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NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Once again Mayor Eric Adams is making strange new rules for police officers, rather than locking up criminals.
NYPD patrolmen have been ordered not to engage in chit-chat on duty, and the rule appears to have come directly from Adams, a former cop.
A memo was released this week, telling officers not to “congregate” or engage in “unnecessary conversation” — just weeks after Adams criticized officers for chatting on the job, according to the NY Post.
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“Do not congregate, or engage in unnecessary conversation, with other members of the service while on post, absent police necessity,” the order states, addressing police officers.
NYPD cops ordered not to ‘congregate’ or converse on city streets, memo shows; Mayor Eric Adams chastised officers on the street for chatting on the job.
Throwing cops under the bus. Letting criminals go free. Thousands leaving, thousands more on the way out.

— Conservative American (@honor_country) August 24, 2022
Earlier this month, a video posted on social media showed Adams pointing to officers on a street corner in Manhattan and telling supervisors that “they should not all be congregating together.”
“How about scattering out, so we ensure safety and deploy personnel?” Adams said. “We have not been deploying our personnel correctly.”
In response to the arcane rule, Police Benevolent Association president Pat Lynch observed that soon there will not be enough officers to congregate anyway because so many are quitting.
A Manhattan officer blasted the mayor for focusing on silly rules rather than the surge in crime. “Worry about crime in the city and stop worrying about cops congregating,” he said. “Worry about your transit system and how it’s out of control. Worry about your shootings. Officers can’t even walk around their own neighborhood without getting their ass kicked.”
This wasn’t the first time Adams, a former NYPD captain, interfered with officer patrols. In May, he ordered them to begin solo patrols in the extremely dangerous subway system.
That rule was quickly changed one day later, after a detective was assaulted while on solo duty.
If Adams (or any other Democrat) would recommend that people should brush their teeth at least once daily or put on a sweater when it’s chilly outside, I think “Yaakov M” will write an article about it, either directly or indirectly ridiculing the recommendation.
The Mayor has a point. There are times and situations where two are less than one + one. For example, when kids are being babysat, most accidents happen when multiple babysitters were together at a park or pool.
I am actually pro-cop and obviously there are significant dangers to cops and all people today.
Disgrace mayor step down you are not doing. Your job .. its getting worse day by day in the jungle …
He’s not the police commissioner. He’s the mayor.
don’t blame me, I voted for Sliwa
Another do nothing mayor. NYC deserves what it gets. A Woke mayor afraid or incapable of doing anything but buggy at night
We need Guliani back in NYC
I agree with the Mayor, cops should not socialize as if they’re off duty. I have witnessed people being ignored by police officers who were on duty but behaving like they were off duty. I am very pro Police, but we all need to be policed, on some level, and this includes police officers as well.
What will he do next? Ban cops from going to donut shops?
I initially believed that Adams was a Dinkins clone. Now I believe he is the progeny of Koch and DiBlasio.
the real problem is bail reform wich adam has no power to change and there for we have all these and there is nothing he can do about it, not realy his fault regarding this issue
What does he think that the police are in shul and should not shmuz.