As a 34-year NYPD member and president of the New York Metropolis Sergeants Benevolent Affiliation, I can say with out equivocation that the law-enforcement career has by no means been extra daunting and downright horrifying.
I stood shoulder to shoulder final week with my fellow police leaders and endorsed Nassau County Legislator Mazi Pilip for Tuesday’s particular election for New York’s third Congressional District.
The present crises replicate a whole breakdown of regulation and order in our communities and are highly effective reminders that elections matter. The state of affairs we face is simply too dire to put hope over expertise.
We’d like public officers with a constant document of supporting regulation enforcement and the women and men who danger their lives to protect it.
Whether or not it’s her help for funding extra police, her opposition to cashless bail for harmful criminals or her efforts to handle the migrant disaster, Mazi Pilip has been unwavering in her struggle to maintain New Yorkers secure and help the women and men of regulation enforcement.
Merely put, her marketing campaign rhetoric matches her previous actions. She’s been a constant voice of motive in a sea of political panderers.
For this reason the law-enforcement organizations that serve her district help Mazi Pilip. For this reason former Rep. Peter King — the best public-safety advocate New York has ever had in Congress — helps her.
Mazi Pilip’s opponent, Tom Suozzi, is a profession politician who’s saying all the suitable issues. However when he was Nassau County government, he pushed deep cuts to regulation enforcement.
When he served in Congress and the political winds shifted in his celebration, he sought to establish with the “Squad” of US representatives main efforts to defund police departments.
We merely can not danger hoping that he’ll match his actions to his latest rhetoric. We can’t be positive if the partisan political winds of Washington will once more blow him off the course New Yorkers want him to observe. The disparity between his current rhetoric and his previous conduct compels us to look elsewhere for somebody to struggle for the protection of our communities and our households.
For this reason the SBA is proud to face with many different distinguished regulation enforcement professionals in help of Mazi Pilip. She is the suitable candidate on the proper time for New York.
Vincent J. Vallelong is president of the 13,000-member New York Metropolis Sergeants Benevolent Affiliation.