De Blasio Facing Union Hostility as NYPD Returns to Work
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The hostility toward New York Mayor Bill de Blasio that led police officers to stop enforcing laws on minor crimes and traffic violations will continue even after arrests and summonses start to climb, union leaders said.
Although labor leaders denied that police had stopped working, criminal summonses fell to 347 for the week ending Jan. 4, compared with 4,077 in the same week last year. In Manhattan, police and traffic agents issued just 104 parking tickets. In the same period a year ago, they handed out more than 4,200.