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January 21–25 • Javits Center Pre-shop, tickets and details at NYBoatShow.com Produced by Find us on America’s First Boat Show www.metro.us Weekend, January 16-18, 2015 NEW YORK 2 Sharpton, PBA’s Lynch 1 equally despised in city New poll. New NEWS Yorkers were asked their thoughts Top 3 on Pat Lynch The best and Al Sharpton. of There may be no love lost Metro.us between police union lead- er Pat Lynch and the Rev. Al Tsarnaev’s hipster Sharpton, but a new poll 1look courts con- showed New Yorkers are troversy over both. A Quinnipiac Univer- Crappier roles sity Poll released Thursday 2 threaten Oscar found 77 percent of New nominees Yorkers found Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association DAILY VIDEO One President Patrick Lynch’s Protesters against police violence marched through lower Manhattan Thursday / BESS ADLER, METRO 3 last thing about blaming of City Hall for the Bieber under- the murders of two cops in By the numbers nited last summer with Lynch mob wear stuff Brooklyn last month “too the death of Eric Garner, extreme.” after which de Blasio sat be- Only 18 percent of the 43% tween Sharpton and NYPD • 77 percent of New York- • Only 18 percent of 1,182 New York City voters Commissioner Bill Bratton ers say Lynch’s blaming those polled gave Lynch polled gave Lynch a favor- New Yorkers who see PBA chief Pat at a City Hall roundtable on of City Hall for the a favorable review, able review, while 43 per- Lynch as a “negative force” policing. murders of two cops in while 29 percent gave cent said he was a negative Bratton, whose ap- Brooklyn last month is Sharpton a favorable force in the city. proval numbers sank days “too extreme.” review. The PBA did not imme- 51% before the shooting deaths diately return requests for New Yorkers who see Rev. Al Sharp- of Officers Wenjian Liu and comment. ton as a “negative force” Rafael Ramos, surged to a A racial divide persists Asked to comment on Police gadfly Sharpton 56 percent approval across on de Blasio’s handling of the low approval ratings fared slightly better — demographics from 44 per- the policing crisis, with of Lynch and Sharpton, de with a 29 percent favorabil- in a statement. cent. 61 percent of white voters Blasio’s press office said: ity rating for the MSNBC “Essentially, over two- “Maybe it’s sympathy blaming him for the con- “The mayor is commit- host. Even so, 51 percent thirds of blacks in New for a guy in a tough posi- flict between City Hall and ted to keeping crime low, of those polled thought York City view Rev. Sharp- tion, a commissioner lead- police. Sixty-nine percent ensuring the brave men Sharpton was a negative ton as a positive force,” said ing a defiant department,” of black voters blamed the and women of the NYPD force. National Action Network Carroll wrote. police. have the tools needed to “It’s an incongruous spokesperson Jacky John- The poll also asked re- Latino voters were split, keep them safe on the pairing, but Lynch and Rev. son in response to the re- spondents about officers with 45 percent blaming job, and bringing police Al Sharpton, the outspo- sults. “They feel he has the turning their backs on de de Blasio and 42 percent and community closer to- ken police critic, share in right amount of influence Blasio three times after the police. gether.” On the go the negative judgments of in the mayor’s office.” Liu and Ramos murders. The poll, which was New Yorkers,” Quinnipiac Tensions between An overwhelming 69 per- conducted between Jan. 7 CHESTER SORIA University Poll Assistant Di- Lynch and Sharpton go cent of New York voters dis- and 14, has a plus or minus @chestersoria Want to read [email protected] Metro on your rector Maurice Carroll said back years but were reig- approved of the about face. 2.9 percent margin of error. mobile device? Get the app! All you have to do is search for Metro Cops, Council spar over chokehold US in the App Store or Google Play New York’s City Council inappropriate, totally un- ceptable.” NYPD got $12 million to to get all the latest will add $7.3 million to necessary, misguided, and The flak jacket plan buy 18,000 new vests over in news, the NYPD’s next budget uninformed.” Chokeholds comes as tempers appear two years. for new bulletproof vests, are already banned by to be calming in a feud This past weekend sports, lifestyle Council Speaker Melissa NYPD regulations. that has the Patrolmen’s The New York Daily News and entertainment Mark-Viverito said in a Mayor Bill de Blasio Benevolent Association and DNAinfo reported for free. statement Thursday, while said he’d veto any bill facing off against de Blasio that the PBA delegates Police Commissioner Bill making chokeholds a and Mark-Viverito. Some demanded union chief Pat Bratton said his officers crime. “I’m not going to cops say the pair do not Lynch ratchet down the need support from the create a situation where support police. feud and focus on officer City Council, not a new an officer is in that life At about $600 each, safety — including new law making chokeholds and death struggle, and, the funds would buy at flak jackets. illegal. thank God, survives – least 10,000 new vests. Currently, officers Bratton said a bill to and then faces criminal The last appropria- must pay $400 out of make the chokeholds charges,” de Blasio said tion for bullet proof vests pocket to replace outdated Mark-Viverito / GETTY IMAGES illegal was “totally Thursday. “That’s unac- came In 2006 when the vests. CHESTER JESUS SORIA www.metro.us www.metro.us January 21–25 • Javits Center America’s First Boat Show GREATGREAT SELECTION!SELECTION! BRANDSBRANDS YOUYOU WANT!WANT! BEST PLACE TO SEE AND BUY BOATS! America’s first boat show! 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Wage increase. to police sexually assaulted at least When he pushed the The NYPD says Ismaaiyl fi ve women in Manhattan woman’s pants down, Workers at the Brinsley acted alone since early December. she screamed and the wholesale food when he killed Detec- All the known victims man ran off . Police tives Rafael Ramos and were women entering described the attacker as market want $5 a Wenjian Liu on Dec. 20. apartment buildings in the a dark-skinned man aged day salary hike. The Daily News fi rst early morning, police said. 20 to 25, about 5-foot- reported the NYPD The latest assault oc- 4, weighing 150 to 180 reviewed surveillance curred Jan.