Sentences with phrase «police brass»

He said the working group would include a «diverse» number of police brass, who would consult with experts including advocacy groups and defense lawyers.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and top police brass offered details today on an NYPD retraining initiative that he has repeatedly heralded in the wake of the Eric Garner grand jury decision — but he stopped short of saying the new instruction would have prevented Garner's death.

Pressed recently by City Council members to explain the disparity, police brass said they were responding to where they were called..

The development is the latest black eye to the NYPD in the ongoing federal probe that has centered on police brass and two other Brooklyn businessman, Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, who provided gifts to NYPD brass in exchange for favors.

David Paterson's security chief to pressure a witness not to file an assault charge against a key aide; and a secret attempt to slip huge pay raises for police brass into the state's deficit - plagued budget.

Another source said the mayor's office notified police brass of his schedule ahead of time «with the expectation that the subway stations would be free and clear of homeless people.»

He climbed the hierarchy of police brass through the 90s, and became a mid-level administrator during the Bloomberg administration.

In 2010, Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano lifted the cap for a year to encourage some of the highest - paid police brass to retire.

Last week, CBS reported Mr. Bharara's office was looking into the mayor's campaign donations in connection with a probe into two businessmen accused of trading gifts for favors from police brass.

The grand larceny numbers, police brass here said, stem from an increase in fraud cases, especially the so - called Green Dot MoneyPak Scam.

Public Advocate Letitia James, a Democrat, went so far as to say police brass supported beefing up the department's ranks in private, though they've sided with the mayor in public.

The mayor's wife and son attended separate meetings at which police brass grill commanders about crime.

Police brass joined the «Mile High Club» with the woman after departing from New Jersey's Teterboro Airport en route to Las Vegas in 2014, sources said.

Iron - haired and square - jawed Mitchell Ryan, one among an army of unhinged authority figures in early - seventies cinema, doing a walk - on as police brass.

NEW YORK CITY — NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton dusted off the city's Conflict of Interest rule book during a summit with top police brass to read them the riot act about laws that govern accepting gifts and gratuities from the public and people doing business with the city, DNAinfo New York has learned.

During his first campaign for office in 2001, Suozzi said he would drive himself if elected, but quickly accepted a security detail on advice of police brass.

De Blasio and his fundraising tactics have recently become the focus of a wide - sweeping FBI probe that has entangled two businessmen with ties to the mayor and police brass.

While it has long been police lore that crime rises with warmer weather, the trend is even more disturbing because it is not confined to the two eye - catching categories — murder and shootings — that Mayor Bill de Blasio and police brass have blamed on localized gang activities.

And any information obtained by the feds in Bali was transmitted to the Los Angeles and New York FBI offices and to the FBI - NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force, which has roughly 120 NYPD detectives along with top police brass.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton kept the heat on his predecessor Wednesday — demanding that Ray Kelly «man up» and identify the source of his claims that police brass were manipulating...

Reichberg, a major donor to Mayor de Blasio's campaign, was busted along with the police brass in the scandal that stretched from One Police Plaza to City Hall.

So says Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who torpedoed talk that police brass were mulling replacing their uniforms.