Thirty-two years ago a hardened criminal named Salvatore “Crazy Sal” Desarno murdered police officer Cecil “Frank” Sledge in Canarsie’s 69th Precinct.  Crazy Sal was out on parole for an armed robbery when he shot the officer during a car stop and then ran him over dragging the officer for a quarter mile leaving him dead in the street.  Desarno is up for parole again this week and the PBA is seeking the help of the law-abiding public to deny parole to all cop-killers by expressing their wishes ...

PBA members turned out to show solidarity with their fellow essential workers by distributing hand sanitizer during the morning rush today at the Parkchester 6 Train Station in the Bronx.  SEE VIDEO. (Remarks by PBA Treasurer Pat Hendry at 1:15) PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said:  “New York City police officers have been on the streets and in our transit system every day during this crisis, but we haven’t been alone. Our fellow essential employees are right here with us, taking trains, sub...

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After an unprecedented super-majority of New York City Council Members came together last week to demand a fair market wage for New York City police officers, the PBA has launched a new campaign to make sure its members know which Council Members are standing with them in this fight. Beginning today, the PBA will distribute posters (see samples below) to be displayed on union bulletin boards in every NYPD precinct, transit district and Housing police service area across the five boroughs, call...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch today demanded more police officers, better equipment, improved station house design and secured hospital facilities to treat prisoners in order to reduce the potential for escape from police custody. "Given the serious shortage of police officers, the lousy equipment and horribly designed police and hospital facilities, it is a testimony to the good work of police officers that so few prisoners have escaped," Lynch said.  "We are calling on NYPD management to be...

The PBA president is quoted in the Daily News: “Cops aren’t ‘hiding out’ — they are burned out. We’re almost 7,000 police officers short of our peak staffing. We’re losing more than 230 cops a month, and hiring is not keeping up with attrition. Shuffling cops’ assignments or squeezing them for even more mandatory overtime is only going to drive more away. The city should be investing in attracting and retaining the finest police officers, not blaming them for the staffing problems management cr...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “Today’s announcement is the culmination of years of working with the City Council and the Mayor’s office to ensure that our members have the best protection by bullet resistant vests available as they do the dangerous work of protecting the city.  We’ve been fighting for a replacement and upgrade system since the Council approved funding for the level 3A vests with the side panels in 2006.  We are grateful that the Mayor and Speaker heard our urgent call...

The Finest and the Bravest – men and women – will lace up boxing gloves for charity in a 13 fight card that will feature police officer Mike Wheeler, of the 60 Pct., and his brother Firefighter Brian Wheeler, of Ladder 170, representing their departments in separate fights at the “Heroes All” boxing tournament at Brooklyn Cyclones Stadium on Sept. 19, 2002 at 7 PM. Also on the slate are Police Officer Kim Shafidiya of the 75 Pct. and Firefighter Francesca Smith of Ladder 18 fighting for the wo...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “New York City police officers did not ask for NYPD-issued smartphones — we were ordered to carry and use them. We are now required to document every minute of our tour on these phones. Every form we are required to fill out and every alert we receive comes through the phone. If there’s a problem with cops using the phone on duty, NYPD management should change the policies and go back to pen and paper.”

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said  of Operation All Out:  “Operation All Out is a clear and unambiguous admission that the NYPD does not have enough police officers on patrol to curb gun violence, control crime and keep the City safe.  It is a last ditch, band-aid response to the escalating gun violence and disorder in this City.  City Hall has ignored the dramatically diminished staffing in the NYPD for well over a decade and now this administration is left to fix the problem.  Hiring mor...

The family of an off-duty New York City police officer slain execution-style in a botched robbery 40 years ago is launching a statewide letter-writing campaign to bar the officer’s paroled killer from any further involvement in crafting policing policy, after learning that he recently helped draft Ithaca’s police reform plan. Richard Rivera, who was freed two years ago in a disgraceful wave of cop-killer releases approved by the state parole board, was one of a quintet of robbery-minded, maske...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said:  “The citizens of this City expect our police officers to be responsive to their complaints and to take action when there is a violation of law.  At times, when officers are required to make an arrest, they must employ the use of force in order to get compliance from an individual who NYPD policy requires must be rear-cuffed for transport to a precinct. Force, by its very nature, is an ugly thing to witness.  Taken out of the context of what is happening,...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “Police officers are entitled, like anyone else, to due process.  It is our job to ensure that every officer who is accused has the same opportunity to defend him or herself as any other American.  We have defended police officers from rush to judgments in the past, we are defending them today and we will continue to defend them long into the future.”

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New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) president Pat Lynch had intended to lobby the US Senate on Tuesday, Nov. 16th, for the passage of the 9/11 Health and Compensation act (the Zadroga Bill) but instead will attend the funeral of veteran police officer David Mahmoud, 49, of the 75 Precinct who died of a very rare and particularly hideous, disfiguring form of cancer after working over 60 hours at and around Ground Zero. “Tomorrow, we will bury yet another unsung hero, Police O...

Detectives’ Endowment Association (DEA) president Michael J. Palladino and Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association president Patrick J. Lynch called for the immediate removal of Queens Supreme Court Justice Laura Blackburne from the bench and for a criminal investigation into her facilitation of the escape from her courtroom of a suspected violent felon being sought by detectives. DEA president Michael Palladino said: “Judge Blackburne’s actions were shocking but not surprising given her long hist...

Campaign launching tomorrow calls on New Yorkers to contact their elected officials The Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) will air a new radio commercial (listen here) starting tomorrow calling on the public to help stop the pro-criminal agenda that is making the streets more dangerous for police officers and civilians alike. The spot — which will air on more than a dozen local stations between tomorrow, March 10, and Monday, March 16 – highlights the revolving-d...

Family members of NYPD Police Officer Anthony Dwyer, who fatally plummeted from a Midtown roof in 1989 while struggling with a robbery suspect, were forced to reopen their wounds for a third time in just over a year to keep his killer behind bars. VIDEO OF PBA PRESS CONFERENCE The Dwyer family — including his parents and three siblings — appeared at the New York State Parole Board’s Manhattan office today to deliver their victim impact statements opposing the parole of P.O. Dwyer’s killer, Ed...

PBA President Patrick Hendry is quoted in the NY Post and on News 12, Brooklyn: : Hendry called the review board “a rogue agency staffed with anti-police activists on a mission to eradicate any form of effective, proactive policing in New York City. Their ultimate goal is to take full control of the NYPD and drive talented police officers away from this job. Unfortunately, they’re succeeding.”

Today, a Manhattan State Supreme Court judge granted the NYC PBA’s request for a temporary restraining order to prevent the NYPD from releasing ‘de-identified’ summaries containing information from police officers’ personnel records. PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said:  “The demand for ‘transparency’ doesn't trump the law or the safety of New York City police officers. The NYPD knows full well that even ‘de-identified’ personnel records can be exploited to harm police officers. We have seen ...

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A New York City police officer who, in saving a woman’s life, inspired her 10-year-old son to begin thinking of becoming a cop himself was among the 37 police officers and three sergeants honored today (Thursday, Nov. 21) at the PBA's traditional ‘Finest of the Finest’ luncheon at which the police union’s 24,000 members honor their peers. Also among those cited were the officers who prevented the man who committed the August 2012 grudge killing outside the Empire State Building from taking mor...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “These inexperienced amateurs have no idea that they're doing the City's bidding and will end up hurting our members by leading our elected officials to believe that the inferior overall benefits of the Tier 6 pension plan, including the reduction of 3% of police officers’ take home pay,  are acceptable to New York City police officers. The City has a moral obligation to protect and support police officers who are injured in its service. We are asking our...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “We are disappointed in the National Academy of Arbitrators' lack of interest in protecting the honor and integrity of their profession. This decision only serves to protect a skewed system that favors employers who can dole out lucrative future arbitration work. It also sends a message to working people everywhere that those who dare to speak out against an unjust outcome will be either ignored or pressured into silence.”

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said:  “Is there any doubt who is in charge in this city now? The criminal mob is dictating their terms to the NYPD brass and district attorneys, who are tripping over themselves to comply. Police officers want to know: What are we still doing out here? Why are our leaders sending us out to enforce laws they don’t believe in? And what are we supposed to tell the New Yorkers who are watching us retreat while violence overwhelms their streets?”

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA) continued its tradition of spreading joy to needy families in the form of hundreds of toys to needy families of Far Rockaway, Queens and Brownsville, Brooklyn and a holiday party and hot food to needy families in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The first PBA toy delivery of the day was at the Church of the Nazarene in Far Rockaway which was devastated and still feels the effects of hurricane Sandy. Then it was off to the Brownsville...

The proposed federal legislation presently named for deceased NYC police detective James Zadroga will ultimately make it more difficult, and in many cases impossible, for World Trade Center (WTC) responders to receive treatment for illnesses resulting from exposure at the site, PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said today. The bill, which will be the subject of congressional hearings before the Energy and Commerce committee tomorrow (Wednesday, April 22nd) in Washington, erects a burden of proo...

With 4,500 fewer police officers on city streets than in 1999 and with the department’s inability to retain veteran officers and attract qualified new ones, the New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association opposes the use of PILOTS (payment in lieu of taxes) that support the city’s operating budget to build a stadium on the West side of Manhattan, PBA president Patrick J. Lynch announced today. Lynch said: “Given the severe recruiting and retention problem that exists in the NYPD because N...

PBA President Patrick Hendry is quoted in amNY: “As difficult as it is at face value, just losing an officer and a father. Even more unbearable, is that he almost made it to graduation. We’re going to continue to try to find out what happened that day and be there for this family.”

Patrick Hendry demands change in the criminal justice system. "Why was this dangerous criminal out on the streets?" he demanded to know. His remarks were covered on New York 1, Pix 11 News, ABC 7 News, and News 12 Brooklyn.

While away at college in Florida, Joshua Evans, son of NYPD Sergeant Lillian Leslie-Evans, was rushed to the hospital where he underwent emergency surgery to repair bleeding on his brain. He is currently in a Florida hospital on life support. Click here to find out how you can help.

PBA President Patrick Hendry is quoted on 1010 WINS and in Gothamist: “This study confirms once again that the NYPD’s staffing crisis has become a vicious cycle. Cops are frustrated, burned out and leaving in droves, which only makes the workload more unsustainable for the cops who remain.”

PBA President Patrick Hendry is quoted in Newsday: "This study confirms once again that the NYPD’s staffing crisis has become a vicious cycle. Cops are frustrated, burned out and leaving in droves, which only makes the workload more unsustainable for cops who remain."

PBA President Patrick Hendry is quoted in the NY Post: “Far too many routine calls are turning into all-out brawls, and the reason is obvious: our justice system keeps releasing the same violent, repeat offenders, and they keep attacking cops when we try to lock them up again.”

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said:  “Rank-and-file New York City police officers were out on the street last night doing our job. Tonight, we’ll go out and do it again. It’s not our fault that our city and state governments can’t plan and work together, but we are suffering the consequences. Police officers are being run down, knocked down and almost shot on a nightly basis. The political tug of war between Albany and City Hall needs to stop, because it is putting police officers in danger.”

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “It was clear from the outset that City Hall and 1 Police Plaza were going to leave P.O. Garcia holding the bag for their own failures. We warned them that sending cops out to enforce their half-baked public health policies would create a backlash — they didn’t listen, and now a yet another police officer’s career has been cut short by politics. Is it any wonder that thousands of cops are heading out the door before the same thing happens to them?”

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: "Frankly, I am disgusted with the double talk coming out of this City Council.  They praise police with words and then take actions that clearly demonstrate their true lack of support for the very people who protect them and make their communities safe. Civilian complaints are not worth the paper they are written on because anyone can file the most baseless, sensational complaint without fear of penalty if their complaint is proven to be false. Other juri...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “It is our firm belief that Lilo Brancato is guilty of the murder of police officer Daniel Enchautegui even though he was only convicted of attempted burglary.  Even while incarcerated, this lowlife thug showed his true colors when he beat up a fellow inmate who wouldn’t get off a pay phone quickly enough.  As the system prepares to release him on parole, this union will take any steps necessary to ensure that this miscreant follows the conditions of his ...

The PBA president is quoted in the NY Post, Daily News, NY Times, Newsday, amNY and Gothamist : “The PBA has been calling for new appointments to CCRB’s board who can instill fairness in its decision-making processes and bring it in line with its City Charter mandate. Unfair treatment at CCRB doesn’t just destroy police officers’ morale — it jeopardizes public safety by driving even more cops out of the NYPD amid the ongoing staffing crisis.”

The PBA president is quoted in the Daily News and on NBC 4 News: “His actions put our police officers and everyone in that subway station in a horrible, dangerous situation. He is solely responsible for all of the harm caused in this incident. Our hearts go out to the injured civilians and their families. This dangerous career criminal needs to be held accountable for all the pain he has caused.”

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “Once again, the anti-cop activists at CCRB are trying to pin the blame on individual police officers for management failures and the chaos created by violent agitators. We are still awaiting ‘accountability’ for the city leaders who sent us out with no plan and no support, and for the criminals who injured more than 400 of our brothers and sisters.”

PBA President Patrick Hendry said:  “We’re thankful that our brother is going to recover, but this incident highlights the dangerous environment on our streets, not just for police officers but for all New Yorkers. These two repeat offenders didn’t think twice about attacking a cop and trying to grab his gun. What will happen if our dysfunctional justice system spits them back out onto the streets again?”

PBA President Patrick Hendry said: “The video clearly shows that this individual repeatedly brandished a deadly knife on the subway, threatened to kill our police officers and then lunged at them with that knife. His actions put our police officers and everyone in that subway station in a horrible, dangerous situation. He is solely responsible for all the harm caused in this incident. Our hearts go out to the injured civilians and their families. This dangerous career criminal needs to be hel...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said:  “The root of this problem can be traced to a police staffing shortage. These bikers come out in droves, and our officers are expected to corral them without enough manpower to do the job. This is just another quality-of-life issue created by under-staffing. The situation is seriously hazardous to our members and a threat to public safety. These officers were injured and ordinary civilians are equally at risk of injury or worse. To solve this problem our ...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said:  “New York City police officers’ hearts are heavy with the news of FDNY Battalion Chief Michael J. Fahy's death in the line of duty this morning. Out of respect for Chief Fahy's heroic sacrifice, the PBA will be suspending the demonstrations planned for this week until after our fallen brother is laid to rest.”

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “Given that many, if not most, of the lawsuits filed against NYC police officers are baseless, frivolous and only filed to make a quick buck, we don’t see where there is any validity to using them in evaluating the actions of individual officers.  The increase in lawsuits is easily explained by the City’s past practice of settling baseless cases by doling out cash instead of fighting them in court.  Using lawsuit data to review police performance will be ...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “Once again, the Mayor conjures up yet another disability proposal out of thin air that is inadequate and shortsighted. For 75 years, police officers and firefighters accepted the extreme risks of their jobs knowing that they and their families would be cared for should they suffer a permanently disabling injury. Anything less that the full restoration of the Tier 2 disability benefits is inadequate and will not provide the assurance that we need to take ...

PBA president Lynch said: “Hiring 1,000 new police officers is a drop in the bucket since we have lost nearly 7,000 since since 2001. Under staffing not only empowers criminals, but it leads management to make bad policy decisions like quotas for police activities in an effort to compensate for the shortage. The City should fill the new Police Academy now and keep filling it until we reach Safe Streets, Safe City levels of staffing before crime gets out of control.”

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “Tom Sullivan was a third generation police officer who had union blood coursing through his veins.  He was a man of great integrity who literally spent his life in the service of others.  Tom was the type of man who would do anything he could to help someone out but never asked for anything in return.  Our prayers and thoughts are with his wife, Marie, and their family.  Tom Sullivan’s life was a life well spent and he will be sorely missed.”

Pat Lynch said:  "There is no doubt that dangerously low numbers of police officers on our streets have led to an increase in shootings and murders. The lack of uniformed police officers patrolling neighborhoods has emboldened the criminals who once again feel free to carry guns and use them in their crimes. These ominous statistics can be the start of the downward spiral that leads us to the dangerous conditions that chase good families and businesses out of the city. Short changing the NYP...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “Mayor de Blasio has apparently learned nothing over the past six years about the extremely damaging impact of anti-police rhetoric on both cops and the communities we serve. The hostile and dangerous environment we now face on the street is a direct result of the demonization of cops by de Blasio and other elected officials. By rolling out that rhetoric again on a national stage, it’s clear he wants to take the country down the same path.”

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “New York City absolutely cannot balance its budget on the backs of its workers, especially police officers. Before this pandemic, crime was spiraling out of control. Now our entire social fabric is under tremendous strain, and police officers are already stretched thin trying to maintain order. If we cut cops, there will be chaos instead of a recovery.”

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “Once again, Mayor de Blasio and the NYPD brass are sacrificing cops to save their own skin. They created the failed strategy for managing these demonstrations. They sent police officers out to do the job with no support and no clear plan. They should be the ones facing this mob-rule justice. We will say it again: New York City police officers have been abandoned by our leadership. We are utterly alone in our efforts to protect our city.”

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “This is what happens when elected officials play political games with police department operations. Our top talent in all ranks is being driven out the door and public safety is suffering. City Hall’s amateur-hour meddling has left the NYPD broken, almost beyond repair. We wish Chief Pichardo a long, happy and successful retirement. Wherever he goes next, they will be getting one of our finest.”

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “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.”

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “Once again, CCRB is carrying political water for Mayor de Blasio and others who are trying to wash away their own failures during last summer’s protests. Police officers were sent out with no plan, no strategy and no support, into a dangerous environment created by politicians’ irresponsible rhetoric. As a result, dozens of cops were injured, and now dozens more are being made into scapegoats. It’s time for the NYPD to stop allowing CCRB to use its discipl...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “If New Yorkers want to know why the chaos in the transit system is not improving more quickly — this is why. The criminals underground know they can get in a brawl, choke a cop and be back out in hours. Cops are putting ourselves on the line to make the subways safer, but we are feeling abandoned by a justice system that won’t back us up.”

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said:  “The NYPD needs to decide whether enforcing quality of life issues is really a priority. These police officers and cops across the city have been told to prioritize getting illegal bikes and ATVs off the streets, because the community is sick of them. They should not be punished for doing the job they were sent out to do.”

If you are a veteran struggling with PTSD, or if you know one who is, one of your fellow vets is standing ready to help. Korea War veteran Richard Jarcho and his family use the horses on their Orangeburg, NY farm to provide treatment and rehabilitation for PTSD survivors. The service is free to both veterans and active-duty service members.  Visit Veterans Angels of Hope to find out more.

The PBA president is quoted in the NY Times, Daily News and Newsday and on WINS radio and CBS 2 News: “Police officers are still too often second-guessed and penalized for doing the job we were sent out to do. This never-ending monitorship has had over a decade to address the department’s policies and procedures in this area, but the answer always seems to come back to hammering the cops on the streets.”

PBA President Patrick Hendry is quoted in the Daily News and on Fox 5 News and 1010 WINS: “I spoke to (the officer) the other day, and he told me what he went through for the last year and a half. Three surgeries, constant physical therapy. He said to me, the things that were once routine are no longer routine. He relied on others to do the basic things in life — get out of bed, change his clothes.”

The PBA president is quoted in the NY Post: “This notorious person who started this is still out and still hiding to this day. And to make matters worse, he’s not hiding alone — he’s hiding with one of the most notorious cop killers in the United States. It doesn’t matter how long it takes, doesn’t matter if it’s 20 years, 50 years, 100 years, there is no expiration on justice.”

PBA President Patrick Hendry is quoted in the Daily News: “From the very beginning of the stop, question and frisk case, police officers on the street have been saddled with most of the blame and punishment for a problem we didn’t create. The monitor should focus its attention on the NYPD’s management and supervisors, rather than the police officers who are carrying out their directives.”

The PBA president is quoted in amNY:  “We’re glad that this vicious cop-basher is staying behind bars, but a few years in jail aren’t going to change him. He attacked two New York City police officers while he was out on supervised release for a previous crime. He has zero respect for the law and cannot be allowed back on our streets. If he’s in the country illegally, he needs to be deported immediately upon completing his sentence.”

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “Police officer Veve is a guy who not only lit up a room when he comes in, but he is the spirit of his command, he’s a top-notch police officer. You see that by how he was doing his job yesterday.  He was out on the street while the rest of us were sleeping making it safe, but unfortunately now he is in a hospital bed. “What’s wrong here is that a 15 year old with a long rap sheet was on the street at all. He was locked up just the middle of May and he w...

Patrick J. Lynch, president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) today came out strongly in opposition to Mayor Bloomberg’s controversial congestion-pricing plan, saying that it would be tantamount to a $2,000 pay cut for New York City¹s police officers who work in the designated area. “Eight dollars a day, five days a week comes to $2,000 over the course of a year — and that’s just too much to ask of the men and women who risk their lives fighting crime and terrorism in this city,”...

PBA President Patrick Hendry is quoted in NY Post: “Shame on these anonymous cop-haters who are hiding behind their computer screens and posting this photo of our injured sister in her most difficult moment. This entire site is an underhanded attempt to smear cops in order to sabotage their personal lives and post-NYPD employment prospects. If the people behind this site don’t see a problem with pumping out unfounded allegations and unflattering photos of police officers, they should subject th...

NYC PBA President Patrick Hendry said: “A leadership change at CCRB is very welcome news for hard-working police officers who have had their careers derailed by anti-police activists on CCRB’s board. The PBA has been calling for new appointments to CCRB's board who can instill fairness in its decision-making processes and bring it in line with its City Charter mandate. Unfair treatment at CCRB doesn't just destroy police officers’ morale — it jeopardizes public safety by driving even more cops...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “This union has been warning about the dangers of police quotas for over a decade.  We achieved changes to the law that made quotas for any police action illegal because removing discretion from a police officer results in poor relations with the community. New York City police officers have the same right and obligation to speak out against unjust or unfair policies as any other citizen.  This decision comes at an important time because despite managemen...

The NYPD recently disseminated a directive of the federal courts via a Finest Message directing police officers to change how they fight crime in apartment buildings that were part of Operation Clean Halls. PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “This is effectively the end of the successful ‘Clean Halls’ program.  The courts have given those with criminal intent the right to loiter in places that they have no legitimate reason to be.  The court is protecting the rights of criminals while bla...

PBA president Lynch said: “With the CCRB's contact information prominently listed on the back, these receipts are clearly designed to invite retaliatory complaints against police officers who make an active effort to prevent crime and take guns off the street.  They are just one more item on the ever-growing list of anti-public-safety measures that will put an end to proactive policing in this city and ultimately accelerate the increase in crime and disorder that we are already seeing in our...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “We are still waiting for our elected leaders to do something, anything to rein in the dysfunctional and out-of-control CCRB. This is an agency that casually and recklessly leaks information in violation of State law, and routinely oversteps its authority to ruin police officers' careers based on mere allegations of misconduct.  When police officers are accused of the type of conduct to which Mr. Darche admitted, they don’t get promoted — their careers ar...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “This bill is unnecessary.  There are already state laws — enacted with great care and consideration — that govern the use of any kind of force by police officers.  The Council’s meddling and uninformed proposals will prevent police officers from taking the actions that they reasonably believe they should to secure the situation in encounters with potentially armed and dangerous suspects. These proposals will endanger both the police and the public alike....

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “I call on Mayor deBlasio and the City Council to immediately replace Mitchell G. Taylor as a member of the Civilian Complaint Review Board because, as a graphic video makes clear, he hasn’t the judgment or the temperament to pass fair judgment on the actions of New York City police officers. The video of his assault on hotel employees shows that he cannot control simple disputes without resorting to violence, ­events that the average officer encounters d...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said:  “Our sympathies and prayers go out to the family and friends of Mr. Garner.  Police Officers don’t start their days expecting or wanting something like this to occur in the performance of their duties. The ME’s report indicates that Mr. Garner was a man with serious health problems so there will have to be a complete and thorough analysis of all the factors that played a part in this tragedy.   We believe, however, that if he had not resisted the lawful ...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said:  “The PBA is always supportive of training that will improve safety and help us be better at our jobs.  We need equipment, training and staffing in order to function effectively.  What we don’t need is training that only tells us what we can’t do when a person resists arrest.  Our members (NYC police officers) need effective, clear and precise instruction regarding how to safely arrest an individual who is physically resisting that takes our officers out ...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said:   “Rashun Robinson shot police officer James Li three times to avoid a fare beating arrest because he was carrying an illegal firearm and was wanted for an outstanding drug warrant in Pennsylvania.  He made a ridiculous claim to investigators that he had a right to defend himself and that he hated cops.  Today, a Brooklyn criminal court judge threw out a motion to dismiss the charges so now this wannabe cop-killer can try to peddle his lame excuses to a j...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “In the eyes of the law Morales and Santos are cop-killers every much as the low-life shooter, Lamont Pride, who pulled the trigger and ended the life of a fine police officer and family man. If they hadn’t been out to rob a drug dealer on that fateful evening, then Peter Figoski would be alive today. The PBA fervently hopes that they will be found guilty and given the maximum sentence. We want these killers to understand that when you attack one of us yo...

Michael Velez, the driver who was acquitted of all charges in the murder of PO Peter Figoski, was convicted of probation violations in a previous crime was sentenced to two years of incarceration (one of which he already served awaiting trial in the Figoski murder) and three years probation.  In reaction to this sentence, PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “The revolving door of justice continues to spin and, in a year, it will spit out this misfit to return to his life of crime.  The jury...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “Like most NYC police officers, Larry DePrimo joined the force to help people. His spontaneous act of kindness to a less fortunate man is just one of thousands of random acts of kindness that police officers routinely do to help someone in need. It’s not unusual for an officer to dip into his or her own pocket or to reach out to help secure aid for someone in need. It happens all of the time and it is usually unseen. We commend Larry and all of his brothe...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “This cold blooded cop-killer tells two entirely different stories in an attempt to worm his way out of spending the rest of his life in prison.  The truth is much more likely to be that while committing a crime, he saw a police officer and shot him in cold blood simply to get away.  This despicable thug shows no remorse or concern for anyone but himself.   He should never be allowed to walk the streets of New York City again and this union will do everyt...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said:  “Guns and violence are out of control.  The last thing this city should plan to do for the future is to reduce the staffing of the NYPD which has already been stripped to the bone in our local neighborhood precincts.  Staffing cuts over the past ten years have left our ranks overworked and demoralized.  Government’s first and most important responsibility is to keep its citizens safe and, given the increase in violent felonies and homicides, it is clear ...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “Under direct orders to stop and arrest any individual who violated the law by creating a dangerous situation for the public and police, this officer observed the reckless actions of a specific individual weaving in and out of traffic and creating a hazardous condition for the public and took action.  You will note in the video that instead of slowing down or stopping as any reasonable person would when the officer approached, this rider dropped his shoul...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said in reaction to the indictment of police officer Raphael Lora: “This off-duty officer took action to protect his community from an obviously dangerous drunk 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 to protect his own life and to prevent possible injury to others.  We can only speculate about what might have happened if this out of control dru...

PBA President Pat Lynch said: "With this order, the NYPD is going out of its way to undermine its own public safety mission. After helping to push the Right to Know Act through the City Council over the PBA’s opposition, the NYPD is now going beyond even those misguided mandates to encourage the filing of meritless complaints against police officers. They are also opening the floodgates for anti-police advocates to demand the release of footage of every single police action. The environment th...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “The NYPD’s operations — including its disciplinary processes — are already monitored and reviewed more intensely than those of almost any other government agency. But at the end of the day, the Police Commissioner is supposed to have the ultimate authority over the police officers he leads. It’s hard to imagine how yet another team of professional scrutinizers will help him do that job. This new panel will undoubtedly increase the pressure on the NYPD to m...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “Judith Clark is a murderer and a terrorist. Because of her actions, three families have been permanently deprived of husbands, fathers and sons. Those families cannot escape their loss, but Judith Clark will be allowed to escape accountability for her crimes. That is not justice. The New York State Parole Board has proven once again that it does not value the rule of law or the sacrifices of the police officers who uphold those laws. The families of murder...

Pro-Police Candidates Claim House Seats, Strong Leads in State Senate PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “While we wait for every valid ballot to be counted, it is already clear that New Yorkers have rejected the anti-police, anti-public safety extremism of the Democratic Party’s radical wing. They’ve had enough of putting criminals first and crime victims last. They are sick of seeing their police officers abused and undermined. Any Democrat who is disappointed in these results needs to f...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said:  “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. They should be forced to answer for the resulting chaos, instead of pointing fingers at cops on the streets and ignoring the criminals who attacked us with bricks and firebombs.” As part of the Attorney General’s inquiry, the NYC PBA submitted extensive...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “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. But one bit of absurdity stands out: The Mayor says he wants to ‘enhance positive reinforcement’ in the NYPD. Police officers aren’t waiting for a pat on the back from the same elected leaders who are constantly denigratin...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “We have been in touch with a number of mayoral campaigns. We have not offered our endorsement to any candidate, nor have we made any final determination about issuing an endorsement at all. If these candidates want to make the city safer, they need to say — clearly and emphatically — that they will support New York City police officers in our public safety mission. No caveats, no futile attempts to appease anti-cop ideologues. Then, they need to lay out a...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “We continue to have serious concerns about the message these types of policies send to both police officers and criminals on the street. Police officers don’t want to be sent out to enforce laws that the district attorneys won’t prosecute. And there are already too many people who believe that they can commit crimes, resist arrest, interfere with police officers and face zero consequences. We look forward to discussing these issues with District Attorney B...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “True heroes never die. Our brother Police Officer Wilbert Mora has left us, but he will live on in the heart of every New York City police officer from this day forward. We are called upon to put ourselves between evil and the good people of this city. Police Officer Mora showed us what it means to carry out our mission with courage, skill and humanity. His sacrifice will guide us as we continue that mission, but we cannot succeed alone.  We ask you once a...

All cops have a few good "war stories," but the cops who patrolled the wild streets of NYC in the '70s and '80s have more than their fair share. Former 94 Pct PBA Delegate Jack Fitzgerald has recorded his in a new book covering the breadth of his 26-year career, starting with the truncated Academy class that turned out to handle the 1968 riots and continuing through his time in the Tactical Patrol Force, the 75 Pct, the Taxi Truck Surveillance Unit, the 81 Pct, and the 94 Pct. Available on Amaz...

PBA President Patrick Hendry is quoted in the Daily News, NY Post, amNY, ABC 7 News, NBC 4 News, New York 1, and CBS radio. Hendry said the criminal justice system is “failing New Yorkers. When (this officer) responded to that robbery in progress, he confronted this individual and he didn’t know what he was confronting. He didn’t know he was confronting someone who was arrested 17 times…and someone who was arrested seven times while he was on lifetime parole. Why was he out on the street? Each ...

City’s Inflexibility During Mediation Process Included Demands for Dramatic Increases in Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs, Wiping Out Offers of Minor Raises The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) today announced the filing of a request for binding arbitration with the New York State Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) after PERB-supervised mediation produced no progress towards a negotiated contract settlement with the City of New York. The NYC PBA’s deci...

The city’s two largest uniformed unions are joining forces to counter Mayor Bloomberg’s misinformation campaign attacking pensions as the Mayor attempts to renege on a long-standing Variable Supplement Fund (VSF) agreement that was bought and paid for in previous negotiations, it was announced today by PBA president Pat Lynch and UFA president Steve Cassidy. PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “A lie is a lie no matter how many times you say it.  Mayor Bloomberg has orchestrated an out and ou...

PBA President Patrick Lynch and union members gathered at City Hall on Wednesday for a press conference calling on de Blasio to do his job; part of renewed effort to hold de Blasio accountable for inaction   Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) today demanded that Mayor Bill de Blasio do his job and stop stalling New York City police officers’ progress toward a market rate of pay. August 1st marks exactly one year since the expiration of the NYC PBA’s most rece...

The New York State Board of Parole this month denied parole for Tommy Nelson, killer of New York City Police Officer Anthony Abruzzo. But that denial may be short-lived, as Nelson is due to receive another parole hearing in November 2020. PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said:  “We’re glad that this vicious cop-killer will stay behind bars for the time being. But frankly, we have zero faith that the Parole Board will do the right thing when he comes back up for parole in November. After all, th...

During a press conference today regarding crime statistics for the 3rd quarter of 2023, NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri stated that the increase in felony assaults in 2023 is being driven in large part by an increase in assaults on police officers. PBA President Patrick Hendry said: “There is a simple reason that assaults on cops are going up. It’s because anti-police activists — many of them on the public payroll — have normalized violent resistance against police offi...

Today, a Manhattan judge found a 6th Precinct police officer guilty of one count of Assault in the 3rd Degree in connection with a 2021 incident. PBA President Patrick Hendry said: “This verdict will send a chilling message to every police officer. These prosecutors and the court are effectively telling police officers we can’t do our job. The community called the police because this individual was intoxicated and out of control on the streets. When our police officer arrived, he attempted to...

President Patrick J. Lynch said: “Commissioner Bratton should be listening to the police officers who are out on the streets every single day dealing with this troubling decline in the quality of life. If he did, he would hear the same things we heard from our members in our recent survey: 91 percent agree that signs of disorder are growing more prevalent. 97 percent agree police officers are reluctant to take action for fear of lawsuits or complaints. 89 percent agree that quotas are still ...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “Following the senseless assassination of two fine police officers, precautions had to be taken to protect police officers so that they could protect the City’s communities.  Statistics sometimes have to take a back seat to safety but as we saw last night in the 46 Precinct, New York City police officers, who could have closed their lockers and gone home after their shift ended, chose to respond to a robbery in progress and sadly, were shot in the process...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said:  “These results confirm what the PBA found in its own poll of New York City police officers last year. Law enforcement has become more difficult and dangerous than ever before, and police officers across the country feel it every time they go out on patrol. One important difference between New York City police officers and our colleagues elsewhere: while 74 percent of police officers nationwide are satisfied with their Departments as a place to work, New ...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “Students seeking to ban NYC police officers from their campus are blissfully ignorant of the protections that we provide for them but the college’s management is not.  The attitude of students is almost excusable because they lack life experience.  They will learn when they get out in the real world that police officers not only protect the rights of all to voice their opinions, regardless of how ill informed or moronic they may be, but we are the ones w...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “While it is clearly in the best interest of NYC police officers and the general public to keep assault weapons out of wrong hands, there is a serious flaw in this law that runs counter to the safety interests of the public and police officers.  It is our belief that the failure to include a law enforcement exemption was an unintentional oversight brought on by the urgent need to take action in light of the Sandy Hook tragedy.  Experience has shown that t...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “Phillip Copeland was the last of the four mutts convicted in the cold-blooded assassination of Police Officer Edward Byrne to be denied parole.  Officer Byrne was guarding the home of witness in a case against a notorious drug dealer when these four assassins shot him to death behind the wheel of his marked patrol car.  We are grateful to the hundreds of thousands of right-minded citizens who used our union’s website (WWW.NYCPBA.ORG) to express their opp...

Pat Lynch said:  “While we think the mayor made the right decision by ruling out police layoffs next year, that doesn’t mean we won’t be losing more police officers over the next several months through budget cutbacks and attrition. The city is already down 6,000 police officers from its peak years and there’s talk that we’ll be losing at least 2,000 more. We just can’t afford to lose police presence on the streets, especially in tough economic times. Safety is the economic engine that power...

Huge Expenditure for Questionable Results PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said:  “It makes no sense to accelerate the program while there are so many unresolved issues regarding the use of body cams, including the very basic question of whether they actually produce a meaningful change in the interaction between police officers and civilians on the street. The largest, most rigorous study to date suggests they have no such effect. Meanwhile, jurisdictions across the country are confronting i...

Ainsley Johnson was found not guilty of biting off the middle finger of Police Officer Michael Hawk’s left hand during an altercation after Johnson was arrested for allegedly breaking a car’s window PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “This absolutely outrageous verdict demonstrates how little value our society is placing on police officers’ lives and safety.  P.O. Hawk permanently lost part of his finger because he was trying to do his job, using the necessary amount of force to place a res...

New York, NY -- “It is laughable that a mayor who has shown no interest in running New York City for six years now says he wants to mismanage the entire country. While the mayor of our nation’s largest city is busy running around Iowa and getting upstaged by the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, there are real problems here at home. New York City Police officers are continuing to suffer with wages 30% below market rate because the mayor has totally checked out of our contract process.  After six ...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “The DOI report confirms what police officers knew on the first night of riots: our city leaders sent us out with no plan, no strategy and no support to deal with unrest that was fundamentally different from any of the thousands of demonstrations that police officers successfully protect every single year. Nearly 400 police officers were injured — struck with bricks, bottles, fire extinguishers and folding chairs — because of the mixed messages emanating f...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said:  “New Yorkers who are experiencing severe mental illness cannot be left to suffer on our streets and subways. They need to be helped, especially when they are unable to seek or accept help on their own. With that said, we will need to hear more about the role police officers will play in this new plan. We need extremely clear guidance and training on when and how we should compel people to accept help. We need our leaders to back us up when we carry out the...

Tony Tarantino, the father of world famous movie producer Quentin Tarantino, says his son is dead wrong about police officers being murderers. “I love my son and have great respect for him as an artist but he is dead wrong in calling police officers, particularly in New York City where I grew up, murderers,” Tony Tarantino said.  “He is a passionate man and that comes out in his art but sometimes he lets his passion blind him to the facts and to reality.  I believe that is what happened when h...

Resignations Up 22% Since 2015; Increase Since 2011 is 200% The number of police officers resigning from the NYPD who are not eligible to collect a pension has increased by 22% in 2016 when compared to the previous year and is up 200% since 2011, PBA president Patrick J. Lynch announced today.   The increasing number of officers choosing to leave the department is consistent with the survey conducted by the PBA this spring, which found that 89% of New York City police officers were interested...

The following statement will be read today at the monthly Board of Directors meeting of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: "We represent 35 experienced NY City Police officers on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated who are being kept from being hired by the Port Authority Police Department by New York City's refusal to make their employment records available to Port Authority investigators doing background checks. The officers have won a preliminary injunction declari...

Salvatore “Crazy Sal” DeSarno, who murdered police officer Cecil “Frank” Sledge in 1980 while out on parole for a robbery, has been denied parole. PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “We must send a message that you cannot kill a police officer in New York State and expect to walk out of prison a free man one day. The PBA and the Sledge family adamantly opposed parole for this cold-blooded cop killer and we are pleased that the state has denied him parole. The PBA stands ready and willing to...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch today appealed to President George W. Bush to help maintain a strong New York City Police Department by making sure its woefully underpaid police officers get the salary increase they deserve.         "Just as the president in his State of the Union address asked for a pay increase for our servicemen fighting terror overseas, I am asking him to find a way to increase the salaries of New York City police officers, who have been and will continue to be among the ve...

“Different Uniforms, Same Mission” say police union members as they provide food and moral support to nurses, doctors and staff fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. With applause and sirens blaring on their police vehicles, several dozen New York City police officers turned out at Montefiore Medical Center this morning to deliver more than a 1,000 fresh sandwiches, beverages and other food items to Montefiore’s nurses, doctors and hospital staff. The Police Benevolent Association (PBA) and the Lieu...

PO Cecil F. Sledge and PO Thomas P. Ruotolo were both gunned down while on duty by career criminals who were out of prison on parole. PO Sledge’s murderer, Salvatore Desarno, who shot the officer, backed over him with his car and dragged the officer for blocks, is up for parole next month. PO Ruotolo’s murderer, George Agosto, becomes eligible for parole in 2023. The officers’ widows, Linda Sledge and Mary Beth Ruotolo-O’Neill, were joined by a contingent of police widows as they call for chang...

The second New York City police officer to sacrifice his life in combat in the war on terror, two resourceful officers who saved the life of a baby suffering a seizure outside City Hall, officers who rescued would-be suicides, and others who defended innocent lives in shootouts with criminals are among the 32 police officers and four sergeants honored today (Thursday, Jan. 22) at the PBA’s perennial “Finest of the Finest” awards luncheon. The event was held at Manhattan’s Water Club, 30th St. ...

At a City Hall press conference today, Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city plans to hire police officers for the April 2024 NYPD Police Academy class, which was one of five classes the city had canceled due to budget cuts. PBA President Patrick Hendry said: “We’re happy to hear that the city is funding another Police Academy class, but the NYPD can’t hire its way out of its staffing crisis. We are still at least 2,700 cops below the pre-‘Defund the Police’ headcount. Nearly 3,000 more co...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said:  “This union did nothing more than point out the unethical behavior of Mr. Edelman, who not only disregarded the facts in evidence and the Taylor Law's arbitration award criteria, but also accepted future work from the city while sitting in judgment on the police contract without informing us as he was required to do. No honest, ethical and fair arbitrator should have any concerns about chairing a panel should it be required. All we have ever asked is tha...

Speaking on behalf of the presidents of the five police unions, PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said:  “Today we had a meeting with the Police Commissioner and we had a frank discussion and we brought up our concerns about the safety of our members — the police officers, detectives and supervisors on the street — and the safety of the public.  We start by thanking the public for the support they’ve given us throughout this time. But the problem was not created here at headquarters, it started...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “While we mourn the terrible loss of life and the injuries to innocent people we are proud of, and grateful for the quick action of a team of police officers who responded to cries for help and took charge of a chaotic and dangerous situation.   “While responding to a call at a nearby school, four officers heard the screams for help and shouts that a man had a gun.  Police officer Ryan Nash reached the scene first, fired his weapon and took out the gunma...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “It is not an exaggeration, nor is it a doomsday threat, to say that passage of this legislation is dangerous for the city and that it will turn the NYPD from a successful, crime fighting, proactive department back into the hesitant and reactive one we had during the crime filled days of the 80s and 90s.  If these bills become law, it will force police officers to protect themselves against frivolous lawsuits instead of protecting the city from criminals....

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said:  “Albany’s planned cuts of $1.3 billion in funding to the City would be devastating to both the NYPD and the City.   The City has already cut police officer strength by 6,000 to levels not seen since the dark days of high crime and out-of-control street violence in the late 1980s and early 1990s.  Further cutting police officer strength by 3,100 would produce truly catastrophic consequences, exposing the City to increased risks from terrorism threats includi...

Widows, children and parents of police officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty join union leaders on the steps of City Hall to make a plea to Mayor Bloomberg for a fair contract. Dozens of loved ones left behind by hero firefighters and police officers who died in the line of duty gathered with union leaders on the steps of City Hall today to call for a fair contract for the city’s bravest and finest who have been working without a contract for over two years. PBA president Pat L...

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office tonight deferred charges against one of the individuals who assaulted police officers in Washington Heights, and indicated that it would not request bail for the other individual. PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “The Manhattan DA’s office needs to wake up and realize that police officers cannot do our job when prosecutors won’t do theirs. Every perp who has ever thought about taking a swing at a cop is watching the outcome in this case. They shoul...

The Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA) began the appeals process today at the Appellate Court in Manhattan, challenging the Court’s decision regarding the arbitrary release of police body worn camera (BWC) video.  If the decision is upheld, the PBA will seek to overturn the decision at the Court of Appeals. PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “Body warn camera footage (BWC) is presently available for complete review by a host of investigative bodies including the NYPD...

New York, NY – Ahead of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign trip to Orangeburg, South Carolina, NYC Police Benevolent Association President Patrick J. Lynch penned an open letter to members of the state’s law enforcement unions. In the letter, President Lynch calls out Mayor de Blasio’s hypocritical record on labor issues and his total failure to address the City’s spiraling homelessness and mental health crises, both of which have multiplied the challenges police officers face on the street. ...

Multiple videos circulating on social media appear to show several separate incidents in which individuals interfered with police officers performing their duties, by dousing them with water or some other liquid and/or throwing objects at them. Video 1:  https://twitter.com/NYScanner/status/1153357145389326336 Video 2: https://twitter.com/NYScanner/status/1153354905761079297 PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “Our anti-cop lawmakers have gotten their wish: the NYPD is now frozen. It’s not...

Masks, gloves not distributed to all police officers; NYPD supplies inadequate for long-term pandemic The Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) filed a complaint this week with the New York State Public Employee Safety & Health Bureau (PESH) over the NYPD’s failure to provide adequate protective equipment, including masks and gloves, to all police officers to protect themselves from the COVID-19 virus. See a copy of the complaint. PBA President Patrick J. Lynch ...

PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “This situation is untenable: the NYPD needs to get cops out of the social distancing enforcement business altogether. The cowards who run this city have given us nothing but vague guidelines and mixed messages, leaving the cops on the street corners to fend for ourselves. Nobody has a right to interfere with a police action. But now that the inevitable backlash has arrived, they are once again throwing us under the bus.  Meanwhile, those same politicians...

Dozens of PBA members turned out to show solidarity with their fellow essential workers by distributing hand sanitizer during the morning rush today at the Sutphin/Archer subway station and LIRR’s Jamaica Station in Queens. Watch the PBA-recorded video. PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “New York City police officers have been on the streets and in our transit system every day during this crisis, but we haven’t been alone. Our fellow essential employees are right here with us, taking tra...

The NYC PBA filed a motion yesterday in Manhattan federal court seeking to intervene in five consolidated lawsuits concerning the NYPD’s response to the Summer 2020 protests, including the lawsuit filed in January by New York Attorney General Letitia James.  Read a copy of the motion here. PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “No inquiry into last summer’s protests will be complete without looking at the experience of the police officers on the street. We were besieged: On one side, we had ...

Joy and laughter filled the room-along with kids, parents, uniformed police officers and canine cops- at the return of the New York City Police Benevolent Association’s Widows’ and Children’s Holiday Party. This treasured annual tradition, held this year at Russo’s on the Bay in Howard Beach was cancelled last year by COVID but resumed in full merriment with dozens of families of police officers killed in the line of duty. The NYPD Emerald Society Pipes and Drums band marched in escorting Santa...

A federal appellate court today granted the NYC PBA’s motion to intervene in five consolidated lawsuits concerning the NYPD’s response to the Summer 2020 protests, including the lawsuit filed last year by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The ruling overturns a lower court’s decision denying the motion. Read the ruling here. PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “We are grateful that the court will consider a critical perspective in these cases: that of the police officers on the stre...

Spotlight on children of the fallen who are giving back to the “Blue Family” The New York City Police Benevolent Association’s annual holiday party for the hundreds of surviving family members of NYPD heroes killed in the line of duty was held today (Dec. 9) at the Howard Beach waterside restaurant, Russo’s on the Bay. For the NYPD community, it’s a highly anticipated event that features a luncheon and gifts for the line-of-duty family members, magic acts, visits from dogs from the NYPD canine...

Todd Scott, one of P.O. Edward Byrne’s assassins, to remain in prison Todd Scott, a convicted cop-killer serving 25 years to life for his involvement in the 1988 assassination of NYPD Police Officer Edward Byrne, has been denied parole, according to online records from the New York State Department of Corrections. His next parole hearing is scheduled for August 2025.  PBA President Patrick Hendry said: “We are relieved to learn that this vicious cop-killer will remain behind bars for now, bu...

The PBA is helping to provide a brighter future for children in the Dominican Republic by contributing to the New York Dominican Officers Organization’s (NYDO) charitable mission to distribute free school supplies to children in impoverished rural communities. The PBA’s donation will also help to cover the costs of life-altering surgery for Dominican children born with facial disfigurements. With the help of $5,000 from the PBA and $14,000 in other donations, 10 members of NYDO will depart on ...

Bulletins Mailed to 14,000 Households in the Bronx and Staten Island – Areas With Highest Rates of Overdose Deaths – and PBA Members Distributed Bulletins at Major Transit Hubs on Wednesday Morning The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) today released a PBA Community Safety Bulletin that warns New Yorkers of the growing opioid epidemic in the city and provides important information about resources for New Yorkers struggling with abuse and addiction in their fa...

Families of NYC Police Officers Anthony Abruzzo and Sean McDonald, who were murdered while intervening in different crimes, will present their victim’s impact statements to the NY State Parole Board on Friday, October 5th in hopes of keeping three cold-blooded cop-killers in jail while the PBA fights for tougher parole guidelines.  (Excerpts of family member’s testimony are below.) Police Officer Anthony Abruzzo, 34, was shot and killed while off-duty when he intervened in the robbery of his f...

The widow of Police Officer Joseph Piagentini and the President of the nation's largest police union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA), today called for the dismissal of the Parole Board members who voted to release domestic terrorist Herman Bell.  Mrs. Diane Piagentini, who has been a forceful advocate of keeping cop-killers in jail for life, joined PBA President Patrick Lynch and board members of the PBA to call for the firing of the panel.  Congressman...

Feinberg, One of the Nation’s Leading Experts in Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Previously Served as Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, the New York State Dioceses’ Compensation Funds, and Other High-Profile Programs The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) today announced the appointment of Kenneth R. Feinberg — one of the nation’s leading experts in mediation and alternative dispute resolution — as the union’s represe...

Union Representing Nearly 50,000 Active and Retired NYC Police Officers Sends Letter Asking for Solidarity Following De Blasio’s Routine Hypocrisy and Approach at the Bargaining Table The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) today sent a letter to labor and political leaders asking them to boycott Mayor de Blasio’s political events due to the deeply troubling anti-labor practices of the Mayor and his administration. The letter, from NYC PBA President Patrick J. ...

BROOKLYN, NY, June 10, 2019: Today, New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers who served in the Department’s Cadet Corps program held a press conference calling on Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Corey Johnson to support a State law correcting a mistake by the City that denied them credit for their cadet service. The former cadets were joined on the steps of City Hall by Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams, as well as Council Members Justin Brannan; Robert E. Cornegy, Jr.; M...

The widow of NYPD Police Officer Thomas Ruotolo went before the state Parole Board today (Friday, Aug.18) to deliver a heart-wrenching victim impact statement, arguing that the career criminal who was on parole for another killing when he mercilessly gunned down her husband on Valentine’s Day, 1984, should never be granted the second parole he seeks. SEE FULL VIDEO AND PHOTOS FROM PRESS CONFERENCE “Tommy was not the first person George Agosto had killed,” widow Mary Beth O’Neill told the boar...

Police Commissioner responds by saying he agrees that City should look at other markets to determine compensation At today’s Public Safety Committee budget hearing, Police Commissioner James O’Neill was asked repeatedly whether New York City police officers are adequately compensated, whether they should be paid a market rate and whether the current pension benefits are equitable for all officers.  Beginning with Public Safety Chair Donovan Richards, who asked about the disparity between the p...

After a weekend marred by gruesome murders, stabbings and assaults on the city’s subways — which comes on top of a months-long shooting surge above ground — the PBA is opposing a slate of bills being heard today by the City Council’s Committee on Public Safety that would further hamstring police officers’ efforts to combat the violence. PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “New York City police officers just spent the weekend picking evidence out of pools of blood on subway cars. We’ve spent...

Randolph Holder, who gave his life to protect the citizens of his adopted city from gun violence last year, led the list of 49 uniformed members of the NYPD who were honored today (June 16) at a luncheon ceremony hosted by the New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. Officer Holder, whose father and grandfather were police officers in his native Guyana and who joined the NYPD because it was, in his words, “the best police department in the world,” was fatally shot in the forehead last...

Today, for the first time in more than three years, the widow of a New York City police officer murdered in the line of duty was able to face the New York State Parole Board in person and plead with them not to free the man who killed her husband, NYPD Police Officer Gerard Carter. SEE PRESS CONFERENCE VIDEO AND PHOTOS Police widow Jozette Carter-Williams, along with P.O. Carter’s mother Martha and his son Louis, delivered a victim impact statement before the board in the one of the first in-...

The Ad Criticizes de Blasio for Leaving Town and Talking Up His “Accomplishments” While NYC Heads in the Wrong Direction; PBA Also Placing Billboard Truck Outside the Conference Venue The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) today placed a full-page print ad in the Indianapolis Star, the city’s largest daily newspaper, criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio ahead of his appearance at the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Friday and Saturday. The ad, which will appear in th...

PBA President Issues an Urgent Warning to All An urgent warning has been sent to all police personnel to be alert for Kurdel Emmanuel, 29, who attacked and attempted to take an officer’s gun in the waiting area of the 83 Precinct  at 11:15 AM on Saturday, July 8th.   Investigation determined that he is a mentally ill man with homicidal/suicidal issues who indicated that he would have killed police officers had he succeeded in gaining control of the officer’s weapon.  Mr. Emmanuel appeared befo...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “There are those who question the tactics and procedures following a terrible tragedy like this so they can learn from the facts, try and improve from it and to prevent it from happening again.  And then there are those who simply want to capitalize on the tragedy for their own political gain who pretend to be friends of the community but do nothing constructive to help.  “Police officers are put into crime ridden areas out of a deep respect for all of t...

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) of the City of New York, which represents approximately 50,000 active and retired NYC police officers, today launched its campaign to convince Council Members who voted in favor of the "bias based" policing and the Inspector General bills to vote against them when they come to the council floor following the anticipated mayoral veto. PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “City Council Members are elected to give voice to the community that elected...

The incumbent members of the Executive Board of the NYC PBA were returned to office for another four-year term beginning July 1st.   While PBA president, Patrick J. Lynch, and 1st VP, John Puglissi, were unopposed in the 2011 election, there were challenges for the office of 2nd VP, Treasurer, Recording Secretary and Citywide Trustee,  all of whom prevailed by an overwhelming margin.  In borough-wide races, 19 out of 21 incumbents were re-elected to office. PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said:...

The PBA has been informed that Shuaaib Raheem, who murdered ESU police officer Stephen Gilroy during the longest hostage standoff in NYPD history, has been granted parole. PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “I cannot express in words how angry New York City police officers are about the unjust and wrong-headed decision by the Parole Board of New York State to release a cold-blooded cop killer into society.  Today, we can expect a semblance of justice in that a convicted cop killer can be ...

The City of New York has quietly squirreled away over $600 million dollars in “unliquidated expenditures” also known as a labor reserve fund for fiscal year 2005 to cover unanticipated labor costs and has concealed its existence from a state arbitrator the PBA charged today while calling for more transparency in the city’s budget operation. The information about the funds existence came to light as the result of a freedom of information request to the Comptroller’s office after the city failed...

Angered by the low national salary standing of NYC police officers, New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association president Patrick J. Lynch unveiled a massive 80 by 25 foot billboard near Times Square that underscores the inequity in police pay between New York City and other municipalities. The billboard that states “NYC Cops, ranked # 1 in the nation in fighting crime – ranked # 145 in the nation in salary: It’s time to fix the injustice” will be on display for a month on 42nd Street jus...

PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “The parole board has failed in their duty to protect the citizens of this state. There are no words to express our anger and disgust that they have granted release to a cold-blooded cop-killer who successfully gammed the system in two states to win his freedom.  Herman Bell, a domestic terrorist and member of the Black Liberation Army, is responsible for the death of three fine law enforcement officers: Police officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones i...

Public Safety  Tracker  Highlights Key  Crime  Incidents  in  Context,  Alongside  Current Crime  Trends  and  Broader Policy Discussion Website Available at pbasafetytracker.nyc The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) today announced the launch of pbasafetytracker.nyc to help every New Yorker see how the safety of their neighborhoods is being impacted by the policing policies coming out of City Hall.  The website is part of the PBA’s commitment to engaging Ne...

PBA President calls it “very bad news for New Yorkers who want more police-community engagement and less government surveillance.” Today, at the request of the U.S. District Court judge overseeing the case, the Federal Monitor overseeing the settlement in the stop, question and frisk lawsuits against the City of New York submitted a proposal for a court-ordered pilot program. The program requires police officers to document Level 1 and Level 2 street encounters (i.e., encounters not rising to ...

U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis today asked federal prosecutors to obtain and submit victim impact statements from the family of Police Officer Anthony Mosomillo in connection with pending charges against one of P.O. Mosomillo’s killers, Betsy Ramos.  PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “We are grateful to Judge Garaufis for letting the family of our hero police officer be heard. Because of the New York State Parole Board’s outrageous deception, the Mosomillo family has been forced ...

Cops continue long-standing solidarity with nurses, doctors and hospital staff as we work together to protect New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dozens of New York City police officers, led by Police Benevolent Association (PBA) and Lieutenants Benevolent Association (LBA) officials, turned out at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens this morning to deliver food and moral support to the nurses, doctors and hospital staff who are putting themselves at risk and working around the clo...

With applause and sirens blaring on their police vehicles, today police officers assigned to the NYPD Transit Bureau gave a rousing display of front-line solidarity with MTA transit workers by delivering a truckload of freshly made hero sandwiches and other food to NYC Transit headquarters in downtown Brooklyn.  SEE VIDEO HERE. (Remarks by Pat Lynch & Tony Utano at 01:32). PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “The transit system is the beating heart of New York City, and transit workers...

Saving the lives of infants was a specialty of two of the 43 NYPD officers being honored today for feats of bravery and compassion at the PBA’s traditional “Finest of the Finest” awards ceremony at Manhattan’s Water Club. The event’s honorees – who received a commemorative plaque and a sumptuous luncheon for them and their families – included the Staten Island police officer who rescued a drowning baby, and then was seriously injured himself a few months later in another incident, the quick-th...

Fifty-one uniformed members of the NYPD were honored by their peers for their courageous and unselfish acts of bravery at the PBA’s “Finest of the Finest” awards ceremony with plaques commemorating their deeds and lunch at The Water Club in Manhattan. Among the recipients are police officer Dennis Guerra who died after becoming overcome with smoke in a Coney Island arson fire.  His partner, police officer Rosa Rodriguez, attended the ceremony and accepted her award while officer Guerra’s wife ...

The New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) honored its police officers today (Thursday, Nov. 19) at its traditional “Finest of the Finest” awards luncheon. Thirty-five police officers, two sergeants and one lieutenant were cited for acts of heroism and bravery while facing guns and knives aimed at them and at innocent civilians and while rescuing accident victims from a flaming automobile. PBA President Pat Lynch hosted the 1 p.m. luncheon at Manhattan’s Water Club, 30th St. an...

The New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) today (Thursday, Jan. 13) honored 37 New York City police officers and two sergeants for acts of heroism and humanitarianism. They were cited at the “Finest of the Finest” luncheon at Manhattan’s Water Club on the banks of the East River. The honorees ranged from the police officer who donated a kidney to save the life of a perfect stranger to the rookie who risked her life to save innocent civilians from a crazed man on a mid-day stab...

CCRB grants itself the authority to initiate investigations without a complainant based on unauthenticated YouTube videos among many other outrageous self-granted powers The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) today filed suit in Manhattan Supreme Court against the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) which has inappropriately granted itself powers that far exceed those established by the City Charter. PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said:  “The CCRB has alw...

On May 21, 1971, Diane Piagentini’s husband, Police Officer Joseph Piagentini, was brutally and sadistically murdered by three members of the Black Liberation Army who lured him and his partner, Police Officer Waverly Jones, to a City housing project with a false call for help where they were ambushed and assassinated.  Black Liberation Army members Anthony Bottom, Herman Bell and Albert Washington were convicted of the cold-blooded assassination but were spared the death penalty which had just...

Police Officer Scott Gadell, a 22-year-old U.S. Army reservist with 11 months of NYPD service, was killed execution-style as he stopped to reload his six-shooter in a gun battle with a career criminal. That was on June 28, 1986. Today — just days before the 35th anniversary of that heinous crime — the New York State Parole Board has seen fit to schedule the parole release of P.O. Gadell’s killer, Errol Campbell (aka Robert Roulston). He is latest in a shameful wave of 21 cop-killers being turn...

Slain cop's widow, police group, demand cancellation The New York City PBA has learned that the notorious cop-killer now named Jalil Muntaqim has been invited to speak at the State University of New York’s Brockport College on April 6 in a taxpayer-funded “conversation” in which — promotional materials indicate — he’ll be depicted as a “U.S. political prisoner,” rather than the bloody assassin that he really is. PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “SUNY Brockport has a duty to teach its stu...

Union Representing 50,000 New York City Police Officers Supports Elizabeth Crowley, Felix Ortiz, and Robert Rodriguez in Campaigns for Council Seats The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) today announced its first round of endorsements in the 2017 elections for City Council, offering support to three experienced legislators who have strong records providing support and advocating on behalf of New York City police officers. The union, which represents nearly 50...

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) of the City of New York, which represents approximately 50,000 active and retired NYC police officers, today continued its campaign in the district of Council member Mark Weprin to convince council members who voted in favor of the “bias based” policing and the Inspector General bills to vote against them when they come to the council floor following the anticipated mayoral veto.  The union distributed thousands of flyers to Weprin’s constituents at ...

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) of the City of New York, which represents approximately 50,000 active and retired NYC police officers, today announced its plan to invest the full resources of the organization in challenging council members who voted in favor of the “biased based” policing and Inspector General bills, including supporting opponents in upcoming re-election bids. PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “There are many council members who voted in favor of these bills...

Recognizing the substantial pay disparity between NYC police officers and police elsewhere, a state arbitration panel has, for the third consecutive contract, awarded a significantly higher pay raise to police officers than was awarded to other unions and has shattered a century-old lock-step parity relationship with firefighters. Starting pay for police officers is increased retroactively but is offset by an unwarranted loss of 10 vacation days for future hires. The decision came down from th...

NYPD document pins recruiting problem to increase in college requirements three years before an arbitration panel lowered starting pay; uncompetitive top pay caused recruiting problem An NYPD document issued to hire outside consultants to boost recruiting efforts cites the 1995 increase in educational requirements to become a police officer as the cause of the NYPD’s recruiting problem supporting the PBA’s argument that uncompetitive top pay is making potential candidates look elsewhere for ...

In a victory for PBA President Patrick J. Lynch, a supreme court justice today issued a permanent injunction blocking the Police Department from implementing its plan to promote selected police officers to the rank of “detective specialist.” Justice Stanley Parness’ four-page written decision agreed with the PBA’s position that the plan to promote 2,000 cops to the entry-level detective rank by year’s end was “merely a guise to unilaterally award merit increases without negotiating with the PB...

The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYCPBA) has filed, on behalf of Mrs. Diane Piagentini, the widow of assassinated Police Officer Joseph Piagentini, a request to suspend the parole of three-time cop-killer, Herman Bell, and seeks a rescission hearing that, if successful, will continue the killer’s incarceration. The document makes the request “…on the grounds that significant information existed which was not considered by the New York State Board of Parole (Board...

This Holiday Season, Mayor de Blasio Gives Gift of Uncertainty to PBA Members In ‘Hypocrisy,’ a new television ad released today, the Patrolman’s Benevolent Association (NYC PBA) sheds light on how Mayor Bill de Blasio has failed to represent working New Yorkers by looking out for his own interests first. New York City police officers remain drastically underpaid in comparison to other local police officers, and have been working without a contract for over a year, since July 31st, 2017. The s...

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge today issued a ruling in the Police Benevolent Association’s lawsuit challenging the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s (CCRB) recent rule revisions.  The court struck down four of CCRB’s revised rules on the grounds that the board had inappropriately granted itself powers exceeding those established by the City Charter and other legislative mandates. PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “Today’s ruling is a step in the right direction, because it validates what...

Deceased Police Officer Russell Timoshenko, his wounded hero partner P.O.Herman Yan and P.O.Gregory Chin who saved the life of an elderly woman being attacked with a carving knife are among the 39 hero police officers honored today (Wednesday, Jan. 31) by their peers at the PBA’s “Finest of the Finest” award ceremony. The event was held at Manhattan¹s Water Club, 30th St. and East River Drive. The event¹s honorees — who received a commemorative plaque and an elaborate luncheon for them and th...

Thirty-eight members of the NYPD (32 police officers, 4 Sergeants, 1 Detective and 1 Deputy Inspector) — including Police Officer Kevin Brennan who survived a point blank shot to the head — were honored by their peers for acts of heroism and bravery today at the New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association’s (PBA) annual “Finest of the Finest” awards luncheon at Bridgewaters at the Fulton Market, Manhattan. PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “Receiving a ‘Finest of the Finest’ award i...

A fallen war hero and two quick-acting and compassionate police officers who saved the life of a 10-month-old victim of a psycho-stabbing topped the list of intrepid honorees today (Thursday, Jan. 12) at the traditional “Finest of the Finest” awards luncheon sponsored by the New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA). U.S. Army Reserves Staff Sgt. James D. McNaughton, who when not in military uniform wore NYPD-blue while patrolling Transit District 2, last summer became the first N...

Thirty-eight uniformed members of the NYPD (36 Police Officers and two Sergeants) were honored by their peers today, Thursday, May 25, during the PBA’s Finest of the Finest Awards luncheon at The Water Club in Manhattan.  The heroic deeds for which these officers are being honored involve the things New York City police officers do every day: rescues and other life-saving acts, as well as defending the lives of innocent civilians – not to mention their fellow police officers – from the violent...

Scott Cobb, one of the killers of P.O. Edward Byrne, to go free next month Scott Cobb, a murderous participant in the 1988 assassination of NYPD Police Officer Edward Byrne – one of the most heinous and noteworthy cop-killings of the 20th century – has been granted parole and is about to be released to walk among us, the NYC PBA has learned. This shocking injustice is personal for PBA President Patrick Hendry, who is assigned to Byrne’s 103 Pct. in Queens and recalls passing the plaque with t...

Created 1,600 Teddy Bears for Grieving Police Families Megan O’Grady, founder and president of Blue Line Bears, was named the NYC PBA’s 2024 Person of the Year today, Aug. 29, at the police union’s 130th annual convention in Albany. SEE VIDEO OF AWARD PRESENTATION & REMARKS 0:18 – PBA President Patrick Hendry’s remarks 2:54 – Award presentation 6:20 – Megan O’Grady’s remarks PBA President Patrick Hendry presented the award to the daughter of a Cape Coral Police Department lieutenant w...

Three-Quarters of Respondents Support NYPD; Nearly Half Believe City is On the Wrong Track; New Yorkers Cast Serious Doubt on Crime Stats The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) today announced the results of a new poll which focuses on key public safety issues facing New York City, including perceptions of crime and quality of life issues, and attitudes towards police officers. The survey — which was conducted by national polling firm McLaughlin & Associ...

The City Council is blocking the delivery of constituent’s emails calling for adequate support for police officers hired since 2009 who are disabled on the job causing concerned citizens to wonder if members are really representing voter’s concerns. A recently hired police officer who is permanently disabled in the line of duty would have to live the rest of his or her life on approximately $22,000 a year (half from the city and half from Social Security) and would not be allowed to earn any o...

The New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the nation’s largest municipal police union that represents nearly 50,000 active and retired police officers, today endorsed David I. Weprin for election as New York City Comptroller. NYC PBA president Patrick J. Lynch said: “David Weprin has fought long and hard for New York’s working families and its police officers who struggle day in and day out to hold their lives together in this tough town. His service as the Chairman of the Council...

Russell Carroll, the last living member of a group of four men who were convicted of acting in concert in the murder of police officer Robert Sorrentino, 35, in April, 1980 will appear before the New York State Parole Board next month in his first bid to be released from prison. On Friday, January 21 st, family and friends with the support of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association and its president Patrick J. Lynch will deliver a victim’s impact statement to the board opposing parole along with...

Following an attempt to end run the law that requires rescission of the parole date and the establishment of a new panel to rehear the case of three-time cop-killer Herman Bell, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYCPBA) is calling upon the New York State Parole Board Chairwoman, Tina M. Stanford, an officer of the court, to ensure that her agency follows the letter of the law.  In a third letter to the board, the union cites an attempt to end run their failure to “...

In #LaborAgainstdeBlasio Twitter Campaign, Union Representing Nearly 50,000 Active and Retired NYC Police Officers Calls on Other Unions and Their Members to Stop Bolstering the Mayor’s Future Aspirations and Boycott His Political Events The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) today launched a sponsored social media campaign — directed at several hundred local and national labor unions and their members — calling on the unions to boycott Mayor Bill de Blasio’s...

Albany, NY—The NYC Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) today honored Patti Ann and Conor McDonald — the widow and the son of the late hero NYPD officer Steven McDonald — as the organization’s 2018 Persons of the Year at its 124th annual convention. PBA President Patrick J. Lynch presented the awards to Mrs. McDonald and Sgt. Conor McDonald — who followed in his father’s footsteps by joining the NYPD — before hundreds of PBA delegates, other NYPD officers and officials, and dignitaries at ...

The New York State Board of Parole sank to a new low last month, when it failed to provide the family of slain New York City Police Officer Anthony Mosomillo with an opportunity to oppose the parole release of one P.O. Mosomillo’s killers. PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “The con game that the Parole Board just ran on the Mosomillo family is an utter disgrace. Over the past year, we have seen multiple instances in which the Parole Board staff lied to or misled the families of fallen poli...

10,000 cops set to be pulled from streets With less than 48 hours left until Mayor de Blasio’s arbitrary vaccination deadline for city workers — and following a state judge’s refusal to pause the deadline despite the mandate’s chaotic rollout — police union leaders are warning New Yorkers that the NYPD brass is completely unprepared for the staffing shortage that will result from the mandate’s haphazard implementation. As of Thursday morning, there were approximately 10,000 unvaccinated, un...

Unions will target Long Island, Hudson Valley senators who ‘betrayed their constituents’ by voting for anti-police, pro-criminal legislation A coalition of 23 New York police unions — representing more than 200,000 law enforcement officers from across the state —  today announced an unprecedented joint endorsement of six Republican State Senate candidates in key battleground districts. Law Enforcement-Endorsed State Senate Candidates District 1 – Anthony Palumbo, running to replace retirin...

More than 100 Members – Frustrated by a Mayor Who is Missing in Action – Demonstrated Outside the Mayoral Residence and His Gym to Reach a Fair Contract Agreement The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (PBA) announced that more than 100 members gathered outside Gracie Mansion this morning – the city’s official mayoral residence – and the Prospect Park YMCA, the preferred workout spot for Mayor de Blasio. The member demonstration was the result of a growing frustration w...

After four decades of adamantly denying any role in the 1971 assassination of two police officers, one of whom begged for his life saying he had two small daughters, two members of the Black Liberation Army have finally admitted to the murders in a transparent bid to win parole.  The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) is seeking help in opposing parole for these two cold-blooded cop killers by asking the public to send a letter of opposition through the union’s...

New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA) President Patrick J. Lynch today filed four federal class-action lawsuits in four separate states charging nine brand-name and generic pharmaceutical companies with violating anti-trust laws by entering into agreements to keep much less expensive generic drugs off the prescription market at a multi-million-dollar yearly cost to consumers. Named in the complaints were: Pfizer, Inc., and Mylan Laboratories, Inc., in a suit filed in the U.S. ...

Former parole board member says: Bell’s sentencing judge wanted him to serve “as long as legally permissible” The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA,) has located the critical sentencing minutes that the Parole Board illegally failed to consider before granting cold-blooded, three-time cop-killer Herman Bell parole.  In a letter to the board, the PBA cites both Criminal Procedure Law and Executive Law that requires the board to “obtain and consider” the recomme...

JUDGE GRANTS TRO AGAINST KILLER’S RELEASE Widow implores Governor Cuomo to make NY state parole board follow the law and consider the intentions of the sentencing judge in her husband’s murder  Albany, NY: On behalf of police widow Diane Piagentini, the Patrolman’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYCPBA) filed suit on Wednesday, in NY State Supreme Court in Albany County against New York State Board of Parole and its chairwoman, Tina M. Stanford, for failure to follow the Crim...

Letter to Bar Association President Demonstrates the Authors Used the Report and the Bar Association to Advance Their Own Anti-Police Litigation and Other Interests The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) today called on the New York City Bar Association to immediately rescind an April 30th report related to police personnel records due to conflicts of interests that clearly run afoul of the association’s ethical guidelines. In a letter from PBA President Patr...

De Blasio Routinely Spins a Tale to Depict Himself as the Most Progressive Mayor in America, While His Treatment of City Workers Tells Another Story The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York (NYC PBA) today sent a letter to members of the Democratic National Committee, urging them to judge Mayor de Blasio on his actions, not his words, especially when it comes to his treatment of city workers. The full text of the letter is below. August 27, 2018 Dear Democratic Natio...

Joined by NYC PBA President, Patrick J. Lynch, Lawrence Byrne, Manny Jones and Gwenna Wright presented their families’ victim’s impact statements today opposing the parole for the five men convicted in the cold-blooded assassinations of Police Officers Edward Byrne, Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini. Piagentini’s widow, Diane, gave her victim impact statement opposing parole for Anthony Bottom last Friday, October 12th. Police Officer Edward “Eddie” Byrne was assassinated on February 26, 198...

The families of murdered New York City Police Officers Anthony Abruzzo and Harry Ryman will appear separately before the New York State Board of Parole today to deliver victim impact statements opposing the parole of their loved ones’ killers. The families’ painful pilgrimage comes sooner than expected, as the Parole Board has awarded three of the cop-killers involved with new hearings ahead of schedule. PBA President Patrick J. Lynch said: “The out-of-control Parole Board is torturing these...

PBA and Police Widow: Cuomo and Legislature ‘Stacked Deck’ in Favor of Cop-Killers The hero families of New York City Police Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones received yet another gut-punch from the New York State Parole Board today, when they learned that the board has voted to release Black Liberation Army assassin Anthony Bottom from prison next month.  The PBA and Piagentini family laid the blame for Bottom’s shocking release squarely on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the State Legislat...

The New York City Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) today (Wednesday, Dec. 17) honored Detective Richard Burt, whose swift reaction and expert marksmanship prevented further bloodshed after Council Member James Davis was assassinated in City Hall last June. Burt, who gunned down Davis’ assassin, was among 43 New York City police officers and one Suffolk County cop honored by the police union as the “Finest of the Finest.” PBA President Patrick J. Lynch and other members of the union’s E...

Fifty-three uniformed members of the NYPD (46 Police Officers and seven Sergeants) were honored today by their peers at the PBA’s “Finest of the Finest” ceremony held at a luncheon at Manhattan’s Water Club.  Among the honorees were four police officers who terminated the 2017 Halloween terror attack in downtown Manhattan, two officers who, in two different instances, saved babies from certain death, and the officer who discovered an armed threat to police officers in a Facebook posting and th...

POLICE OFFICER’S 9/11 UNIFORM SHOWSHIGH LEVELS OF CANCER CAUSING TOXINS STATE LEGISLATORS INTRODUCE BILLTO COMPEL CITY TO RELEASE DATA As the first tower fell, Police Officer Alonzo Harris ran from his traffic control post at Liberty and Church Streets towards Broadway where he dove under a vehicle and was buried in debris.  That day he wrapped his uniform in several plastic bags and put it in the bottom of his closet.  Following the only few sick days he had taken in his nine years as a poli...

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