NYPD Officers Face Discipline for Posing with a Stripper

Source – Four female officers from the 33rd Precinct in Washington Heights — including at least two from its neighborhood policing program — face possible discipline for posing with two nearly nude, G-string-clad male strippers at a senior center Mother’s Day event.

In the photo, all four cops flash wide smiles as they lean into the stripper’s buff bod — with one gleefully pointing to his G-string — as a second stripper, wearing a sailor hat, dances in the background. …

The photo was taken May 13 at the annual Mother’s Day celebration at the ARC Senior Center on Broadway …

Neighborhood policing is one of the cornerstones of the NYPD’s current crime-fighting philosophy, with NCOs spending chunks of their time building bridges with residents, merchants, community groups, all with an eye on learning about crime and conditions.

Police Commissioner James O’Neill has made the program the signature initiative of his tenure.

Just slow your roll there, NYPD. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t make “neighborhood policing” a cornerstone of your current crime-fighting philosophy and then come after the officers who do what the people they’re building those bridges to are doing. When in Rome, and all that. If you’re going to the Mother’s Day party at the ARC, you’re going in their expecting two things: Old ladies and perfectly cut strippers with preposterously huge wangs in their G-strings. It comes with the territory. And a key part of relating to these old bags is enjoying the show they way they do. Hopefully with fewer heart attacks, but enjoying it nevertheless.

Besides, you can’t expect women to make in roads in the department only to cut off the time honored tradition of cops befriending strippers. That’s a relationship as old as policing itself. I defy you to find me one crime drama where the cop doesn’t walk into a tittay bar, flash his badge and ask a few questions. You can’t solve a crime without talking to the ladies who work the pole or, at the very least, the men they work with. So don’t go telling these newest members of New York’s Finest they’re going to have to function without having a good working relationship with those lady strippers male counterparts. If you’re going to enforce that, you might as well just let every criminal go free.

So you just go right on doing what you’re doing, sisters. Every time you pose with a guy wearing a tube sock on his junk and point to that kid’s-arm-holding-an-apple he’s got in there, you’re bringing the community together. And serving the cause of gender equality. That is some fine police work.