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Five most recent columns

February 6, 2012
The NYPD Top Brass: Lonely and Unloved
In yet another slap at the NYPD’s demoralized top brass, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has abolished a top three-star chief’s job, giving it instead to an obscure civilian.

January 30, 2012
Mr. Truth: Time To Go
Deputy Commissioner for Public Information Paul Browne, known to readers of this column as Mr. Truth, your expiration date is past due. It is time for you to depart the NYPD.

January 23, 2012
Eight Years Too Late
We would like to apologize for past warnings not to believe more than 50 per cent of anything that emanates from the mouth of police spokesman Paul Browne. We were far too generous.

January 16, 2012
Who’s the Real Chicken?
Rupert Murdoch may have called Governor Andrew Cuomo “chicken” for refusing to take on the city’s teachers’ union. But, judging from his latest State of the City address last week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg sounds like the real chicken for refusing to take on Ray Kelly.

January 8, 2012
The Spoils of Spying
Now that the Associate Press investigation of the NYPD’s widespread spying on the city’s Muslims has apparently run its course, what’s been the result?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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