President's
Corner
By Patrick J. Lynch
Despite the NYPD’s pathological denials during the PERB hearings, we do have a critical recruitment and retention problem, and the facts and figures prove it.
PMP WARS: The Phantom
Menace — The PBA Strikes Back
Hidden tape recorder tells the tale. The PBA launches a legal
attack against the NYPD’s unlawful performance monitoring system,
and a listening device reveals the human side of the story.
Catastrophic Benefits,
Revisited
By John Puglissi
An update on a very important resource for PBA members and their dependents
facing extraordinary medical expenses.
Political Action”
By Mubarak Abdul-Jabbar
Those words mean what they say. And, by contributing just a little bit
of their spare time every year, the PBA rank-and-file can help them mean
a lot.
Q & A with Burt Young
By Donald Dewey
An illuminating discussion with a creative man and perennial friend to New York City police officers.
Doing More with Less
By Joseph Alejandro
We all know what that’s like — from a police officer trying to get by on the unjustly low salary the city pays, to the PBA, which has been forced to fight costly wars to get everything that’s coming to the membership.
Profile of the 111
Pct.
By Donald Dewey
Ok, there are worse commands in the city but, as one police officer assigned
there puts it, “for a cop, a city is only as calm as the unexpected
waiting around the next corner.”
Most Valuable Veteran:
Anthony Sylvester
He says the 111 Pct.'s real MVV is Ronald Freeman, who died of
cancer two years ago. His fellow cops would say that Sylvester lives up
to Freeman's legacy.
One Way Out
By Robert Zink
Today’s New York City police officer can’t wait to do the 20 years and move on to greener pastures. One cop and his wife found a creative — and potentially lucrative — means to that desirable end.
Your Pension Questions
Answered
By Joseph Maccone
A useful and much-requested primer on how your NYPD pension is calculated.
Why Arrest Quotas are Wrong
By Michael Murray
A comprehensive analysis of how the much-denied but much-promoted practice
is bad for the public, bad for the department and — most significantly
— bad for police officers.
IN THE LINE OF DUTY ...
Transit Police Officer Joseph Keegan
(January 16, 1939 - June 19, 1980)
He had a lot to live for that day 25 years ago — and then he ran into a murderer, who now wants to be freed.
extra added attractions ...
PBA Photo-Ops
War-torn Iraq and the mean streets of New York are among the
scenes where PBA members do their part. Their participation is sometimes
recorded in photographs.
A Hero's Farewell
PBA President Pat Lynch pays his final respects to P.O. William
Rivera.
Green With Envy
As always, the PBA executive board was its traditional marching
self in the St. Patrick’s Day parade, and this was one of the many
pleasant sights that greeted them along the Emerald Way (Fifth Avenue
to you).
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