The PBA president is quoted in the NY Post, Daily News, and abc7ny.com: "This was yet another brazen crime of the kind that has been happening to families all across the city. But this time, it happened to the family of our fallen hero. P.O. Wenjian Liu gave his life protecting all New Yorkers from victimization and fear. To honor his legacy, we can't let our city keep sliding backward.”
The PBA president is quoted in the NY Post: “It’s outrageous and despicable. Not only did this cop-killer get paroled, but now he gets a seat at the table to help dismantle a police department. Did anybody expect him to be fair and open-minded in his review? The entire process has trampled on the ideals that police officers like Robert Walsh upheld.” Also covered on WOR radio.
NY Post, NBC 4, and WOR radio cover the Brooklyn attack on an officer's personal vehicle. Pat Lynch reminds all officers — once again — to check their vehicles constantly. "We are working in an extremely dangerous environment right now, and need to remain alert."
The PBA president is quoted in the Daily News, the Chief, CNN, New York 1, News 12 Brooklyn, 1010 WINS Radio, and WCBS-AM Radio: “New Yorkers are getting shot and police officers are out on the street, all day and all night, trying to stop the bloodshed,” Lynch said. “Where are these City Council members? Safe at home, hiding behind their screens and dreaming up new ways to give criminals a free pass. It won’t get better unless New Yorkers shame the politicians into doing their job.”
The PBA president is quoted in the NY Times: "Heaping blame on police departments while ignoring the criminals who used protests as cover for planned and coordinated violence almost guarantees a repeat of the chaos we saw last summer."
The PBA president is quoted on New York 1, CBS 2 News, Fox 5 News, NBC 4 News, WINS radio, and in the Daily News: “Our cops on the street warned us that it was happening. We warned the politicians that this won’t work. Violence will rise. And it has.”
The PBA president is quoted on NBC 4 TV, CBS 2 TV, ABC 7 TV, New York 1, CBS radio, and in the Daily News and the Chief-Leader, saying cops need to be paid a “fair market wage.” He added: “Our public sector union brothers and sisters should be very concerned about the mayor’s plan to tamper with civil service laws that protect most city and state workers.” he said. “If police officers can be suspended indefinitely without due process and stripped of their pensions, why not teachers or nurses?”
The PBA president is quoted in the Daily News: “New York City police officers are already laboring under a two-decade-deep pile of supposed ‘reforms’ that do nothing to help us keep New Yorkers safe. Most of the proposals in Mayor de Blasio’s latest report can be thrown on that pile.”
The PBA president is quoted in the Chief-Leader: “They sent police officers out with nothing but mixed messages and no support, then tried to blame us for their failures. We have zero confidence that the city will provide that perspective or adequately represent police officers’ rights. That’s why it’s important for the PBA to join as a party to these suits.”
The PBA president is quoted in the Daily News: “There is absolutely no reason that these convicted cop-killers should be put back on the street. The family of hero P.O. Charles Davis is devastated by the possibility that nobody will be held accountable for his murder.”
The PBA president is quoted in the Daily News, ABC7 TV and News 12 Long Island: “This video is chilling and difficult to watch. But it makes one thing clear — police officers Wells and Murphy saved their lives. They saved the lives of that domestic violence victim and her children, and they saved each other’s lives — all because they had the training, skill and courage of New York City police officers.”
The PBA president is quoted in the NY Post and the Daily News: “We have zero confidence that the city will provide that perspective or adequately represent police officers’ rights. That’s why it’s important for the PBA to join as a party to these suits.”
The PBA president is quoted in the NY Post: “It’s bad enough that this hero family has to live in fear of what might happen when P.O. Ryman’s killers hit the streets. But to swallow that fear while they watch their father’s sacrifice be devalued and disrespected by the state of New York — that is cruel and unusual punishment,” Lynch said.
The PBA president is quoted in the NY Post, Daily News, NBC 4 TV and WINS radio: “After a week of outcry over the chaos in the subway, these cops were doing exactly what was asked of them: enforcing the transit system rules. For their efforts, they were spat on, attacked, thrown down a flight of stairs, and one police officer nearly had his ear ripped off. None of that assault was shown in the partial video circulating online, because the pro-criminal crowd doesn’t want you to know how truly dangerous the subways have become — even for police officers.”
The PBA president is quoted in Newsday: "We can’t talk about changing the NYPD residency requirements without talking about police officers’ pay … Requiring them to live in the city and shoulder its sky-high cost of living on a below-market salary will hurt NYPD recruitment efforts, not improve them."
The PBA president is quoted in The Chief: “The unfettered release of police personnel records will allow unstable people to target police officers and our families for harassment or worse,” Mr. Lynch said following Legislators’ votes in June. “A dangerous cop-hater only needs a police officer's name, linked to a few false or frivolous complaints, to be inspired to commit violence.”
On WABC radio, Pat Lynch covers topics from crime and mental health issues to what constitutes leadership.
The PBA president is quoted in the Daily News calling her “yet another ideologue peddling the false choice between caring for our communities and keeping them safe.” See full press release.
The PBA president is quoted in the Daily News, Staten Island Advance, CBS 2 News, and 1010 WINS Radio: “Police officers want to see fairness and consistency in the NYPD disciplinary process. Mayor de Blasio’s use of the NYPD disciplinary matrix as a political prop is the direct opposite of that goal. Rather than allowing police discipline to follow the facts, he is chasing the news cycle and, once again, making it harder for cops to do our job.”
The PBA president is quoted in the NY Post: “After eight years as a citywide elected official, it’s amazing how little Comptroller Stringer knows about the nature of crime and violence on our streets. It’s not the plan our city needs to stop the current bloodshed.”
The PBA president is quoted in City Limits: “Every pension fund trustee has a fiduciary responsibility to act in the best interest of the fund beneficiaries for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits. Simply put, the money in the pension fund does not belong to us, nor to the comptroller, nor to the mayor. It belongs to the active and retired police officers who have worked and sacrificed to earn their pensions. Our views on any social or political issue cannot enter into the equation. The same is true for the elected officials who sit on the board."
As wounded officer Daniel Vargas leaves the hospital, giving a thumbs up to cheering cops, Pat Lynch asks, "Why do perps feel so bold that they can carry that weapon with impunity and, more importantly, to use it?” Covered on ABC 7 News, News 12 The Bronx, and WABC Radio.
The PBA president is quoted in the Daily News and the NY Times, and on Fox 5 News, NBC 4 News, New York 1, PIX 11 News, WABC Radio, WCBS Radio, and 1010 WINS Radio : “Policing is simple. Good guys and bad guys. We’re the good guys that go after the bad guys.… It seems like people are getting numb to the fact that cops are getting shot.”
The NY Post quotes PBA President Pat Lynch: “We can’t talk about changing the NYPD residency requirements without talking about police officers’ pay. Requiring them to live in the city and shoulder its sky-high cost of living on a below-market salary will hurt recruitment efforts, not improve them.”
The Daily News and WINS report on proposal to equip officers with Tasers. “Cops need less-lethal force options to keep violent encounters from spiraling out of control, but politicians keep stripping those tools away ... Tasers are the one tool the [City Council] has embraced," said Lynch.
The PBA president is quoted by the NY Post, Daily News and Newsday: “Police Officer Isaacs has already been acquitted by a jury of his peers and cleared by the NYPD Force Investigation Division. This attempt to take a third bite at the apple has nothing to do with justice. We’re confident that another impartial review of the facts will clear him once again.” See full statement.
News 12 The Bronx reports on an addition to police offers' duties: vaccinations. See more pictures on the PBA's Twitter account.
The PBA president tells Fox 5 NY News: "It's no surprise that New York City police officers are coming in on their days off to vaccinate our communities. Whenever New Yorkers’ need help and City Hall can’t figure out another solution, the responsibility lands on us. We step up, we get the job done right and we help people — that's what cops do." See full press release.
The PBA president is quoted in the NY Post: “Gov. Cuomo acknowledged that police officers did not create New York City’s policing policies — City Hall and 1 Police Plaza did. He acknowledged that those policies are not only driving a wedge between cops and our communities — they are preventing us from keeping those communities safe.”
The PBA president is quoted in the NY Post, Daily News, NY Times, The Chief, Politico, Fox 5 News, NBC 4 News, News 12 Long Island, News 12 Westchester, WMBC TV, NewsNation, New York 1, PIX 11 TV, WCBS radio, 1010 WINS radio, and NPR radio: “We will say it again: what we witnessed in June was a failure of New York City's leadership. They sent cops out to police unprecedented protests and violent riots with no plan, no strategy and no support.”
The NY Post quotes the PBA president: “It’s absurd to keep police officers waiting for the vaccine while there are unused doses available,” PBA President Patrick Lynch said. “If others have passed up the opportunity, let us take it.”
The PBA president, noting that officers work side-by-side with health care workers in handling people infected with Covid-19, is quoted in articles in Newsday and SI Live and on CBS 2 News, 1010 WINS news, and CBS radio news: "When we respond to emergency scenes or hospital wards," he said, "we need the same vaccine protection."