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NYPD officers haven't paid much attention to Mayor Eric Adams demanding them to stop congregating.
Steve Cuozzo

Oh, was there a memo from the mayor? It must have gone to spam!

The day The Post reported that Mayor Eric Adams warned NYPD officers not to stand around in groups
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and yakking but to do their jobs, I found lots of officers standing in groups and yakking. 'inappropriate' outfits, 'booty pics'

On a stroll Wednesday night around 7 p.m. from Sixth

Avenue and West 23red Street to the corner of Lafayette and 101,449
Great Jones streets, I passed multiple locations where
uniformed cops cheerfully danced upon Adams’ orders.
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Too many cops have adopted a see-no-evil attitude. Their own union leaders now advise them to
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The NYPD remains as magnificent as ever in matters of life and death. Cops put themselves in harm’s Mayor Adams' no-congregating order
way every day. No police force anywhere can best the Big Apple’s for courage and competence when it

comes to protecting the public from mortal danger.

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NYPD morale has plummeted to an all-time low thanks to liberal policies.

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But it’s a different story altogether in cases of lesser but indispensable enforcement.

Cops were never thrilled to break up quality-of-life violations, not even when “broken windows” policing
commanded greater respect than it does today. But the men and women in blue largely did what was
asked of them.

Today, though — as any New Yorker knows who spends as much time as I do on streets, on subways and
in parks — lots of cops throw up their hands en masse. They work their cell phones while ignoring
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There are no statistics to back up my observations. But, “The cops just stood around” has become as
common a line among my fellow citizens as complaints about the weather.

NYPD morale is at its lowest in decades , as shown by a rush to quit or retire.

The reasons are obvious — but mostly immaterial.

Yes, the near-extinction of stop-and-frisk made cops’ jobs harder.

Yes, they feel futile when suspects they arrest are immediately released to commit more criminal acts,
thanks to insane “bail reform.”

Yes, they’re vilified by race-baiters who want to defund the police and unappreciated by elected officials
who pander to the activists.

But nobody said that being a cop is an easy job. Some aren’t doing it. They’ll continue not doing it unless
Adams and Sewell read commanders the riot act — and make examples of those who ignore them.

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