Mullins has a hostile relationship with city mayor Bill de Blasio and the city council and has complained that New York City is in decline because of increased permissiveness over vagrancy, urinating in public, smoking marijuana on the street and homelessness. The union has planned to then, “notify our public officials in writing of what is being observed”, union President Ed Mullins wrote in the e-mail.
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Among the policing bills the City Council has introduced is the Right to Know Act, which would require NYPD officers to offer their full name, rank, precinct and Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) number, as well as to obtain verbal or written consent before searching someone they stop if there is no warrant or probable cause for a search.
“We are the good guys”, the letter repeatedly said.
Police officers are not allowed to take photos of members of the public while on duty, so Mullins wrote that photos can be taken while traveling to and from work or any time while off duty.
Mullins added that the presence of the homeless is a direct results of de Blasio’s “failed insurance policies, [which have led to] extra homeless encampments on metropolis streets, a 10 % improve in homicides, and the diminishing of our hard-earned and well-deserved public notion of the most secure giant metropolis in America”, the stated.
After mocking the legislative proposals, Mullins describes the new campaign.
The Sergeants Benevolent Association has launched a campaign called “Peek-a-boo, I see you” and has created a Flickr page filled with images of many New Yorkers at their most vulnerable – sleeping rough or begging for money or food.
The campaign is called “Peek-a-Boo, We See You!” but Ganley said there’s nothing “gotcha” about it. Dozens of photos of the city’s homeless cover the home page. They claim they are not trying to shame the homeless people themselves.
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Bieber referred all further questions to Mullins, who did not immediately respond.
