This piece raises some huge questions! For one: what are the editorial standards that would allow you to print a whole story about cops quitting the NYPD without a single named officer quoted on record, and will those standards now be adopted at CBS News?
“It’s shaken me to my core,” a lieutenant said of Mamdani’s unexpected victory in June. “The absolute dread I feel is palpable.” Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November: https://t.co/O6SCWXmecc
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Maybe it’s true! Maybe not (this is where knowing something of history becomes useful). That’s just not the standard for publication most of us are held to.
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By my count I see one unnamed source (and a reference to other officers). They didn’t even get the head of the PBA to say that other people would quit!
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@alex_sammon why would an officer put his name on the record and a target on his back? maybe this is in the know reporter stuff, but i wasn't aware anonymous sources were all that rare?
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