying jobs.” |
| Jan. 22 |
In an NY1 video, PBA Recording Secretary Robert Zink joins
elected officials in call for 9-11 health treatment funding. |
| Jan. 20 |
Daily News: "Don't hit me over cop pay".
Read Pat Lynch's letter to the editor. |
| Jan. 18 |
Lynch says use budget surplus for police pay increase on ABC. |
| Jan. 16 |
Lynch and 111 Pct collar burglary suspect on NY1, Ch.4 and Ch.5. |
| Jan. 15 |
In a Daily
News article, Pat Lynch said: "There are
two ways to keep adequate staffing in the NYPD: hire more police
or keep the ones you have. The recruiting and retention
problem at the NYPD has reached critical mass and the solution
is simple: pay New York City police officers a salary that
can compete with the higher wages that other police departments
are paying." |
| Jan. 11 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in the New
York Post’s article
about the 1,103 NYPD recruits sworn in yesterday: “The
NYPD will be able to recruit as many candidates as it needs
when top pay for its police officers competitive with other
law enforcement agencies in the metropolitan area.” |
| Jan. 10 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a story in the New
York Sun about
the removal of the overtime cap and resulting 22% surge in
arrests: The policy change is “a direct result of the
NYPD’s recruitment and retention crisis, which exists
because the city refuses to pay officers a competitive salary.” |
| Jan. 9 |
Lynch is quoted in a Daily
News article that suggests that
wage-poor New York City cops “should move to Los Angeles,
where they’ll get beaches, bikinis – and $52,638...” Later
in the article, the News reports that Lynch “countered
that the city has had a recruiting crisis ever since it lost
pace with suburban salaries. The drop in rookie pay just allowed
the city to finally own up to the crunch, he said. ‘The
problem all along has been other departments paying much more,’ Lynch
said.” Lynch’s photo and quotes accompany an article
in The Chief-Leader about the PBA’s objection to the
proposed PERB arbitrators list: “Discussion regarding
the appointment of an arbitrator is premature while the PBA
responds to motion challenging both the lack of PERB board
participation in the formulation of the arbitrators list and
the inclusion of ceretain names in violation of the PERB selection
criteria.” The
Chief also quotes Lynch in its story about
the RAND Corporation’s review of NYPD gun training: “While
we believe New York City police officers are among the most
restrained in the world in the use of deadly physical force,
we always welcome additional or improved training. We would
encourage a similar review of both precinct staffing levels,
which have fallen dangerously low, and police pay levels, which
has caused a serious recruiting and retention problem.” |
| Jan. 8 |
Pat Lynch is quoted on Fox
News (video) , and in article
in the Daily
News about
the NYPD's recruitment crisis, including the high dropout and
failure rate in the July academy class: "It shows that
they have been putting anyone they can get into the academy.
So many other departments in the metro area pay their police
substantially more. They are getting the best candidates."
The News also runs an editorial criticizing Lynch for refusing
to accept the city's offer in the current round of negotiations
that would give rookies a modest raise for 20 extra days of
work. |
| Jan. 7 |
The Staten
Island Advance quotes Lynch in an article about the
contract talks and the NYPD's recruitment problems:
"The problem is top pay. They don't see the light
at the end of the tunnel or at the beginning of the tunnel." |
| Jan. 5 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in an article in The
Chief-Leader in which Police Commissioner Ray Kelly calls
starting pay the primary reason the NYPD can't recruit:
"The union has...argued that the maximum salary for cops
needs to be increased beyond the citywide wage pattern ...to
help recruit and retain new officers. 'The source of
the NYPD's recruiting and retention problem is no mystery:
The pay is too low when you join and it's too low when you
reach top pay,' Mr. Lynch has said." |
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