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| 2007
October – December |
| Dec 21 |
Videos on Channel
2 and Channel
11 cover how the PBA, family and wounded cops fight
the parole of the killer of P.O. Stephen Gilroy. |
| Dec. 14 |
In the Chief-Leader: PBA
critics believe pay is too low and Bratton
says that cops merit best pay . |
| Dec. 10 |
Video on Fox and Channel 11:
Police union leaders join elected official on the steps of
City Hall to call for the continued incarceration of a cop
killer. |
| Dec. 8 |
Video on ABC, My9, Fox and New
York 1 covers the annual PBA party for the families of
officers who fell in the line of duty |
| Dec. 7 |
In a New
York 1 interview, Kelly talks about unfair
salaries at top and bottom of the scale. Pat Lynch tells
the the Daily
News the union is hoping the board will rescind
the release of Shuaib Raheem, 58, and conduct a new hearing
after it gets an earful from Patricia Gilroy, the widow
of slain Officer Stephen Gilroy. |
| Dec. 6 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in Newsday, The New
York Sun, Metro and the Courier
News in articles about the arraignment of P.O. Raphael Lora for manslaughter in the death of motorist who had tried to drag him under his auto: "This off-duty officer took action to protect his community from an obviously dangerous drunken driver, who had already crashed into two parked vehicles. The officer, who never fired his weapon before on the job, was subsequently forced to fire in order protect his own life and to prevent possible injury to others." |
| Dec. 4 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in The
Chief as he reacted to Medical Examiner Dr. Charles S. Hirsch's decision not to reclassify the death of a police officer who worked at Ground Zero because he did not start working there until Sept. 13, 2001: "This medical examiner has been politicized. Police Officer Godbee's death was a result of a criminal act and should be classified as a homicide. It is no different from dying from a bullet wound days or years later." |
November |
| Nov. 27 |
The New York
Post publishes a letter-to-the-editor from Pat
Lynch responding to a Post editorial: "We expect the city of
New York to obey the Taylor Law and to pay police a salary
that is comparable to what other local professional police
departments earn," the letter read in part. "We
expect to be able to live decently, not luxuriously, in the
city that we protect on our police salary." The Post also
runs the PBA's full-page
ad. |
| Nov. 26 |
Letters to the New
York Post support Pat Lynch in response to
a recent
editorial criticizing him: “Pat Lynch is doing the
job of PBA president that we elected him to do,” writes
Officer Joe Colavito. “As usual, the city administration
doesn¹t want to sit down in good faith and negotiate — it
simply wants to shove pattern bargaining down our throats. Thanks
to Lynch, we won¹t stand for the city¹s decades-long
tactics and are fighting back for the wages we deserve.” A
full-page taken out by the PBA appears in the Daily
News. It
reads in part: “If NYC had obeyed the Taylor Law and paid
police officers a fair market wage, there would be no police
shortage today.” On WCBS and
WNBC, Pat Lynch
responds to the M.E.'s refusal ro rule death of police officer
James Godbee as a homicide. "This medical examiner
once again proves that he's looking at this from a litigation
standpoint rather than a right and wrong standpoint." he says.
Another video on WCBS also
reports the dedication of a playground to PO Dillon Stewart. |
| Nov. 23 |
Letters to the Voice of the People section of the Daily News support Pat Lynch in response to a letter criticizing him for his contract positions: “PBA President Patrick Lynch is far from a hypocrite,” writes
Caroline Gise
. “His job is to protect and represent police officers...” |
| Nov. 20 |
Pat Lynch's photo and the PBA's positions on the contract
situation and its effect on NYPD recruitment and retention
are featured in an article in The
Chief about two city council
members appearing as witnesses for the PBA at PERB arbitration
hearings: Council member Hiram Monserrate: "I made an opening
statement about the importance of ensuring that our police
officers are treated fairly. We train them and they gain valuable
experience on patrol. And then we lose them to other jurisdictions
that pay more — that just doesn't make sense." |
| Nov. 19 |
Pat Lynch is criticized in a New
York Post editorial for
his "take-no-prisoners attitude" and "incessant, pie-in-the-sky
invocation of Nassau and Suffolk salaries" in his contract
negotiations with the city. |
| Nov. 16 |
Lynch is quoted in the Daily
News, New York
Post, New York
Sun, Metro, in
articles about the fact that half of Nassau County's police
recruiting class are NYPD veterans: "There seems to be a direct
correlation between our salaries...falling behind other nearby
police departments and the ever-increasing numbers of fully
trained and experienced New York City police officers quitting." New
York 1 also covers the story in a video. |
| Nov. 15 |
Pat Lynch talks to WOR's Steve Malzberg on various topics
including the contract, Giuliani's candidacy and the recent
police involved shooting. Click here to go to the podcast: http://podcast.wor710.com/wor/762124.mp3. Pat
Lynch is quoted in a Daily
News article about Police
Officer Daniel Enchautegui's accused killer's attempt
to suppress his confession in the case: “We knew he was
a born killer and now we know he is a born liar. He contradicted
himself on the stand, calling the professionals liars. He believes
he's right and the rest of the world is wrong.” Lynch
is also quoted in the News's
article about Gov. Spitzer's decision to fight a lawsuit that
could have speeded up the release on parole of some of the
state's most violent criminals: “The
decision to fight this ridiculous suit by violent felons and
killers is the right decision.” |
| Nov. 12 |
Pat Lynch's photo and quotes are prominent in a New
York Post article headlined, "PBA big hammers Rudy
as skinflint on crime and terror." Lynch said in part: "The
inability to keep veteran cops on the job or to recruit adequate
numbers of new ones can be traced directly to the Giuliani
mayoralty. While the city was rolling in money, the Giuliani
administration cried future poverty and stuck New York City
police officers with 3 1/2 years without a raise. Giuliani's
'zeroes for heroes' contracts held police pay stagnant while
all the other local departments in the metro area were getting
modest but steady raises." New
York 1 and the Gothamist also reports on the PBA's position. |
| Nov. 9 |
Videos on CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox5 and My9 show the murderer of
P.O. Dillon Stewart being sentenced to life without parole.
The New
York Post publishes a letter by Pat Lynch responding
to a Post editorial. It read in part: "You can't
have it both ways. You can't say that our work gives the
city value and then refuse to credit us with it in negotiations.
Competitive pay for police officers is a good investment in
public safety that will pay dividends for years to come." Lynch
is quoted in a Daily
News article about the sentencing of Police
Officer Dillon Stewart's murderer to life without parole.
Referring to P.O. Stewart's widow Leslyn Stewart, Lynch
said: ""[Her] strength carries every New York City
police officer who is riding these dangerous streets this very
moment." |
| Nov. 8 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a Daily
News article about negotiations
between the State Attorney General's Office and lawyers
for inmates that may result new parole hearings for cop-killers
and other violent criminals who have been denied parole in
the past and have been in prison for decades: "In a state where
there is no death penalty, there should be no parole for violent
felons or murderers. It is our view that the state's parole
laws are far too lenient and allow too many violent criminals
onto our city streets only to commit more heinous acts. No
cop-killer should ever be given the opportunity to walk the
streets a free person again."
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| Nov. 7 |
On the eve of the sentencing of her husband's killer, Leslyn
Stewart speaks with MY
9 News about her life since the tragedy
and Pat Lynch comments on the need for the death penalty in
New York State. |
| Nov. 6 |
Pat Lynch's photo and quotes appear in The
Chief in
an article about the PBA's press conference pointing
out that veteran sanitation workers earn nearly $9,000 more
than police officers: "This is not an attack on New York City
sanitation workers. [But] New York City is the only city in
America that pays the people collecting household garbage more
than the people who risk their lives fighting crime and the
real threat of terrorism." Lynch is also quoted in The Chief's
"Razzle Dazzle" column about Mayor Bloomberg's
remarks questioning the heroism of Det. James Zadroga and whether
his death was due to the more than 400 hours he spent working
a Ground Zero: "To take a litigation stance, to save money
for the city, just goes to show that this is a ... billionaire
that doesn't care. The mayor is out of touch." Lynch is
also quoted in The
Chief's article about this issue: "This
is the most insulting thing that's ever been said about
a police officer." |
| Nov. 5 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in the Daily
News in an article about that newspaper's editorial call for the creation of an independent panel to set "clearer standards and greater transparency" in determining who died from WTC exposure, a decision now made by city Health Commissioner Charles Hirsch. Lynch noted that Hirsch has a conflict of interest as an employee of the city, which would be liable for any payouts in possible litigation over the issue: "A panel is more likely to consider all circumstances, while the city will view them from a litigation and liability standpoint." |
| Nov. 1 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in the Daily
News in an article about
three police officers being suspended for alleged steroid use
while a deputy chief avoided that penalty, saying that the
cops' discipline "smacks of favoritism." |
October |
| Oct. 31 |
Pat Lynch demands apology from Bloomberg for Zadroga insult:
videos on Fox5, WNBC, WABC, My9.
With bonuses, veteran sanitation workers on collection earn
more than veteran police officers: Videos on New
York 1, My9, Channel
11, and Channel
12. Pat Lynch is quoted in the Daily
News and in Metro
NY in articles about New York City sanitation workers earning more
than police officers: "This is not an attack on New York
City sanitation workers. [But] New York City is the only city
in America that pays more to people who pick up household garbage
than to people who put their lives on the line." Lynch is
also quoted in the New
York Sun's article about Mayor Bloomberg's
comment that deceased NYPD Detective James Zadroga, who died
from respiratory ailments after working more than 400 hours at
Ground Zero, was not a hero: It is "despicable," said
Lynch, for Bloomberg to "tarnish
the reputation and memory of a man who was a hero by nature."
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| Oct.. 30 |
Pat Lynch's photo and quotes appear in a curtain-raiser article in The
Chief about the imminent beginning of the PBA PERB arbitration hearings: "The NYPD faces a critical retention and recruitment problem today. No other uniformed force is losing veteran members or is suffering from the lack of qualified candidates like the Police Department." |
| Oct. 26 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a Daily
News article about the New
York State Police beating the NYPD in both salary and recruiting: "We
are willing to bet that hundreds of those applicants for New
York State Trooper jobs came from within the ranks of the NYPD
where morale is as low as the paychecks." The Daily News also
quotes Lynch in an article about P.O. Andrew Suarez's sentencing
statement at sentencing of man (married to an NYPD officer)
who shot him early this year. Referring to the wife, who faces
charges of evidence tampering and official misconduct, Lynch
said: "She made a decision to cross a line and will forever
go down in the annals of the NYPD as a criminal and a mope." |
| Oct. 23 |
Pat
Lynch's photo accompanies an article in The Chief about
the PBA federal court suit challenging the new NYPD policy
mandating sobriety tests for all police officers involved in
shootings that wound or kill. In the
PBA's full-page advertisement in The
Chief, a professor
testifies for the PBA against the
City in our fight for a just contract. |
| Oct. 22 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a Daily
News article about the deputy chief who was cleared of departmental steroid-use charges while police officers involved in the same investigation remain under suspicion and on modified duty: "Right now six police officers and a supervisor are accused of the same thing yet the police officers are modified and the supervisor is not. All we want and expect is a fair investigation." |
| Oct. 20 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in the Staten
Island Advance article
about the PBA endorsement of GOP incumbent Daniel Donovan
as Richmond County District Attorney: "He's the person who
understands the criminal justice system and how the police
officer fits into that justice system and the importance to
New York City police officers' partnership with enforcement.
We do not give endorsements -- a candidate earns the endorsement.
Dan Donovan has earned this endorsement." |
| Oct. 19 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in the New
York Post, New
York Times and Newsday in articles about the PBA federal court suit challenging the new NYPD policy mandating sobriety tests for all police officers involved in shootings that wound or kill: "There is no reason or justification to subject an officer who legally fires a weapon...to the humiliation and psychological trauma of a mandatory Breathalyzer test." |
| Oct. 18 |
Videos on ABC, NBC, Fox5, NY1, RNN and News
12 Bronx cover the PBA's constitutional challenge to
the NYPD's mandatory alcohol testing policy in federal court. |
| Oct. 16 |
Pat Lynch's photo and quotes appear in an article in The
Chief about a task force recommendation that Gov. Spitzer endorse legislation to reduce the 40-hour exposure requirement in the World Trade Center disability law. Lynch called the requirement "arbitrary," adding: "There is evidence that workers present during the first 48 hours after the collapse are more likely to develop illnesses. They deserve and have earned the protection that the 9/11 disability law provides, and the PBA will seek legislation to provide it to them." Lynch is also quoted in The
Chief article about the guilty verdict in the trail of Police Officer Dillon Stewart's killer. |
| Oct. 12 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in the New
York Times and the Daily
News in
articles about the guilty verdict in the trial of Police Officer
Dillon Stewart's killer: "Regrettably, (convicted
killer Allan) Cameron will not face the fate that he imposed
on Dillon Stewart, who was a fine officer and a loving husband
and father. It is time for our elected officials to find the
political will to legislate a constitutionally appropriate
death penalty for the murder of a police officer." |
| Oct. 11 |
Videos on WCBS, WABC, WNBC, Fox5 and New
York 1 show how the jury takes less than two hours
to convict the killer of PO Dillon Stewart. |
| Oct. 10 |
Video on WCBS covers
the closing
arguments in murder of PO Dillon Stewart |
| Oct. 9 |
Pat Lynch's photo and quotes appear in two articles in The
Chief. In an article about the DEA's
tentative contract settlement,
he says: "The solution begins and ends with paying New
York City police officers a competitive top salary. When you
have places like Elizabeth, N.J., with a lower median income
and much smaller tax base than New York City paying its police
over 20 percent more...it's no wonder we can't attract
candidates." In The Chief' article about the breathalyzer
tests given to the detectives wounded in the Oct. 5 life-saving
shootings, Lynch says: "They should be receiving praise
and commendations, not alcohol-testing."
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| Oct. 8 |
A letter by Pat Lynch is published in the Daily News commenting
on their Oct. 5 editorial about the NYPD's new policy
of giving sobriety tests to all police officers who shoot someone
to a sobriety test: "Sometimes police have to use deadly
force to protect themselves and the public...No one should
ever be subjected to the degradation of having to take a Breathalyzer
test simply for doing their job. It's wrong and it's
unconstitutional and we will fight it." |
| Oct. 4 |
Pat Lynch is quoted in a Daily News article about the
success of the Port Authority's police recruitment effort:
"It is no surprise to me that the Port Authority Police have
more candidates than they need because at a top pay of $83,000
they are paying a professional police salary." Lynch is also
quoted in New
York Post and New
York Times articles about NYPD detectives wounded in a
life-saving gun battle who were required to submit to sobriety
tests because their shots found their mark: "There is
absolutely no reason to submit these courageous detectives
to such a test...They should be receiving praise and commendations,
not alcohol testing."
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