They grinned benignly and waggled their fingers in V signs. They huddled on chilly streets outside precinct houses and chanted defiant slogans. They violated state law, ignored a court injunction, rejected the appeals of their union leaders and assailed the mayor. They were New York City cops, taking part last week in the nation's biggest police walkout since the Boston strike of 1919.
The specter of a police force on strike in the nation's largest city, with its serious crime problem, was both frightening and bizarre. But New York is inured to such crises. The policemen, who walked out in...
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