back in if you go back into the 1970s, we had we ve had officers killed in assassinations for decades. we had even back to 1988 when we had eddie burn who was killed in his patrol car. you know, the sad thing about this that people are trying to wrap their heads around these officers were not engaged in any type of confrontation, not engaged in any type of enforcement. this was just an unprovoked attack. they were sitting in their car having a roast beef sandwich and something out of left field and it s something they couldn t have possibly defended themselves against. it s just the senselessness it s always senseless but this level is just beyond any that i think anyone has had in recent memory. let me turn to lee who is coming to us from houston this morning. lee, as the commissioner about 20 years ago in the early 1990s, i m interested in comparing the crime levels now versus then. because the city has seen record low levels of crime and these funerals are going on with
baseless and pointless and unfactual, by him doing that it caused to empower and embolden a coward to get on a bus, drive up to brooklyn, broad daylight, kill two guys having a roast beef sandwich in a radio car. that s why. and making a racial case out of the eric garner death. there isn t a shred of evidence. yes, but the mayor made it a racial thing. how did the police respond mr. kerik? you you saw this week it was reported in the bedford stuyvesant part of brooklyn where these took place police officers have arrested i think one person in the last week. clearly cops have decided we re not going to enforce the law, at least in the way we did before these killings. is that legitimate? no, i honestly don t think that s legitimate. and here s why. you know how many cops are in that precinct right now? have been in that precinct over the last week, week and a half two weeks? since the assassination of these cops? that that area, that precinct has
baseless and pointless and unfactual, by him doing that it caused to empower and embolden a coward to get on a bus, drive up to brooklyn, broad daylight, kill two guys having a roast beef sandwich in a radio car. that s why. and making a racial case out of the eric garner death. there isn t a shred of evidence. yes, but the mayor made it a racial thing. how did the police respond mr. kerik? you you saw this week it was reported in the bedford stuyvesant part of brooklyn where these took place police officers have arrested i think one person in the last week. clearly cops have decided we re not going to enforce the law, at least in the way we did before these killings. is that legitimate? no, i honestly don t think that s legitimate. and here s why. you know how many cops are in that precinct right now? have been in that precinct over the last week, week and a half two weeks? since the assassination of these cops? that that area, that precinct has
rhetoric with fuel that was baseless and pointless and unfactual, by him doing that it caused to empower and embolden a coward to get on a bus, drive up to brooklyn, broad daylight, kill two guys having a roast beef sandwich in a radio car. that s why. and making a racial case out of the eric garner death. there isn t a shred of evidence. yes, but the mayor made it a racial thing. how did the police respond mr. kerik? you you saw this week it was reported in the bedford stuyvesant part of brooklyn where these took place police officers have arrested i think one person in the last week. clearly cops have decided we re not going to enforce the law, at least in the way we did before these killings. is that legitimate? no, i honestly don t think that s legitimate. and here s why. you know how many cops are in that precinct right now? have been in that precinct over the last week, week and a half two weeks? since the assassination of these cops? that
not hundreds, thousands. right. well, can you talk to us a little bit about what the officers were saying why did they want to do that? what were they saying about officer ramos? because they were there to remember him. everyone s upset with the mayor but this was really ability remembering a great man who lost his life too soon. the moon as all police funerals i ve been to many many, many of them was extremely somber. more somber this time than any i think before. i think that has to do with the horrific circumstances of the double assassination. i think it struck to the core. put an ice pick in the heart of the nypd as an institution. it alerted them. it horrified them to the extent of the savagery that occurred. this wasn t a gunfight on a rooftop with a bank robber. this was two guys having a roast beef sandwich in broad daylight in a marked radio car on a quiet saturday afternoon. horrific. and i think it absolutely stilled the heart of the nypd. now, mark, there s been a lo