Dear Bill,

How’s it going?
Not great, right?
Everyone in New York currently seems to hate you. The cops hate you, most of the media hates you, the driver who picked me up at JFK airport last night hates you (‘so weak!), the hotel waiter who brought me my breakfast this morning hates you (‘doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing!), even the bloke cleaning the street on Madison at 6am hates you (‘he should just resign!)

Your political opponents, obviously, hate you. But so do a worrying number of your own side.
Now, I’m used to hearing moans from New Yorkers about the city’s mayors.
I remember Mike Bloomberg clearing a massive snow blizzard as 2011 arrived in such speed that it was like it had never happened within 36 hours.
In England, where a single snowflake has been known to paralyze the entire rail network for a month, Bloomberg would have been knighted for services to efficient weather management.

In New York, he was furiously lambasted by media and public alike - for taking so long.
But this level of moaning about you is on a whole different league, even by New Yorker standards.
The NYPD is in open revolt; many refusing to do even basic police work on the streets, others gleefully disrespecting you at public events, even funerals, by turning their backs when you speak.

And you know why? Because you were RIGHT.

And sometimes, being right is the hardest thing in politics.
It’s not popular or palatable to criticise the police in New York, most of whom do a great job in often very difficult circumstances, as we saw yet again with the shooting of two policemen in the Bronx last night.

But sometimes, it’s the right thing to do.
And this is one of those times.
This whole debacle didn’t begin with the disgusting, cold-blooded execution of two NYPD officers, much as disingenuous police union chiefs like Patrick Lynch – whose obvious motivation is a new pay deal for his membership - would have everyone believe as he whips everyone into a frenzy of indignation.

No, let’s be very clear here: it began when Eric Garner was outrageously choked to death by a swarming group of NYPD officers on the streets of Staten Island.
Eleven times we saw Garner cry out ‘I can’t breathe!’ in a chilling cell phone video of the incident. Yet none of the officers involved was indicted by a grand jury to stand trial for their actions.
This was a grotesque abuse of police power, and an equally grotesque abuse of a justice system that time and again fails black Americans.

The protests, rallies and incendiary speeches that followed were all a direct result of what those NYPD officers did to an unarmed black man guilty of nothing more than non-aggressively asking why he was being bothered.
You could have reacted as most New York mayors would have reacted, and launched a firm defence of the NYPD and the legal system.

But you didn’t.
Instead, you refused to publicly support the Grand Jury decision and then you made the comments which led to everyone hating you:
‘We have to have an honest conversation in this country about the history of racism and the problem that has caused parents to feel their children may be in danger in their dynamics with police, when in fact the police are there to protect them.’

You explained you have regularly lectured your own son, who is black, about how to deal with the police

‘We said, “Look, if a police officer stops you, do whatever he tells you to do. Do not move suddenly, do not reach for your cellphone”, because sadly there is a greater chance it might be misinterpreted if it was a young man of colour.’
You were instantly accused of ‘chucking the NYPD under the bus’ and have been vilified ever since.
But that doesn’t mean you were wrong to say it.

Let me take you back to August, 2013 when I interviewed you for CNN.
You were so excited about the prospect of becoming New York’s Mayor.
And so clear about what your main priority would be:
‘Stop and frisk. We’ve had two systems of policing in this city in recent years,’ you told me. ‘they’re separate and unequal. Different neighbourhoods treated very, very differently and that’s created a rift between the police and the community, making it harder to protect public safety in the long run and obviously been found unconstitutional by a federal judge.’

You cited alarming statistics. In 2011, there were more stops of young African-American men in New York than the number of young African-American men actually living in New York – 168,000 stops versus 158,000 young black men.
Of all people subjected to stop-and-frisk, 90% were not arrested.

‘A city can’t subject innocent people to that treatment over and over and not pay a price,’ you said. ‘We cannot continue to allow hundreds of thousands of young men to be stopped in the street for no other reason than the color of their skin.’
Soon after making these comments, you were elected Mayor.
I vividly remember another part of our interview, where I played you a video of your daughter Chiara talking about you, and saying she was so happy that you weren’t ‘some boring white guy who didn’t know what he was talking about.’ She added: ‘Dad cares about everyone in this city, rich, poor, black, white, blue whatever, and that’s what we need.’

She was right. You are what New York needs. It’s one of the most multi-cultural cities on earth, and with your black wife and two black children, you are perfectly placed to understand and articulate the particular issues such a multi-cultural society creates.

So don’t apologise for spelling out the reality of the Eric Garner case.

It was an incident that shamed the NYPD, shamed New York, and shamed America.

It was also another clear message to New York’s black community that you have to be very careful when interacting with certain rogue members of the NYPD. To pretend otherwise is to ignore what we all saw on that hideous video.
A disturbing New York Daily News investigation last month revealed that at least 179 people have been killed by the NYPD in the last 15 years.

Where race was known, 86% were either black or Hispanic.
27% of those killed were unarmed.
The stats don’t lie.

The abuse that you’re now facing is a small price to pay for being right, Mr Mayor.
Don’t be a boring white guy. That’s not why you were elected.

Kind regards

Piers Morgan

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Piers Morgan: ever the white guy FULL OF CRAP!!! Now he returns to America and notices how misery loves company. Don't be a boring white guy Bill de B, don't be like most Americans who value law and order. Be a commie anarchist white guy! That's where it's at Bill 'Three Names' deBlaseo. I sure hope 'de B' takes this timely advice from Piers Morgan, another failed Commie white guy. And take that other commie Bill Bratton down with you!!! What a rump licker that guy turned out to be. TM stands with the cops!