Faisal Shahzad Versus The UFT

So using the mayor’s logic that the bomber was “[h]omegrown maybe a mentally deranged person or someone with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something” perhaps attention now can be turned toward the PBA as the real culprit:

One area that will be spared, however, is public safety. Mr. Bloomberg has decided that the police force, which dropped to 35,641 last year from 40,285 in 2000, cannot absorb any more cuts, especially in the wake of the Times Square bomb scare.

So he will scrap his original plans, as sketched out in his preliminary budget address in January, to reduce the police force by 892 officers through attrition, city officials said.