I’ve been meaning to post about this since Jdog first twitted about it, but there was a hole in my racket, the sun was in my eyes, the dog ate my homework.  Okay, I just didn’t get around to it.  But it’s too important to ignore, so I’m back to it now.

From the Northern Muckraker via Boing Boing, somebody let slip an internal police memo from the New York Police Department.  For those who may not know, New York City has a police force with more officers than most cities have residents.  They have a cute nickname, New York’s Finest.  They considered calling themselves New York’s Brightest, but were unable to find anyone amongst that very large group of officers who would go along. 

Just to be clear, there are many police officers who are well educated, smart and dedicated, in the service of the City of New York.  There are a whole lot more, however, who make rocks look brilliant.  The standards have slipped a bit over the years, much to the consternation of the more intelligent officers, who are now forced to do send out things like this :



We await next month’s Memo, Investigation of Individuals Engaged in Suspicious Winking.  I know, it makes me proud to be a New Yorker too.