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More than 1,000 New York City police officers have applied to leave the department by 2022, raising questions about the city’s ability to maintain a large police force and maintain safety and security.
Former NYPD Detective Jason Caputo and Blue Lives Matter NYC founder Joe Imperatrice weighed in on the law enforcement exodus on “Fox & Friends First” Monday, arguing that incentives to work with the police force of the Big Apple no longer exist.
“You’re losing qualified [people]you’re missing out on experience, you’re missing out on a lot when it comes to this kind of thing,” Caputo told guest host Ashley Strohmier.
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The coat of arms of a New York City police officer on May 19, 2011.
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The former detective’s comments come a month after he left 18 years of service and as others involved in the exodus quit before receiving their full pensions.
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Caputo claimed the city is “moving away” from encouraging officers to arrest criminals, adding that city and NYPD leaders are “putting victims and police at risk.”
NYPD officers respond to the scene of a shooting that left several people injured in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn on April 6, 2021.
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Strohmier turned the discussion to New York City’s “diaphragm law,” which prohibits officers from placing suspects in suffocation bags or applying pressure to a suspect’s diaphragm, and pointed to a recent example of the MMA fighter Ro Malabanan, who helped take down a criminal suspect by securing himself. him against the ground.
“The progressive council would have gone after an official [if they had done the same move], they would have gone after their work,” Imperatrice said. “Any kind of fight, especially martial arts, you end up on the ground, and that’s what it’s all about; you are trying to subdue the individual. That MMA fighter did nothing wrong, but had to use his body weight to subdue them until the officers arrived…”
Imperatrice and Caputo said officers are risking “everything” to do their jobs amid a hostile environment for law enforcement.
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Caputo followed suit, responding to Strohmier’s question about incentives to join the NYPD by saying “there aren’t any” and adding, “I wouldn’t really encourage that many people to take this job.”
Taylor Penley is a production assistant at Fox News.
