Protocol dictates that a commissioner be fired by the person who hired him. In this case the Mayor, not a deputy. That's the bottom line. We may not have liked the job the commissioner did but if tat's the case then the Mayor should be man enough to do his own dirty work.
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Leave it to a Boston Red Sox fan, out-of-town hobnobbing with the Progressive elite angling for his next chapter to have his Deputy run amok and derail his plans to replace his top two at OEM. Perpetually late, he defended to the bitter end his Corrections Commissioner who dialed it in from his back deck in Maine with his taxpayer owned and expensed car in the driveway while his officers were being pummeled on Riker’s Island. Politics aside, he wouldn’t last a week at Bloomberg Inc.
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Calvin Drayton is an honorable gentleman, but neither he nor Joseph Esposito is to be faulted for the City's abject response to that snowfall.
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Not a Blaz fan but how much of this coverage is being driven by Mayor’s Office and how much by Esposito himself and his insider supporters (e.g., reports that Espo personally handled a rabbi’s funeral traffic over the weekend)? The story within the story — who is talking to the Times and why — is important to public assessment of the situation.
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Six inches of snow should not stop traffic. Any car with decent tires can manage that, not to mention buses. People need to know to slow down and use caution. Driver education is what is needed.
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Philadelphia is a few armchairs away to play Quarterback. You weren’t here. There was freezing rain mixing in on unsalted, unplowed roads.
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It took me 6 hours to get home from Yonkers to the UWS on November 15th. No emergency crew, police official or sanitation seen during any part of my odyssey. The only thing working after abandoning my car was Metro-North and the subway. DeBlasio, the biggest deflector in NYC politics, has lost all credibility. And I voted for him twice!
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DiBlasio's administration is a train wreck. He defended the criminal and tragic dishonesty of the former NYCHA head, and appointee Trottenberg as DOT honcho which has led to chaos in our streets and rogue bus lines speeding through town and dumping tons of their behomeths curbside everywhere. And we must brace for the onslaught of dockless motorized bikes and scooters littering the landscape when they are not mowing down pedestrians on sidewalks.
The mayor won't confront the spiraling NYPD scandals and incompetence, including their vanishing act during the recent blizzard, but is happy to can Esposito. Disgraceful.
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I am entitled to an opinion and it is in sharp contrast to the men that have come forward to comment and I am sure did not fear censorship by the NY Times!
The NYDN ran a shocking photo when Chief Esposito was chief of dept with what can be described as a "banned" chokehold on a diminutive Occuppy Wall street young woman! The kind of choke hold that lead to Eric Garner's death!
How and why did Esposito come to be re-hired after that photo, also after participating in the largest arrest of protesters ever in the history of the city of New York and also was also chief thru part of a starling number of Stop and Frisks under Ray Kelly, possibbly one such Stop and Frisk elevated to what most of us could imagine as hand written from Riker's in a pro se lawsuit, in graphic detail by Eric Garner under Ray Kelly and the mayor was Bloomberg so how does Mr Esposito hold such special time and space with de Blasio...?
Mr Esposito appears Teflon with City Council even ignoring what appears to me a horrific lack of accountability by Ray Kelly's number 1!
I have some theories but I'll stop here because I fear censorship I don't even know if this comment will be posted...
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De Blasio's main talent is delegating and reorganizing, in an effort to show voters he is working whether or not change is needed. I am still mystified as to why he was re-elected.
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The snowfall was a mess. Was the response inadequate? I'm not sure.
But da blasio admin is a mess with a thus far inadequate response.
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If it ain't broke... I'm not aware of anything that the office has done wrong, and they are constantly doing things right with a myriad of issues that seldom even get into the paper. So why this, and why now?
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