NYPD Boss Ray Kelly Gets High Marks From New Yorkers: Poll
Thursday, February 09, 2012 - 11:45 AM
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Police Commissioner Ray Kelly (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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Police Commissioner Ray Kelly scores high for job performance despite recent flare-ups in the press over surveillance efforts targeting Muslim communities and his role in a controversial anti-Muslim film, according to a poll of New York City voters.
The latest poll by Quinnipiac University Polling Institute found that 62 percent of voters approved of Kelly’s performance, while 24 percent disapprove. That’s down 4 percentage points from the last poll conducted on December 14.
Among white voters, the numbers are even higher with 73 percent approving of Kelly’s performance, compared with 14 percent who disapprove. The numbers dip among voters non-white voters, with 52 – 36 percent approval among black voters and 57 – 27 approval percent among Hispanic voters.
In particular, voters give the department high marks for dealing with terrorism threats to the city, with 77 percent supporting their work, and strong support among all groups.
“Despite a wave of criticism and calls for his resignation, support for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly remains strong,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. “New Yorkers say cops are doing a good job, especially fighting terrorism, and reject 2-1 the claim that cops pick on Muslims.”
Sixty percent of voters also say the NYPD has acted “appropriately” in dealing with Muslims, while 24 percent say police have “unfairly targeted Muslims.”
The poll was conducted from January 30 to February 5. Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,222 New York City voters. The margin of error of is plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
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Want to know exactly how Ray Kelly covers up a crime?
www.wunnysheu.blogspot.com
Sunny Sheu, was a victim of mortgage fraud, who discovered that a NY Supreme Court Judge was complicit in the fraud that stole his home.
He was officially scheduled to testify at a NY State Senate hearing on Judicial Corruption, but before he could testify, he was abducted by two NYPD detectives and threatened with death if he "went to the authorities".
Sunny requested witness protection from the FBI and posted a video on Youtube predicting his murder by the judge and the NYPD.
Days later, on June 26th 2010, Sunny was found bludgeoned to death on a dead end street in Flushing Queens.
Hours after his death, the NYPD illegally removed his body and sent it to the Medical Examiner with a note saying he had died of an "aneurysm" and that there was "no criminality".
The Medical examiner disagreed and ruled the cause of death "Blunt force trauma to the Head with skull fractures and brain injuries." and the manner of death "undetermined", making a criminal investigation mandatory.
There has been no investigation.
The NYPD has violated NY State law by denying FOIL request for information regarding Sunny's death.
The case is thoroughly detailed and documented at:
www.sunnysheu.blogspot.com
On May 18th, 2011, the Blackstar News sent a certified letter to NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, describing the case and demanding an investigation.
Receipt of the letter was confirmed, but Kelly has not responded.
The majority of New Yorkers can't find themselves on a blank map of the USA. Real talk. In the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's the consensus of whites was that racism was no longer a factor in American life. Now, we have to hear all this post-racial crappola.
You tell me a place in the city where I can get footage of two white grandmothers being treated to this mistreatment at the hands of the authorities and i'll bring my camera. (Let's try to get a unicorn in the background.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S_Q4KumJNE
Elders Arrested By NYPD in Harlem Jan. 5, 2012
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