NYPD investigates possible POISONING of three officers at a Shake Shack after their 'shakes were filled with bleach'

The NYPD are investigating a potential hate crime, in the suspected poisoning of three officers at a New York Shake Shack.

The department believes an employee may have contaminated the officer's milkshakes with bleach.

The three cops were rushed to hospital where they are being treated. Their conditions are unknown.

Sources told CBS New York that employees at the Shake Shack on Boradway and Fulton Street, Manhattan, are being interviewed but no arrests have been made.

Samples of the milkshakes have been taken for testing.

The NYC's Patrolmen's Benelovent Assocation has issued a statement warning officers to beware of food they have not prepared themselves.

'When NYC police officers cannot even take meal without coming under attack, it is clear that environment in which we work has deteriorated to a critical level. We cannot afford to let our guard down for even a moment,' they said.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8425057/NYPD-investigates-possible-poisoning-three-officers-Shake-Shack.html

They may not be perfect, they are only human after all, as the song says. The police and laws are the only thing between us and chaos. If law and order breaks down, even the agitators, or the easily led might be the word for most of them, won't like the consequences one bit.

Vintage wrote:The police and laws are the only thing between us and chaos.

That's not true.  I believe most people want to be civilized, and will be so if left to their own devises.

The police have moved away from mainstream America, at least, and they need to be reminded that there are no special laws just for them.

But that hardly justifies such vigilante actions as this.  There is no such thing as 'payback', as that is exactly what the police do to the black community.  If you want to be like them, don't assume the moral high ground.  The Xanadu is stick with the code and never move outside.

'If left to their own devices' - are the local criminals, thugs and the vigilantes going to get a memo telling them that they will have to behave because there's no law and order?
No one will be looting from businesses or even houses, no one is going to steal your car when they feel like just because they can. You'll be able to walk the streets at night without fear of assault, - ok if you say so.

Vintage wrote:'If left to their own devices' - are the local criminals, thugs and the vigilantes going to get a memo telling them that they will have to behave because there's no law and order?
No one will be looting from businesses or even houses, no one is going to steal your car when they feel like just because they can. You'll be able to walk the streets at night without fear of assault, - ok if you say so.

In many, many cases, the only difference between bad cops and the crooks is which side of the badge they are on. I think the first priority is to sort out the good people from the bad people.

The "criminals, thugs and the vigilantes" are the same element as "bad and racists cops". When we can identify those types, and move them out of society, then we will be on the right path.

But police unions prohibit even a public listing of bad cops. They get fired, and they simply move to the next town down the road; their record doesn't follow them. Chrissake, we have a sexual offenders list, and that works very well. Why not a police offenders list? Is the only difference that the "criminals, thugs and the vigilantes" don't have a union?

That's rather obvious if we could remove bad people from society we wouldn't need cops, what would we do with the bad people though and what happens when more bad people come into being in society, who exactly decides then who are the bad guys and the bad cops. If law and order did break down and it has in some countries with dire results for the decent people in those societies, would you really feel that you and yours would be safe without that law and order.

Vintage wrote:That's rather obvious if we could remove bad people from society we wouldn't need cops, what would we do with the bad people though and what happens when more bad people come into being in society, who exactly decides then who are the bad guys and the bad cops. If law and order did break down and it has in some countries with dire results for the decent people in those societies, would you really feel that you and yours would be safe without that law and order.

Well, if the 'bad people' are the 'law and order', yes I would feel better off without them.

That is very nearly the case in black neighborhoods in the US.  If the cops are not exactly the bad people, they are certainly not doing any good. That's why we need to stretch our thinking...to think about eliminating bad people, and not just cozy up to people in blue with badges.

There are bad people in both groups. The cops have to be divorced, in our conception, from good in the community. They are useful, but that is a far cry from saying they are heroes. The truth is, they are our employees. There are good employees, and there are bad employees. It's a piss-poor manager who bows and genuflects to his employees, no matter who they are. Pretty soon they are deciding the hours and what the company makes, and everything else goes out the window.