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Speaker 2: For T andc's So we're joined now by Scott Monroe
Speaker 2: from the Detectives Endowment Association. And Scott, we have issues
Speaker 2: to talk about, but let's talk about the psyche for
Speaker 2: a minute. A public school in Manhattan, in a very
Speaker 2: wealthy area put on some play last week where the
Speaker 2: students depicted being shot by cops. I mean, we can't
Speaker 2: win with this kind of mentality in the city, can we.
Speaker 2: Now that's terrible.
Speaker 3: You know what, We're out there trying to show the
Speaker 3: public that every day, the new Jury Police Department, that
Speaker 3: we're not against the public in any type of way.
Speaker 3: I mean, especially the Detectors and Downmand Association. You know,
Speaker 3: we do everything that we're out there with our canteen
Speaker 3: out there, you know, feeding families on Thanksgiving and everything
Speaker 3: was like that. Why would they on earth try to
Speaker 3: do something like that.
Speaker 2: You know, it's also just about the general psyche. I mean,
Speaker 2: I grew up in New I spent my pre teen
Speaker 2: and ten years. I moved to New York in nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty one, came back in the late nineties, and being
Speaker 2: in the NYPD and being in a cop was hot,
Speaker 2: to say the least. It was so revered. In fact,
Speaker 2: you might remember in the late nineties there were all
Speaker 2: those guys who were over the age to join the
Speaker 2: NYPD who were petitioning Mayor Giuliani to let them join.
Speaker 2: That's how much people wanted to be a part of this.
Speaker 2: And now we have this anti cop sentiment even in
Speaker 2: the wealthier at parts of the city. And on top
Speaker 2: of that, Scott Monroe from the Detectives and Dominant Association,
Speaker 2: we also have a changing nature of crime in the city.
Speaker 2: When I was growing up in the city, it was
Speaker 2: property crime, per snatching, mugging, chains being ripped off. Now
Speaker 2: it's random, mentally ill people who there's nothing you could do.
Speaker 2: They're just coming and slashing people out of nowhere. This
Speaker 2: is we need the police more than ever.
Speaker 4: Correct, No, you need you need you need a governor,
Speaker 4: a government that in Albany you're gonna put these people
Speaker 4: in mental institutions. They shouldn't be in the streets in
Speaker 4: New York.
Speaker 3: Yes, they're gonna have to do something with that. And
Speaker 3: it's a show. We had one of our detectives shot
Speaker 3: in the leg the other day. The barricaded prisoner was
Speaker 3: an he emostly just started person. He was a real
Speaker 3: hero along with other detectives there that day. They had
Speaker 3: a family upstairs, and all the family upstairs that barricaded
Speaker 3: themselves in the room because they were afraid this this
Speaker 3: individual was shooting, shooting at the gas line and the stoves.
Speaker 3: They went in there to take action and unfortunately, you
Speaker 3: know what happened was uh, you know, he didn't he
Speaker 3: didn't make it. But but but this is what shows
Speaker 3: you on these disturbances mostly uh, to start people. You
Speaker 3: can't bring civilians there to talk to these people because
Speaker 3: now you gotta worry about them. And unfortunately, we have
Speaker 3: a detective sitting in the hospital that right now that
Speaker 3: got shot in the leg by him.
Speaker 4: There's one Scott's Gootchy talks again. The problem is you
Speaker 4: have this either deliberate or naive attempt to change the
Speaker 4: nature of policing. The job of the police officers are
Speaker 4: to protect and to defend. Sending in social workers creates
Speaker 4: the problem as you created, because you have to protect
Speaker 4: them as well, and they're not capable of taking calm
Speaker 4: and control of the situation, whereas the people who respond
Speaker 4: are very trained in this. Similarly, they want to take
Speaker 4: away the critical response groups. You know, Mondomie's attempts to
Speaker 4: do this, and he seems to have cool that at
Speaker 4: least to the time being. But the fact of the
Speaker 4: matters is how do you take care of the riot situation?
Speaker 4: Send in social workers, stand down, let people riot take
Speaker 4: over Macy's. As di Blasio did, well.
Speaker 3: I think she's starting to see what really going on.
Speaker 3: I would love to ask him that question, what do
Speaker 3: you do you feel differently than you feel now from
Speaker 3: six months ago or eight months ago when you were campaigning,
Speaker 3: you know, I would like I can know, do you
Speaker 3: feel a little bit different about what policing does and
Speaker 3: what we're going to be doing? Is you know in
Speaker 3: New York, how we're going to keep New York safe?
Speaker 2: Well, at answer you by telling you it's the Jew's fault.
Speaker 2: I mean he Thursday night, he makes the speech right
Speaker 2: after the feel good parade for the Knicks, and he's
Speaker 2: talking about everyone coming together. And then he makes the
Speaker 2: speech at a political rally calling people who donate to
Speaker 2: Israel monsters, and he uses the term monsters right out
Speaker 2: of derch Schermer in nineteen thirty eight from Nazi Germany
Speaker 2: and talks about how they all they want to do
Speaker 2: is support genocide. There is no genocide, by the way,
Speaker 2: in Gaza, it's it's called mathematics.
Speaker 4: There's no apotheid, there's no colonism, there's no genocide.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and by the way, insults the true victims of apartheid,
Speaker 2: genocide and through throughout history of the world. But you
Speaker 2: know another thing that really gets me here is you know,
Speaker 2: the left is supposed to be the big supporters of
Speaker 2: the unions, the working unions. Well, I got news for you.
Speaker 2: The border patrol agents have a union. The cops have
Speaker 2: a union. Certain government workers who they've been demonizing, these
Speaker 2: cops and border patrol ages, they're union workers. Where's the
Speaker 2: respect for them. It's amazing to me. I mean, obviously
Speaker 2: this is a big part of your argument, I would assume, Scott.
Speaker 3: Yes, listen, I want to have an open dialogue with
Speaker 3: the Maya, just like I had an open dialogue with
Speaker 3: the last maya and explain to that, Explain to the
Speaker 3: maya basically why we need certain things and moving forward,
Speaker 3: because you know what it's about in New York City,
Speaker 3: it's about seeping the people safe in New York City.
Speaker 3: It's about keep of my detectives, all police officers are
Speaker 3: safe every day, making sure that they go home to
Speaker 3: their families. That's what it's all about, Scott.
Speaker 5: This is Fernando Mateo. By the way, I have a
Speaker 5: great deal of respect for all of our NYPD uniform
Speaker 5: then detectives because they keep us all safe.
Speaker 2: And I don't really think that you need to.
Speaker 5: Do much explaining to the mayor or much asking from
Speaker 5: the mayor. Just look at what happened yesterday in Harlem.
Speaker 5: Four kids shot for kids, then you go to the
Speaker 5: Bronx there were another six or seven kids stabbed and shot.
Speaker 5: You know what happens in the city every day speaks
Speaker 5: for itself. And who has to come to the rescue,
Speaker 5: Who has to investigate to find these people, to find
Speaker 5: the people who committed these crimes. It's our detectives, it's
Speaker 5: our police officers, right, we need to appreciate them more.
Speaker 5: There isn't much that you need to explain to the mayor.
Speaker 5: Just show them the newspapers, let them read, let them
Speaker 5: see for himself.
Speaker 3: The mayor. You know what we had that, you know,
Speaker 3: that big parade for the nixt We had a couple
Speaker 3: different You know, we have millions of people there, right,
Speaker 3: but you only had a couple of different problems there.
Speaker 3: The police commissioner and her staff put everybody out there.
Speaker 3: They were working long, hot hours, they were working double shifts.
Speaker 3: These detectives they're tired, you know what I mean, They're
Speaker 3: going home to their families. People are gonna be retiring,
Speaker 3: and that's what's very concerning to me, you know, with
Speaker 3: the governor. I mean, I have a bill that's sitting
Speaker 3: on her desk right now that I have a thousand
Speaker 3: detectives that can retire in July. I only have a
Speaker 3: little over five thousand normally we have. When I took
Speaker 3: over two years ago, we had about five thousand, six hundred.
Speaker 3: Brought it out, we had seven thousand detectives. So we're
Speaker 3: down with all membership. Okay, it's very important that the
Speaker 3: governor looks at this building, signs it. Now she needs
Speaker 3: to stop the bleeding right now, not in October, not
Speaker 3: in November. We need to stop it now. So I'm
Speaker 3: concerned about the city. These bills have to get signed
Speaker 3: and all members need to continue, and we need to
Speaker 3: continue to keep our experience here in the Detective Bureau.
Speaker 2: Well, Scott again, I mean, we only have about thirty
Speaker 2: seconds left. But you know this is this is like
Speaker 2: a blueprint for how to destroy a civilization. You open
Speaker 2: up the jails, open up the borders, de emphasize law
Speaker 2: and order. Look, we all know that we want because
Speaker 2: not that we want the police to run without any oversight,
Speaker 2: but to get rid of the police absolutely or effectively.
Speaker 2: You know, they don't have to literally defund the police.
Speaker 2: But if we have these kinds of depleted numbers of
Speaker 2: cops streets, it's the same thing, the same I don't
Speaker 2: blame them for wanting to leave, Scott.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, you know, I know we need more detectives,
Speaker 5: but I don't blame them for wanting to leave.
Speaker 2: Quick last word to you, Scott, go ahead, Scott, quick
Speaker 2: last word to you.
Speaker 3: I think it was just like listen, we're here, our
Speaker 3: members are out there working day to day. They have
Speaker 3: families at home, just like everybody else, you know, whether
Speaker 3: you're a stockbroker or you're a bus driver or whatever.
Speaker 3: They want to go home to their families and they
Speaker 3: want to be safe, and that's our job. We have
Speaker 3: to keep them safe. Not only keeping them safe, we're
Speaker 3: keeping the people of city in New York safe.
Speaker 2: Scott Monroe, the New York Detectives and Downment Association.
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