Sentences with phrase «for city cops»

The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, which represents about 24,000 cops, hired the consulting firm Tusk Strategies (run by Bradley Tusk, 2009 campaign manager for ex-NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg) to take on Mayor Bill de Blasio over raises and pensions for city cops in the future.

In 2009, David Paterson, the governor at the time, vetoed a pension sweetener for city cops and firefighters that had been typically carved into the state budget.

NYC Council members seized on the big raise de Blasio gave his new schools chancellor to push for raises for city cops.

Not exact matches

A cyclist who outed state Sen. Marty Golden for allegedly posing as a cop during a traffic dispute in Brooklyn is going the extra mile to scold scofflaws, developing a Twitter account that lets users enter license plate numbers to automatically check city records for past parking and camera violations.

Previewing his Albany agenda at NYPD headquarters, de Blasio said he hopes Albany passes legislation to make cops» disciplinary records more accessible to the public, and listed reforms to voter registration, public works development, and more money for city schools.

A lawyer for a paraplegic murderer is suing the NYPD for records of how the department treats disabled prisoners after the city went back on a $ 45,000 settlement of a suit claiming cops locked the killer in a cell without his wheelchair.

The last NYPD cops assigned full - time to New York City public schools are being moved out — despite nationwide calls for heightened security in the wake of last month's Florida shootings.

Retirement costs for city employees, including cops and firefighters, increased by $ 1.2 million from last year.

But «you can't have Syracuse city cops assigned to fight crime getting paid overtime to do background checks for free on people who have no affiliation with the city,» the DA maintained.

But while Mr. Bratton dominated city headlines last year — going against the mayor to call for more cops in the

The city's four biggest funds, including those for teachers, firefighters and cops, lagged their peers in a Post analysis of the 50 «most active» city and state public pension private equity investors.

The group sent the letter to Mayor De Blasio asking for an armed, precinct cop in each city school when class is in session and during after - school activities.

CITY HALL - City Council members praised some aspects of Mayor Bill de Blasio's budget, but they're still looking for more - including funding for 1,000 new cops.

City Council Minority Leader Vincent Ignizio, who has pushed hard for cops, also pointed out that this issue and others aren't settled by the executive budget.

The back - and - forth didn't go unnoticed by Councilman Vincent Ignizio, the minority leader and one of the loudest voices calling for the 1,000 new cops in the city budget.

He called the shooting death of the cops the «direct spinoff» of anti-police-brutality protests that the sympathetic mayor had allowed to take over city streets, blamed marijuana — which, thanks to the mayor, you can now carry a larger quantity of without getting locked up — for a spike in murders, has proudly declared stop - and - frisk isn't going away, and has repeatedly broken with the mayor on the subject of how many more cops the city needs (the mayor has said none, the police commissioner now says at least 1,000).

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told members of the City Council today he planned to ask for more than 1,000 additional police officers in the NYPD's headcount — just months after turning down the City Council's proposal to add 1,000 more cops.

In a victory for Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, the City Council is backing off reform measures that would have required cops to identify themselves to suspects they stop while also...

And City Council members are pushing legislation to criminalize chokeholds and to require that cops obtain consent for warrantless searches — proposals that could further complicate the mayor's efforts to reform the NYPD.

For the last several weeks of 2014, police across the country were denounced in the media and on the streets as racist brutes, and New York City's nearly 35,000 cops caught some of the worst of it.

NEW YORK CITY — A former New York City cop was sentenced to 46 months in prison for plotting to transport firearms and other contraband across state lines, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara announced Thursday.

Transportation activists and political opponents called for City Hall to yank state Sen. Marty Golden's parking placard after a cyclist reported Golden waved his placard and claimed to be a cop in an effort to clear the bike lane, but de Blasio has remained silent.

NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill will remain the top cop for at least four more years, he and the mayor announced in a press conference at City Hall today.

Mr. de Blasio and his Police Commissioner Bill Bratton ripped into the tabloid today for telling «flat - out lies,» targeting a spate of recent stories which claimed bad blood between Mr. Bratton and a top department official led to the official's abrupt departure and that Mr. de Blasio's wife, a key member of his administration, never wanted Mr. Bratton as the city's top cop.

Outside City Hall Tuesday, city and state elected officials called for justice for Eric Garner — and more cameras recording cops on city streCity Hall Tuesday, city and state elected officials called for justice for Eric Garner — and more cameras recording cops on city strecity and state elected officials called for justice for Eric Garner — and more cameras recording cops on city strecity streets.

Brooklyn Sen. Martin Golden, a former city cop, plans to introduce legislation stiffening penalties against people who plant so - called community guns — weapons hidden in key locations for use by groups of gang members and other criminals.

A Bronx man is suing the city for $ 2 million, after cops shot dead his pit - bull puppy during a drugs raid in 2007.

The City Council on Monday will introduce a set of bills calling for civil summonses for nonviolent quality - of - life offenses, such as public urination and drinking, but cops would still decide...

«Approval ratings for Bratton and the cops on the street are higher than they are for Mayor Bill de Blasio and any of our elected city - wide leaders,» noted Carroll.

City cops are furious that Police Commissioner Bill Bratton stumped for Hillary Clinton after refusing to let Donald Trump sit in on a roll call — and suspect the move...

The City Council on Monday will introduce a set of bills calling for civil summonses for nonviolent quality - of - life offenses, such as public urination and drinking, but cops would still decide whether to make an arrest.

Former top cop Bill Bratton said yesterday that he expects Mayor Giuliani will be in his corner if he makes a run for City Hall — a claim that had...

Testifying before the council's Public Safety Committee, Bratton touted the «exceptional work» of city cops, and said his program of «re-engineering» the NYPD had generated more than 1,100 ideas that have been «approved for some type of action.»

City cops are furious that Police Commissioner Bill Bratton stumped for Hillary Clinton after refusing to let Donald Trump sit in on a roll call — and suspect the move has to do with Bratton's lucrative new gig with the Clinton - linked firm Teneo.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The budget passed Monday by the Common Council eliminates all city funding for the Land Bank and allocates $ 1.5 million to hire 15 new cops.

Republican leaders are going to make a full - court press to convince Ray Kelly to run for mayor at a meeting on Staten Island early next month — and the city's top cop will be there to hear them out.

He suggested that Town Supervisor Patrick Vecchio, a political enemy of Creighton's who once served as a New York City cop and driver for the late Mayor John Lindsay, might be interested.

Late in the just - ended state legislative session, Lynch had been working on a possible deal with City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito to create a statewide minimum disability standard for cops.

The city's top cop went on to say that visitors anywhere in the Times Square area should leave their cars at home and opt for public transportation.

The city's top cop would lose the mayor's race to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, as well as the two other Democratic candidates for mayor, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll out Thurscity's top cop would lose the mayor's race to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, as well as the two other Democratic candidates for mayor, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll out ThursCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn, as well as the two other Democratic candidates for mayor, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll out Thursday.

Bo Dietl, the businessman and former police detective who is running for mayor of New York City as an independent, began airing his first 30 - second television advertisement of the general election, in which he accuses de Blasio of «turning his back on dead cops.»

The teachers» union, for example, have agreed to a contract without a salary increase for the first year and a half, while superior officers have assented to keeping their pay flat for 11 months — «zeroes» in public employee parlance, unacceptable to Mr. Lynch, whose members are among the lowest paid big - city cops in the country.

Cops continued to arrest more black and Latino New Yorkers for marijuana possession last year because the most complaints about people smoking pot came from neighborhoods of color, a top NYPD official told the City Council Monday.

The 19 - member caucus — which includes many of the mayor's top allies — blasted the city's top cop for saying police reform protests «led» to the shooting deaths of Detectives Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos last year.

A cloud of suspicion has hovered over City Hall since April, when The Post reported that the FBI grilled about 20 cops over gifts and trips they allegedly received from de Blasio donors Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg in exchange for favors such as providing police escorts.

The mood does not seem to be getting less divisive: after weeks of protests in the city's streets against police officers — and two more set for this weekend in Washington and in New York — cops are now planning their own pro-police rally next week.

Mr. de Blasio left less wiggle room when it came to the request for more cops, which supporters, including Councilman Jimmy Vacca, have argued would save the city significant overtime money and would allow police to better handle the new administration's priorities, including increased traffic monitoring.

Outside City Hall Wednesday, Bratton said the overtime in the mayor's preliminary budget helps the department compensate for reduced headcount — but like every police chief, if offered more cops, he'd use them.

New York is one of the cities targeted in the order for policies like its refusal to turn over to the feds undocumented immigrants who are arrested for minor offenses, and for cops and other city employees not to ask about residents» immigration status.

CBS2 political reporter Marcia Kramer reported that high anxiety about the burgeoning city corruption scandal drove the City Council to suddenly cut off funds to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which has been involved in sensitivity training for cops and correction officcity corruption scandal drove the City Council to suddenly cut off funds to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which has been involved in sensitivity training for cops and correction officCity Council to suddenly cut off funds to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which has been involved in sensitivity training for cops and correction officers.