The low rate of vaccination compliance by New York’s finest has lame duck Mayor Bill de Blasio threatening to withhold pay checks from the police and other city workers.Under the mayor’s mandate, all city workers must be vaccinated or be tested weekly for the disease.
That order goes into effect on Monday,with an estimated 340,000 city workers under its guidelines.“If someone, again, does not follow that mandate, that’s true, eventually, they’re not going to be paid, obviously,” de Blasio said in a press conference on Thursday.The mayor has long had a contentious relationship with NY police, who feel his backing of no bail and lax incarceration of repeat offenders make their job more difficult.As of this week, 53% of NYPD employees have
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