memeorandum: Email circulated among cops: 2 cars respond to every call (New York Post)

11:05 AM ET, December 22, 2014

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Howard Safir / TIME:

Anti-Police Rhetoric Unlike Anything I've Seen in 45 Years — Howard Safir is the former commissioner of the New York City Police Department (1996-2000) and Chairman and CEO of Vigilant Resources International (VRI). — We have seen nothing but police bashing from some of the highest offices in the land.

Discussion: Balloon Juice and National Review

Justin Sink / The Hill:

Obama's ‘propaganda’ pushed people to ‘hate the police,’ Giuliani says — President Obama has engaged in “propaganda” encouraging people to “hate the police,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) charged a day after two New York City police officers were shot and killed in their patrol car …

Discussion: TIME, Taylor Marsh, Political Wire, Hot Air and Politico

Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:

The Importance of Treating NYPD Officers as Individuals — On the outrageous murder of two cops and the faction trying to exploit their deaths for political leverage — At 28-years-old, Ismaaiyl Brinsley had been arrested 19 times and served 2 years in prison.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, New York Post, New York Times and The Federalist

Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine:

As Police Die, Racism Narrative Unravels — Any conversation about the murders of two New York City Police officers this weekend must start by acknowledging the ordinary heroism of law enforcement personnel that puts them in harm's way every day. We should then acknowledge …

Discussion: RedState

Bill Madden / NY Daily News:

Yankees will pay for education of children of NYPD cop Rafael Ramos who was killed while on duty Saturday — George Steinbrenner's Yankee Silver Shield Foundation has, for 32 years, provided for the education of the children of New York City cops, firefighters and Port Authority employees who were killed in the line.

Discussion: Fox News, UPROXX, Guns.com, New York's PIX11, BizPac Review, Mediaite, TPNN and National Review

New York Times:

New York Officers' Killer, Adrift and Ill, Had a Plan — Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who had drifted between friends and family members for most of his short life, alienating most of them and failing at almost anything that he tried, decided to come home on Saturday.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Mediaite, Shakesville and Bloomberg Politics

Justin Sink / The Hill:
NAACP chief: Don't blame Democrats for NYPD shootings

Discussion: Truth Revolt and The Gateway Pundit

Tom Hays / Associated Press:
Police departments on alert after cop killings

Discussion: Today, NPR, ABC News and Slantpoint

Trevor Eischen / Politico:
Giuliani condemns anti-police ‘propaganda’ he says Obama started

Discussion: The Hill, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, National Review and Power Line

Dave Urbanski / TheBlaze.com:
‘NYPD Gets What They Deserve’: Here's How Some Celebrated the Shooting Deaths of Two Ambushed …

Discussion: DNAinfo New York, Scared Monkeys, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, New York's PIX11, Washington Free Beacon, The PJ Tatler, Yahoo! News and Twitchy

New York Post:
Police turn their back on de Blasio

Discussion: Salon, New York Times, Fox News Insider, 7online.com, The Daily Banter, Roger's Rules, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, LewRockwell, Fox News and Ed Driscoll

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Seizes On NYC Cop Killing To Bash Obama

Discussion: Hullabaloo

M.L. Nestel / The Daily Beast:
Anger at The Cop Killer - And The Police

Discussion: American Spectator, Mediaite and Hot Air

NY Daily News:
Lupica: NYPD killings come as some think cops are the real threat

Discussion: Mediaite

New York Times:

Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses — Since the day President Obama took office, he has failed to bring to justice anyone responsible for the torture of terrorism suspects — an official government program conceived and carried out in the years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Weekly Standard, Balloon Juice, PoliticusUSA and Raw Story

Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:

How Obama Took Sony's Crisis From Bad to Worse — If there are such a thing as textbooks in the field of crisis management, the Sony Pictures hack might end up in the chapter labeled “Worst Case Scenario.” — But as much as Sony seemed to mishandle its sorry situation in recent days …

Discussion: Hot Air

Reuters:
China condemns cyberattacks, but does not mention North Korea

Discussion: Yahoo! News, The Week, VentureBeat and Deadline

Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
Hollywood's fickle friend

Discussion: The Hill

Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
The United States of Anxiety

Discussion: VodkaPundit and Ed Driscoll

Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:

US Corps Claim Billions In Assets In Cuba And Now They'll Want It Back — When the Castro regime assumed power in Cuba in 1959, it quickly nationalized the assets of almost every foreign corporation within its borders as the country transitioned to communism.

Discussion: New York Times

Kimberly Redmond / New Jersey Online:

Man dressed as elf charged with DWI — RIVERDALE - A man dressed as one of Santa's little helpers found himself in trouble Friday morning when Riverdale police allegedly discovered him drunkenly passed out in a car. — Around 3:30 a.m., Sgt. Pat Harden was dispatched to the parking lot …

Discussion: UPI, Gawker, UPROXX, Scared Monkeys, Truth Revolt and Gothamist

James Hohmann / Politico:

RGA's McKay and Gitcho form consulting firm — The Republican Governors Association's political director and communications director are leaving the group to start their own political consulting firm. — Ken McKay and Gail Gitcho will consult for political campaigns and corporations …

Jeff Kolkey / Rockford Register Star:

Family stunned as Rockford police investigate quadruple homicide, including 2 kids — Video from the scene of a quadruple homicide in the 3200 block of Montrose Avenue in Rockford. Video by Jeff Kolkey. — » RELATED CONTENT

Discussion: Associated Press, ABC News and FOX2now.com

Manu Raju / Politico:

Tea partier braces for primary challenge from the establishment — Mike Lee's position back home is turning the GOP civil war on its head. — Tea party favorite Mike Lee roiled the GOP establishment four years ago when he knocked off a sitting senator on his way to the Republican Senate nomination in Utah.