It must seem to our men and women in blue that every pol in America is now determined to see one of them sent to the big house.
Here in New York, the week began with City Council members holding a "die-in" and then blocking traffic to protest a grand jury's decision not to indict a cop for the death of Eric Garner. Now the council has asked for an investigation of how allegations of police abuse are handled.
In Albany, Senate Democrats announced a bill for a new office to review cases of killings by cops. The day before, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman demanded prosecutorial power over such cases.
The Assembly has long sought special investigators for cops. Not to be left out, Gov. Cuomo is reviewing his options.
Meanwhile, US Attorney General Eric Holder, who's probing the Garner case, may impose his own "reforms" on the NYPD — as he's done in 15 other cities.
All this would add to the existing oversight — by the NYPD's new inspector general, by the monitor ordered last year by a federal judge, by a newly energized Civilian Complaint Review Board, by five district attorneys and by an army of private lawyers eager to sue.
From all this you'd think the NYPD is the most abusive, deadly force on the planet.
The opposite is true: A 2013 study shows New York has fewer shootings (and fatalities) per capita by cops than Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Baltimore, Washington or Philly. Another report, out this week, shows that 2013 saw the fewest police shootings in recent memory — 81. Back in 1995, there were 345.
Yet the pols pile on, pushing measures designed to create more ways a cop might end up in jail. Then again, given how many New York pols leave office in handcuffs, maybe they're just looking for company.
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