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.»
He's often credited with having kicked off the historic reversal of New York's decades - long rise in crime — embracing the «broken windows» theory of policing, introducing the crime - monitoring tool CompStat and overseeing a big boost in the number
of city cops.
Not exact matches
But the
city's firefighters and
cops say they have concerns about their future workplace that have not been addressed because they've been left out
of the conversation.
Cop sought refuge in the Swiss
city of Basle where Calvin joined him in early 1535.
Camie Ayash was raised in Brooklyn, the daughter
of an agnostic nurse and a New York
City cop with a skeptic's approach to religion.
The Democratic convention had been held in sweltering Chicago the last week
of August, and the mayor had turned his
cops loose on all the hippies and Yippies who were occupying the
city.
The NYPD moved to tamp down speculation
of a coverup after the
city's top
cop overturned a guilty verdict against a
cop accused
of using a banned chokehold, releasing a video
of the incident in question.
NYPD detectives have been warned to stay away from a private investigator who's allegedly part
of a burgeoning «cottage industry» in which gang members score cash settlements from the
city by filing bogus civil - rights suits against
cops.
A Brooklyn NYPD boss doled out comp time to his
cops so they would turn a dingy station house garage into a private cigar lounge — where officers puff away in violation
of city and state law.
1) While this is a NYC union, it's a safe bet that at least some
of its 11,000 members are Long Island residents (The NYPD requires all
of its
cops to live in the
city or designated «resident counties», which include Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, Nassau and Suffolk);
The
city needs more
cops on the street AT NIGHT, when all
of the crime is taking place.
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.
An obsessed stalker was busted after Kansas
cops told the NYPD he was on his way to the
city to take home the love
of his life — former Miss New York and Fox News panelist Joanne Nosuchinsky.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is deploying «hundreds»
of additional state police, National Guard troops and MTA and Port Authority
cops to patrol the
city's transits hubs and crossings during the holiday season amid heightened concerns about terrorism.
The Fix NYC panel is also recommending that
cops better enforce rules already on the books — such as those banning drivers from blocking intersections in bus - only lanes — and suggesting
City Hall roll back the number of city - issued parking placards that allow drivers to defy parking regulations with impun
City Hall roll back the number
of city - issued parking placards that allow drivers to defy parking regulations with impun
city - issued parking placards that allow drivers to defy parking regulations with impunity.
«I went to school with every race, creed and religion, every type
of kid,» said Pichardo, who remarked that policing the
city was a shared responsibility between citizens and
cops.
New York's existing «sanctuary
city» statutes forbids the NYPD and Department
of Corrections from turning undocumented individuals in its custody over to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement unless those persons have been found guilty
of one
of 170 violent felonies — including murder, rape, terrorism, assaulting a
cop and physically or sexually abusing a child.
The NCOs have also been attending events in their individual sectors to get the word out and show their faces, and
cops who showed up unexpectedly at a meeting
of the Battery Part
City School PTA on April 13 earned accolades from parents enthused by the idea
of the old - fashioned beat
cops, according to one member.
Almost a week after
City Hall denied ordering
cops to remove homeless people ahead
of the mayor's subway trip, O'Neill conceded Friday that the NYPD had indeed done «inspections»
of the stations involved.
The «
cops on call» even shut down a lane
of the Lincoln Tunnel and escorted a friend
of the businessmen into the
city, he charged.
Chants
of «No
cops on campus» erupted on the campus
of City College
of New York (CCNY) this past Mon., Oct. 21st.
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.
He served as the
city's top
cop from 1994 to 1996, ran Boston's Police Department before that and later served as LA's chief
of police.
STATEN ISLAND - A group
of Staten Island politicians are urging Mayor Bill de Blasio to assign an armed, uniformed NYPD
cop in every
city public school.
The hapless
cops, it seems, were unaware that they were harassing an elected official, not just a nobody, and that their reckless abuse
of authority was going to make the pages
of the
city's dailies.
Are you as outraged about Peter Liang the NY
City cop convicted
of killing Akai Gurley?
Mayor Stephanie Miner weighed in on police staffing levels, after weeks
of comments from police officials and the union president about needing more
cops, saying while everyone wants more personnel, the cash - strapped
city simply can't afford as many police as the chiefs would like.
Extra firepower has been deployed around the
city to protect NYPD officers in the wake
of the
cop killings in Dallas and Baton Rouge, officials confirmed Tuesday.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton wants presidential candidates to talk more about race issues, terrorism and cyber-security «instead
of sabotaging each other,» the
city's top
cop said on morning radio Sunday...
Cops aren't perfect when it comes to how they deal with minorities, but
city officers have saved thousands
of lives in their communities in recent decades and are committed to...
Good news: Top
cop Bill Bratton appears to be keeping his vow to crack down on quality -
of - life violations across the
city.
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.
The
city's top
cop went on the warpath Monday after a 23 - year - old woman got out
of her handcuffs and escaped from police custody over the weekend — the fourth suspect...
In the summer
of 1965 at a
City Council hearing, 5,000
cops showed up to protest at
City Hall,» he added.
Ex-NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly brought the
city's murder rate to a record low last year — but he's also handing new top
cop Bill Bratton a list
of nearly 9,000...
The
city's top cop insisted Sunday that he's still holding out hope of hiring more officers this year, even after his big blow - up with a key City Hall aide ove
city's top
cop insisted Sunday that he's still holding out hope
of hiring more officers this year, even after his big blow - up with a key
City Hall aide ove
City Hall aide over...
Mayor de Blasio on Tuesday said the
city's top cop was right to urge New Yorkers not to give money to the homeless — while the head of the Cit
city's top
cop was right to urge New Yorkers not to give money to the homeless — while the head
of the
CityCity...
The
city is suffering from an «epidemic»
of people recording
cops making arrests, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said Wednesday — as his department investigates shocking video
of a Harlem officer...
The style is gritty, with the kind
of black humor typical to
cops — and to residents
of corrupt machine
cities.
Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio has «cleared the air» with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly after Playboy published an interview in which the
city's top
cop agreed with the suggestion that the Democratic mayoral contenders were «full
of shit.»
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).
«This is about the person who could best take us to the next level,» the mayor said, pointing to O'Neill's 33 years
of experience as a
cop in New York
City, and his role in implementing the mayor's strategies to improve police - community relations.
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.
The preliminary budget also didn't set aside any
of the $ 100 million sought by the
City Council to hire roughly 1,000 extra
cops.
He said ideally all
cops would live in the
city but recognized the political challenges
of making that happen.
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.
According to one
city cop, Cruz got by on very little income, making the rounds
of local soup kitchens and spending time hanging around with fellow members
of the
city's homeless population.
The NYPD's data - driven approach to tracking homelessness — which
cops call «Bum - Stat» — is part
of an «extraordinary coordination» among
city agencies, de Blasio said.