New York State Troopers PBA President Thomas Mungeer says Mayor de Blasio's new laws are putting officers at risk.
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Brian New York City Mayor Bill,
Brian New York City, Mayor Bill
De Blasio, sparking outrage after
signing what our next guest
calls hastily written police
reform into law,
the head of the police Union now
demanding state troopers, be
removed from their stations and
cease operations throughout the
five burrows immediately
PBS President joins us now
whats the big problem with this
reform that has you alarmed
good morning
its an honor to be here.
What has me alarmed is that
troopers that are trained in
certain tactics to arrest
violent people can now be
arrested for using those tactics
within the five counties in New
York City.
Yet those tactics are still
legal in the other, fifty seven counties
in New York, State
Brian you dont, have immunity
anymore.
They just upped the ante in
New York City and made it
extremely tough to arrest a
violent person
again. This is only a handful of
people that are very violent
when you arrest them,
but by raising the bar and
almost making it impossible for
my members to safely arrest
somebody you are setting my
people, four failure. I want them
out
Brian. You have state troopers,
ride the trains
on bridges and airports.
Now the new Nypd accountability
package includes ban the use of
chokeholds, protect new Yorkers
rights to record police
officers. Greater transparency
with the use of surveillance
technology and insure officers,
bank and badge number is visible
and establish police
disciplinary matrix.
Who would actually do that evaluation of whether police
evaluation of whether police
were wrong or right
boils down to the lawmakers,
making more and more laws that
can handcuff police officers
from doing their job,
its almost impossible?
And what wire talking about?
We are not talking about a
chokehold or anything else,
its any pressure on the
diaphragm
and when you arrest a violent
person and rolling around on the
ground, with them its inevitable
that these tactics might come
into play
the same as a high school
wrestling match
the same tactic.
In the end, my troopers can be
held criminally liable or
civilly liable for the way they
are trained and acting the way
they are trained.
Brian, your move is to talk to
your superintendent.
Your superintendent has got to
talk to the governor.
What if they dont resolve this?
Are you going to recommend
pulling the two hundred out?
Well, I am recommending
pulling them out and I will take
the case directly to the
governor if need be,
but my first step was go to my
superintendent, who is a very
good leader, and you know I
have a good relationship with
him and we will go from there,
but you know I find it its
unbelievable, where one of my
troopers can pursue somebody
down the New York State
Throughway and that car could
stop on the border. One arrest
tactics used at the bumper of
that car if the person is out
and acting violently and another
set of rules on the other bumper
of the car, depending where you
are in the city border,
you cant have two sets of rules
in the a state
Brian cant hold them in jail
when think attack a cop and now
worry about being sued. When you
protect us,
why would anyone put on this
uniform?
They are basically saying we do
not want effective, policing
and thats, not okay. With the
people in this city.
I cant see anyone Democrat or
Republican
Tom thanks for speaking out and
telling your story and trying to
get ahead of this before its
too late
its an honorable.
Thank you for having me on
Brian. You got it.
We reached out to Mayor DE.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-21.