Regarding Rudy Giuliani’s presidential candidacy, PBA president
Patrick J. Lynch said:
“The inability to keep veteran cops on the job or to recruit
adequate numbers of new ones can be traced directly back 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 three and a half 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. Today,
there are simply not enough NYPD police officers to keep this
city safe, and it is his fault.
Giuliani has wrapped himself firmly in the cloak of 9/11 for
his own political purposes. But the real heroes of 9/11,
those who helped to evacuate those towers and lived to tell the
tale and all those who participated in the recovery and cleanup,
know the truth. Rudy Giuliani has no real credentials as
a terrorism fighter. His only credentials lie in managing
the cleanup after a terror attack. The New York City Patrolmen’s
Benevolent Association could never support Rudy Giuliani for
any elected office."
