By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:54:06 +0000

Watching this points to fracturing in the NYPD, which is never good. There was already a fault line there because the bulk of ‘white shirts’ are political appointees who may not have been respected when they were ‘blue shirts’.

The ‘blue shirts’ are definitely hanging back and acting like they want to be somewhere else. Yeah, the stewards are really working overtime on this. If I was on the scene, I should be able to ID the stewards/union reps, because I’ll bet the ‘blue shirts’ are looking at them for a signal on whether to get involved.

The shift roll calls are probably fairly noisy these days.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:24:54 +0000

I was the equivalent of a “blue shirt” in another organization and I can tell you that in that organization I was *very* cognizant of department policy and CYA. If a supervisor ordered me to do something blatantly illega l or against department policy I would have at the very least requested that he repeat the order in the presence of my union rep or put it in writing, no way I was gonna hang myself out in the air all by my lonesome to get 100% of the blame if things went to s**t. In some of these actions it appears that the white shirts aren’t even ordering the blue shirts anymore, they’re just wading into the crowd and getting themselves into trouble that the blue shirts have to come in and retrieve them from. Somehow I suspect NYPD union reps are getting a real workout at the moment dealing with street cops who want to know what to do if some random supervisor issues them an illegal order…

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