Sentences with phrase «police union leaders»

CITY HALL — Mayor Bill de Blasio's meeting with police union leaders on Tuesday was «productive» but ended with «no resolve» after two and half hours, city and labor officials said.

Emery has previously been criticized by police union leaders who long bristled at the role played by the CCRB, which investigates and sometimes prosecutes cases of alleged police misconduct.

De Blasio has been criticized by police union leaders for using the word «alleged» when discussing the attack on a police officer by protestors in a recent confrontation as well as speaking about the concern he has for his son Dante, who is biracial, in dealing with law enforcement.

During a private meeting with NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton and four other police union leaders on Wednesday, Michael Palladino, president of the Detectives Endowment Association, suggested former president Bill Clinton get involved in the fight.

James O'Neill will meet with police union leaders for the first time since he took over the department.

The mayor defended his trip, saying police union leaders who have criticized him for skipping town are trying to politicize the death of a police officer.

Just as police union leaders and their backers view Mr. de Blasio's desire to address the grievances of minorities who feel unfairly targeted by police as a thinly - disguised pretext to undermine law enforcement, they blamed Mr. Dinkins for undercutting police in an environment plagued with far more crime and unrest.

On Monday, the mayor received praise for adding $ 7.3 million to buy thousands of bulletproof vests for police officers, a longtime demand of police union leaders, with whom the mayor has clashed in incendiary fashion in recent weeks.

Mullins is not the first police union leader to seek the intervention of a major politician in the rift with City Hall.

Police union leaders charged that Mayor Bill de Blasio's comments after the Garner decision, and his relationship with the protesters, created the environment that lead to Brinsley's actions.

The city's top police watchdog has apologized for saying that police union leaders calling for his ouster were «squealing like a stuck pig.»

The «pig» comment has exposed long - simmering dissatisfaction with Emery, a prominent civil rights attorney, from police union leaders as well as police reform activists.

Mayor Bill de Blasio took a conciliatory tone toward police officers Thursday in his ongoing efforts to mend fences with the NYPD, putting the vitriolic feud with several police union leaders behind him.

During a closed - door meeting with Mayor Bill de Blasio last week, the city's police union leaders asked the mayor to denounce what they perceived as anti-police actions by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, according to Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association.

Likewise, community activists and police union leaders agree the Buffalo Police Department needs to provide officers more training.

One police union leader who has been outwardly critical of Mayor Bill de Blasio says he will ask Governor Andrew Cuomo to intervene and help resolve the dispute.

The mayor also dismissed the idea that Thursday's conviction will deter officers, as suggested by police union leaders.

Cuomo huddled privately with police union leaders — a sit - down that came as he also considers the fate of a police discipline bill he is yet to sign.

On NBC's «Meet the Press,» Bratton said he was hoping to sit down with police union leaders this week, but conceded that tensions between cops and de Blasio weren't likely to ease soon.

Police union leaders, who have been outspoken in their defense of the officers involved, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

But they are strongly opposed by Bratton, police union leaders and some newspaper editorial boards, on the grounds that they will help criminals hide drugs and guns when they are confronted by police.

In the wake of the killings of Ramos and Officer Wenjian Liu by Brinsley, who later committed suicide, in Bed - Stuy on Saturday, police union leaders said de Blasio has «blood on his hands.»

Police union leaders had led officers in turning their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio when he visited the injured officers at a hospital in Brooklyn.

«Pig» has long been a derisive term for police officers — and police union leaders have seized on the remark, made in an interview with the Daily News, as evidence that the chairman is biased against officers.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Mayor Bill de Blasio delivered the latest volley Tuesday in his ongoing battle with the city's police union leaders.

If a police union leader, like the bombastic Patrick Lynch, lashes out at Mr. de Blasio, what is the obvious reaction?

Police union leaders have publicly disagreed with Mayor Bill de Blasio since the mayor called for an end to «the stop - and - frisk era» during his campaign last year, and the union has escalated its rhetoric amid protests following the Garner decision.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said this afternoon he would not apologize to police union leaders and rank and file cops, despite calls from some top officials for the Democratic mayor to be contrite in the wake of a glaring rift between the NYPD and City Hall.

And even before that rift, some police union leaders questioned de Blasio's plan to bring the DNC to Brooklyn.

Mayor de Blasio's aides urged political allies to attack the police unions for their tactics just days before the mayor met with five police union leaders to hammer out a truce, sources revealed Tuesday.

Police union leaders — who have been at odds with City Hall for weeks — cautiously praised the mayor.

In his first appearance in a Quinnipiac poll, and the first time in memory the university has polled on a police union leader, he registered a dismal 18 percent favorability rating, with 39 percent of New Yorkers viewing him in an unfavorable light.