New York City’s largest cop union is suing Police Commissioner Edward Caban and Mayor Adams for implementing a new “zero tolerance” policy on NYPD officers using steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs, the Daily News has learned.
In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Friday, lawyers for the Police Benevolent Association alleged the previously undisclosed policy flies in the face of a legal agreement the union entered into with the city in 2011.
The 2011 contract prohibited officers from ingesting or possessing any anabolic steroid or other forms of human growth hormones without a medical prescription. However, the old standard didn’t require officers to run any such prescription by their NYPD district surgeon before starting to use it.
The new protocol — which was enacted on Dec. 26, 2023, and described in an internal memo reviewed by The News as a “zero tolerance drug policy” — beefs up the old rule by affirming that officers must “immediately notify their district surgeon” of any steroid prescription they receive and provide “all supporting medical documentation” to the surgeon backing up the need for the drug.
Honestly if I’m going to get into wrestling matches that decide whether I live or die, I’d probably take steroids.
I wonder what the reaction to this will be. *Whoo. I guess comments must be acab instead of nuanced.
Are you saying the general public should be juicing so we can survive police attacks?
Time to get anabolic steroids to the college campuses, stat.
Let’s just put it in the water supply. It will make doomsday scenarios more interesting
lmfao that’s what I heard
The general public don’t usually carry firearms. Police do. Losing a wrestling match comes with the potential threat of your own gun being taken and used against you. That means losing said wrestling match could mean death. This is why people who conceal carry are the most likely to stay the fuck away from trouble like this. Police don’t have that luxury.
They actually do have the luxury of standing back. Ask the officers at Uvalde. Ask the Supreme Court.
De-escalation could also help. But, no, let’s arm these undertrained, ignorant, and stupid…
So your saying cops shouldn’t carry guns?
No, and I can’t possibly imagine what in my message made you think that. I’m more than happy to live in a country where the only people carrying guns are cops.
That’s a weird statement. If the police were the only people carrying guns, why would the police need them?
It’s also the real situation in most of the world there bud. And in the UK, they don’t carry them.
I’m not sure why you’re saying that to me, or better yet what you think I mean? I’m questioning why in the commenters ideal situation only cops would have guns as opposed to nobody.
Because there’s always going to be the occasional criminal that has managed to obtain one too and even if not they may have bladed or blunt melee weapons and tazers and pepper spray are not 100% reliable against them. Also if you’re confronted by a group of thugs you want to be the only one with a gun.
So are cops just really weak people who are scared of everything?
What’s that got to do with anything I said?
Because you said cops wrestling people could lose their guns and get killed so if cops “have” to wrestle people they probably shouldn’t carry guns because then they can’t lose them while attacking people
Not carrying a gun comes with it’s own set of even greater issues.
what drugs do you recommend for pissing your pants and hiding?
EDIT: found it – need to send shipments of tamsulosin to Uvalde …
Do you agree that those who are tasked with upholding the law should be allowed to violate that same law with impunity?
I understand your comment but I don’t see how it could overcome the above question in regard to police officers.
There was plenty of nuanced replies to you that you ignored entirely, you knob
Being a cop isn’t even in the top 10 most dangerous jobs.
Cops are cowards cosplaying as heros.
The question is not the most dangerous job. The question is how does taking steroids change that. Steroids won’t help an electrician when 50 MV go through him.