'Morbid' PBA Campaign Turns Sorrowfully Ripe

A cop I’ll call Sean, asked a few days before two cops were murdered his reaction to Pat Lynch’s asking Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association members to sign a letter telling Mayor de Blasio they didn’t want him attending their funerals if they died in the line of duty, replied, “To me, it was like a sign of desperation. It seemed kind of macabre and morbid.”

The veteran officer is not, by any means, a fan of the Mayor, and his saying that the dislike extended across much of the department explained why the PBA president, despite being chastised by Cardinal Timothy Dolan for trying to politicize what the leader of the New York Archdiocese referred to in the Daily News as “a sacred occasion meant to unite us,” probably didn’t lose many votes among his rank and file.