WTF?? Memo Shows NYPD Cops Ordered Not To “Congregate” Or Converse On City Streets!

The NYPD released a memo ordering cops not to “congregate” or take part in “unnecessary conversation” with each other — just weeks after Mayor Eric Adams chastised officers on the street for chatting on the job, The Post has learned

The order dated Tuesday marks a revision to the patrol guide for officers and supervisors — instructing them to ensure cops aren’t gathering together.

“Do not congregate, or engage in unnecessary conversation, with other members of the service while on post, absent police necessity,” the order states, addressing police officers.

In another section, specifically to patrol supervisors, the order states that bosses should “Ensure members of the service do not congregate, or engage in unnecessary conversation, with other members of the service while on post, absent police necessity.”

The order comes in the wake of a video that shows Adams at a Summer Streets bike ride in Manhattan on August 6. In the footage posted on social media, the mayor points to officers on a corner and tells their supervisors that “they should not all be congregating together.”

“How about scattering out, so we ensure safety and deploy personnel?” Adams could be heard saying. “We have not been deploying our personnel correctly.”

Reaction to the order was swift from the country’s largest police union — which quipped there wouldn’t be enough officers to congregate soon anyway because so many are quitting.

“The order is unnecessary,” Police Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch said. “Pretty soon there won’t be enough cops left to congregate anywhere in the city, because these miserable working conditions and the low pay are forcing them to quit in droves.”

Susan Edelman & Tina Moore

https://nypost.com/2022/08/24/nypd-cops-ordered-not-to-congregate-on-city-streets-memo/