If there a job in this world where it is more acceptable to spend the entire 8 hours you are on the clock yapping on a cell phone than an NYPD officer, I've yet to find it. I have to say that it is very discouraging when on a day when city services like subways are closed, streets are flooded, trees are down and people are trying to get back to their evacuated homes and to see a bunch of guys standing on a street corner yapping on their phones with absolutely no regard of the overall situation. You just know these guys are all on time-and-a-half on a day like this and when I see guys huddled in a bagel shop or surfing the web, I really wonder if Ray Kelly has completely lost his troops.. When your job where your main objective is to be vigilant with your eyes and ears open, how is this acceptable behavior. You don't see the toll collector at the GWB texting, you don't even see the pimpled faced kid working at Burger King have this kind of disregard for his responsibility and you sure as hell don't see the average guy who goes to work get away with spending their entire workday conversing on a phone. Obviously everybody appreciates everything cops do for us everyday and this is in no way a knock on the heroes from 9/11 but it is becoming a complete epidemic; walk around NYC and every cop on the corner is either texting, standing in a circle shooting the shit or talking on a cell-phone.
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