NYPD makes its own safety a top priority

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In the wake of two targeted police killings in New York City this past week, police officials have urged officers to prioritize safety. While the NYPD Commissioner, William J. Bratton, spoke of officers both keeping citizens and themselves safe, the president of the police lieutenant's union, Lou Turco, took a more police-centric perspective. "Your main job is to ensure the safety of yourselves and your officers," he said.

Another union statement said the NYPD's emphasis on officer safety should even take precedence over making arrests.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.