Many police officers turn their back while Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at the funeral of NYPD officers Wenjian Liu. This, despite please from the police commissioner not to protest at funerals.

The Politics of the NYPD's Standoff With City Hall

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 9, 2015

As police-issued summonses slow to a trickle, Leonard Levitt, NYPD Confidential columnist and author of NYPD Confidential: Power and Corruption in the Country's Greatest Police Force (Thomas Dunne Books, 2009), discusses the politics of the NYPD's standoff with Mayor de Blasio, including what police officers and the PBA want from the mayor, and how the police essentially ignoring 'broken windows' factors in. Then, Clare Sestanovich, researcher and writer for The Marshall Project, puts police department protests in a national and historical context - from a Boston Police Department strike in 1919, when Calvin Coolidge was the Massachusetts governor to the NYPD's "blue flu" in 1971.

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