Cops retire in record numbers.

0:00 Speaker 1 What’s going on in New York City. Well, I’m trying to get the truth because so many politicians tell me, Oh, arrests are down, and I hear arrest I’m not really down. A lot of NYPD officers are not really arresting anybody.

0:18 What is today is a retired police Captain Edward Mammett, and he’s got his ears to the ground and knows what’s really going on. Captain Mammitt tell us, I hear that arrests are down, but that’s because nobody’s arresting anybody.

0:39 Speaker 2 Well, there’s a lot of truth to that. Arrest are down. Morale is terrible, and one of the problems they’re having today is the cops are being forced to work more over time than they ever did. Now. There was a time when they loved the overtime because it was extra money in their pocket. But now they’re being their day’s

0:57 offer canceled. They lost time they can’t take and a lot of these single cops, you know, they want to date, they want to have fun, and they’re being forced to work and they’re tired. So the morale is really really down.

1:09 And as far as the rest go, they’re disenchanted because they realize that every time they make an arrest, you know, there’s there’s no bail. The person that they arrested is out quickly, and they see them again out on the street and they arrest them again. So it’s like a hopeless course and they just gave up. They’ll make their

1:26 over time and go home, go to sweep, and come back and work again.

1:30 Speaker 1 I understand, and I you know, I’ve talked to several police officers myself, and you know they’re not allowed to talk because you know, they’re gonna get disciplined if they talk to the press. And they they’re scared to arrest anybody.

1:45 They’re scared and getting in trouble for arresting somebody because somebody’s always taping them. Not that they’re doing anything wrong, but these sinuations are many, many insinuations we put out there, and.

2:00 Speaker 2 There are so many restrictions. You know, the city council passed these ridiculous laws in the name of racial equality to that hinder the police. You have the Chess compression law that if a police officer applies the force the wrong way, he’s subject to will arrest. You have this they’re taking away by the city council of qualified immunity,

2:23 which protected offices from liability suits. You have some other laws. You know, the city council is not supporting the police department, so the cops feel they’re boxed in, you know, they’re forced into over time, they’re afraid to make arrest because of the of the restrictions they’re under and so, and there’s no leadership from the top of the police department.

2:41 So everything has gone astray.

2:45 Speaker 1 Retirements are they up? What do you hear?

2:49 Speaker 2 Yes, for many reasons. One of it is many of the cops don’t see a future in the City of New York anymore, so they don’t stay like I did. I stayed forty years. They’re twenty or less and they get out. Not only that, they’re making so much over time that’s pensionable, so with all that overtime, it pays

3:10 for them to retire. So you know, it’s hurting the city in another way. You’re paying these camps over time, but the pension cost you know, are out there. So that and the fact that recruitment is low because people don’t see a future in the police. So there’s a problem all around.

3:29 Speaker 1 What would you like to tell them In New Yorker you’ve lived in New York all your life. You served How many years were you at the NYPD?

3:35 Speaker 2 Thirty nine years, nine months, six days.

3:38 Speaker 1 Wow, you didn’t you didn’t do you didn’t complete forty years.

3:46 Speaker 2 I was about three months short, But I say forty. It’s easier than to say thirty nine ninety six.

3:52 Speaker 1 And is that still going on or people in that police officers I understand is big recruit and on for them to go to North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida.

4:05 Speaker 2 Oh yeah, the other states. They love to have New York City cops because the cops are well trained. They bring in, they import a cops from New York. They have someone who’s well trained, they can probably put them right out there on the street. And they offer better, better benefits, you know, high salaries, and you know they’re

4:25 probably much more supportive of their police, especially a state like Florida. You know they backed the cops all the way.

4:31 Speaker 1 Understood well, Captain Mammott, thank you for your service, thank you for everything you’ve done. And you know something even more important, thank you. In your retirement, you’re able to tell all New York City people the truth. And that’s what WABC stands for is the truth. Thank you so much.

4:49 Speaker 2 And let me thank you for allowing Kevin Choulder and I to be on your radio shows.

4:55 Speaker 1 And tell us about your podcast on WABC radio dot com.

4:59 Speaker 2 You have been graciously have given us that is on weekly and we interview people from all over the world regarding major issues and law enforcement, crime and so on. And it’s called cop Talk and it’s recorded weekly and it usually plays every Tuesday.

5:18 Speaker 1 And thank you so much. Thank you