Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York
| Founded | 1892 |
|---|---|
| Affiliation | Patrolmen's Benevolent Association |
| Country | United States |
| Website | nycpba |
The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York is the largest labor union representing police officers of the New York City Police Department. It represents about 24,000 of the department's 36,000 officers. The union has been unable to reach a labor contract with the city since 2012.
Several representatives of the association sit on the board of the New York City Police Pension Fund.
As a benevolent or fraternal organization, the New York City's Patrolmen's Benevolent Association was founded in 1892. In 1901 it pushed for and got an 8-hour workday. In 1967 New York state passed the Taylor Law, which sets the rules for municipal union organization with regard to representation and bargaining. New York City set up the Office of Collective Bargaining for municipal union demands.
The PBA was successful in its campaign to defeat Mayor John Lindsay's proposed Civilian Complaint Review Board in 1967.
Enraged by the Knapp Commission's report on police corruption, police officers in the most impacted divisions and precincts began to stage unsanctioned industrial actions. These culminated in the illegal five-day police strike of 1971.
In 1973, the city allowed women to work street patrols. The association was opposed to the change claiming women lacked the strength to back up male officers.
In January 1978, Mayor Koch prohibited city agencies from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Samuel DeMilia, then the president of the association, explained in an article in the New York Times that the order was “unworkable in the police department and can do more harm than good.”
In September 1992, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association organized a rally of thousands of police officers who blocked the Brooklyn Bridge to protest police oversight proposed by Mayor David Dinkins. Other uniformed officers jumped over police barricades to rush City Hall. Some were openly drinking, damaging cars and physically attacking journalists from the New York Times on the scene. On-duty officers did little to control the riot.
Many officers perished at the Twin Towers during the September 11, 2001 attacks in Lower Manhattan. Scores more were exposed to toxins—produced by the collapse of the Twin Towers—in the course of their work-shifts during the Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11, 2001 attacks at Ground Zero. Surviving first responders and their advocates are asserting that their illnesses resulted from exposure to toxins at Ground Zero.
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