And I say that if these "kids" wanna be committing these acts then they should be put in jail with some real thugs and see how they can handle it. Nowadays all kids wanna be "thugs" and they come from so-called good homes. These kids aren't thugs. They're wanna-be's!! Put them up north with the bloods, crips, latin kings and whatever other gang is out there so they can be taught the real meaning of gangsta.

I totally agree with the facts. He was in the process of committing a heroic act when he was struck so it does make him a hero. It's unfortunate that he had to get hit. He was a nice, family-oriented cop. It's sad that bad things happen to good people. They should put Ph and yytttt in the middle of the road and let them get hit by a motorcycle and see how they like....Yeah I said it. You scumbags. I bet you wouldn't be saying all that if you had known him.

yeah ^^ theyy weree albaniaaan ; i know theeem buuut thy would never do anything like this so hopefully they're let out soon .

"Mario Koruni, Sefer Mujo and Tiku Qoko, all 18, were charged with felony assault and possession of stolen property."

Albanians or (maybe) Bosnians? There's been some talk recently about groups of Albanian youths vandalizing and stealing in south Brooklyn.

dnt judge a book buy its cover budyy

he got what was coming to him...

should have worn a helmet.

This sucks. I hope the officer recovers.

+1

'very grave' and 'in the hands of God' aren't very hopeful.

i hope he gets better.

Notice that the usual gang of police-haters on Gothamist are deafeningly quiet about this hero's actions.

Why are we not suprised?

I'm sorry, what part about getting hit by a motorcycle makes you automatically a 'hero'.

We overuse that term completely.

I agree with you 100% that 'hero' is inappropriately overused most of the time nowadays.

Some Times Square street peddler sees a car running, tells a cop and now he's a hero? No way.

That's precisely why I used it here.

This guy did a heroic act: chasing three hoodlums (who may have been armed) on dark Bensonhurst streets in the middle of the night. Yes, the cop had a gun, but he was outnumbered 3-1. He didn't know if they had guns. That is pretty heroic in my book.

Would you have the courage to do that? I don't think I would, whether I get paid for it or not.

If you do have the courage, the NYPD could use a few, good men.

People (well, at least most of them it seems) don't hate the cops when they're doing the jobs they were hired to do instead of harassing people at protests, people on bicycles, or people with a bag on a seat of an empty subway car.

Cops have hard jobs, and I salute those that go into the job with the intention of helping people and stopping crimes. Unfortunately, I think a relatively small minority of cops behave poorly and give the majority a bad name. I also think there are some higher-ups who have their priorities wrong and force their subordinates to trump up statistics to justify the large police presence instead of promoting good police work.

This cop seems to have been doing good police work, and I feel bad that he was hurt doing so. But, I feel even today that this cop's honorable work and efforts are overshadowed by stories about cops driving drunk and Kerik continuing to act like a buffoon.

Anyone not wishing a speedy recovery by Olmedo is obviously a jerk, but is it any wonder there are so many police-haters out there, given the number of reports that seem to come out almost daily of apparent malfeasance?

Malfeasance makes the news. Good actions rarely do.

Shakespeare said, "The evil that men do live after them, the good is oft interred with their bones."

But that's not the point. I am not particularly fond of cops myself. They've hassled me more than once. But they have a rough job as a mitigating excuse.

What is the point is that when a cop is hurt or a hero, this blog gets few positive comments.

Then check out the dozens of comments when a cop slips up

Check out the measly 3 comments in a 24-hour period regarding the initial report of this tragic accident yesterday.

Then compare with the 10 comments (so far) within a half hour regarding the allegedly drunk cops today.

It is this disparate disproportion of "hate" comments vs. "praise" comments that says a lot more about some haters on this blog than it does about the NYPD.

If we're going to read minds through comments (or, even more magically, the lack thereof), then one could point out how you took the effort to post "why are we not surprised," but you didn't actually post an NYPD-positive comment yourself...

You can go to any website that allows comments and the negative stories will always have more. It means nothing.

What part of "hero's actions" is not positive?

I noticed you didn't say anything positive about his heroic efforts.

Any reason for that?

Yes.

My sincere hopes for a speedy recovery go out to the cop and the motorcyclist. Maybe this can be a catalyst for NYPD to get serious about the danger of the roving gang of motorcycles along Lenox Ave in Harlem. We have complained and called 311 and the gang has only grown larger and more brazen. Sometimes it takes an injury to a cop for a dangerous problem to be worth NYPD's attention.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't a "roving" gang of motorcycles, but 1 guy on a motorcycle, and he wasn't doing anything wrong. It was the car thieves who are criminally responsible for the injuries to the motorcyclist and the cop.