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It's an elementary rule of politics.

Any elected mayor has to have the police on their side.

But from the day Bill DeBlazio took his seat at City Hall in New York,

his relationship with the police went from bad to worse to catastrophic.

First, DeBlazio cut way back on the practice of stop and frisk, the

cop's favorite tool for shaking down people on the street. Then, a white officer killed

an unarmed black man on a Staten Island sidewalk.

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