All told, at least seven New Yorkers have been charged with making
threats against police officers since the Dec. 20 killing of Ramos and Liu.
The Pioneer Press (via ABA Journal) has the story of a Minnesota man who was sentenced to probation this week after pleading guilty to making a terroristic
threat against a police officer — a threat that took the unusual form of a tattoo of a pig.
Not exact matches
To improve the city's safety and protect
against terror
threats, all the candidates called for either an influx of new
police officers to bolster the force or at the very least an end to the cuts that have slashed the number of
officers patrolling the city over the past 12 years.
My tires have been punctured by nails, blow torches, and wooden stakes (7 destroyed tires and counting); there have been multiple death
threats, I have been beaten, robbed, defamed, sued, obstructed and even arrested and convicted on false charges brought by corrupt
police officers (currently the subject of an appeal and a federal lawsuit
against the three
police officers involved).
The article points to the most notorious recent evidence of this
threat: the text messages about employee firings and extramarital sex that brought down Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and provided the smoking gun that allowed three fired
police officers to win $ 8 million in their wrongful termination suit
against the city.