When the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association’s rhetoric sounds like it’s coming from the old Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park, it’s a pretty good sign that things haven’t gone the union’s way in its contract-arbitration battle.
There must have been a certain culture shock for readers of the New York Post to pick up the Nov. 4 edition of the tabloid and find a full-page ad that read, “With his fancy Upper East Side penthouse and Nantucket vacation spot, Howard Edelman is the poster boy for the wealthy ‘one-percenters’ who have made their fortune off of the backs of hard-working New Yorkers.” It was as if The Revolution had arrived, only cops were leading the charge rather than girding themselves to repel it.
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