These days? Please be specific, when was the NYPD not like this? Unless you're counting when the mob controlled the NYPD as separate from people with clout. He

These days? Please be specific, when was the NYPD not like this? Unless you're counting when the mob controlled the NYPD as separate from people with clout. Here's a poster from 1887: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Citizen_asking_Mayor_Abram_Hewitt_for_protection_from_the_police.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Citizen_asking_Mayor...