{"id":939068,"date":"2021-10-29T20:14:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=939068"},"modified":"2021-10-29T20:14:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:14:25","slug":"mass-nypd-retirements-expected-as-vaccine-mandate-deadline-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mass-nypd-retirements-expected-as-vaccine-mandate-deadline-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass NYPD Retirements Expected as Vaccine Mandate Deadline Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmass-nypd-retirements-expected-as-vaccine-mandate-deadline-looms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=939068&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1218885770-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The New York Police Department (NYPD) is preparing for a \u201cpotential mass exodus\u201d over far-left Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandate, the <em>New York Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/28\/nypd-preparing-for-slew-of-retirements-amid-vaccine-mandate\/\">reported<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, police officials issued several memos on Thursday for police officers who wish to retire rather than get jabbed and reserved an auditorium on Friday&nbsp; \u201cfor the NYC Police Pension Fund to process retirement paperwork with at least 20 years on the job.\u201d Anyone who has worked less than 20 years and wishes to resign is&nbsp; being asked to come to the auditorium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is to assist members who wish to retire due to the vaccination mandates,\u201d the memo read, according to the report.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Police officers must show proof they have received at least one shot by 5 p.m. on Friday \u2014 employees who do not comply will be put on unpaid leave beginning Monday. As of Thursday, at least 25 percent of NYPD employees remained unvaccinated.&nbsp;The mandate also applies to&nbsp;firefighters, garbage collectors, and most other city workers.<\/p>\n<p><span>A police source slammed the \u201chaphazard communications\u201d about the \u201cretirement scramble,\u201d noting that officials issued the memos just four days before the requirement goes into effect.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThis it\u2019s just comical now,\u201d the source told the <em>Post<\/em>. \u201cThis is all a mess.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The head of the Detective Endowment\u2019s Association (DEA) told <em>Post <\/em>that&nbsp;9,000 to 10,000 NYPD members are eligible to retire or \u201cvest out,\u201d meaning they could opt for a&nbsp; \u201cdelayed and lesser retirement package,\u201d the report states. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere was no reason to rush this,\u201d said DEA President Paul DiGiacomo, noting that the mandate could have a \u201cdevastating effect on public safety\u201d if the department loses too many employees.&nbsp;<\/span><span>DiGiacomo told the publication:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p><span>The only reason the mayor is rushing this is for his own political gain. He\u2019s got intentions of running for governor and he has nothing to hang his hat on right now other than to say he has the most vaccinations in the country by forcing people to do it.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>President of the Police Benevolent Association Pat Lynch said de Blasio\u2019s mandate \u201csets the city up for a real crisis,\u201d the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-health-police-new-york-new-york-city-52cc12e52d33f664e8e144aa59436590\">reported<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAndrew Ansbro, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, warned longer response times will \u2018be a death sentence to some people,\u201d\u2019 the report continued.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The mayor insisted during a virtual news briefing that his job and the purpose of the vaccine mandate is to \u201ckeep people safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>&nbsp;\u201cAnd until we defeat COVID, people are not safe. If we don\u2019t stop COVID, New Yorkers will die,\u201d he said, not noting that first responders kept the public safe and bore the brunt of the pandemic before vaccines were even available.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Wednesday, a Staten Island judge rejected the police union\u2019s request for a temporary restraining order on the mandate. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, \u201cshe ordered city officials into her courtroom next month to explain why the requirement shouldn\u2019t be reversed. If the mandate is deemed illegal, workers put on leave will be given back pay\u2026\u201d according to the report.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Police Department (NYPD) is preparing for a \u201cpotential mass exodus\u201d over far-left Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandate, the New York Post reported on Thursday. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}