NY Cops Shooting, A Return To The '70s; 60 NYPD Officers Killed On The Job 1971-1980

NY Cops Shooting, A Return To The '70s; 60 NYPD Officers Killed On The Job 1971-1980

After the funeral of two policemen gunned down in their car, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu,  cops in New York and elsewhere are thinking about New York City returning to its state in the 1970s. And reports say that police and their relatives are and concerned about police safety.

Although, the gunman who killed the two officers had posted on his Instagram account that the double homicide was a retaliation of the choke-hold death of Eric Gardner, police authorities say that the killing of cops are the result of protests led by community leaders who called for reform in the Police Department.
They say that it was wrong for the Mayor Bill de Blasio to allow protestors to say slogans like, "What do we want? Dead cops!"

In his speech, the Mayor is referring to New York City in the 1970s when racial tensions were high. During the period from 1971-1980, 60 NYPD officers were gunned down on the job, based on police data.

"In the '70s, the NYPD laid off thousands of officers due to budget cuts. Patrolmen were also not allowed to make low-level drug arrests and, instead, had to watch drug deals occur and report their observations to superiors, according to a Yale School of Management case study from 2008. Crime festered, increasing sevenfold by 1990, compared to numbers in 1960," The Epoch Times reported.

 Capt. Joseph Concannon, a twenty-five year veteran at the NYPD said  "People are in complete shock that this city could reverse direction, 180 degrees, in one year," The Epoch Times continued.