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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.

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.

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A key labor union for the New York Police Department on Wednesday threw its support to Republican state Senate hopeful Chris McGrath in the race to replace disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

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.

Such a case occurred on Long Island in 2008, when leaders of the Suffolk County Conservative Party sniffed out that members of the local police union were switching their party enrollments in an attempt to bring about the defeat of a county sheriff who was seen as cooperating in an effort to downsize the department.

Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction epolice», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction epolice, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction epolice friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction epolice disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction epolice slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction epolice officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ePolice Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction epolice friction ending.

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.

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.

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.»

While appealing to president Muhammadu Buhari to wade into the alleged barbaric acts of the military on the hapless students and lecturers, the union leader called for caution in using the military in a civil or students protest, stressing that the police which is constitutionally empowered should be used in civil matters to prevent loss of lives of the innocent future leaders.

«Unfortunately, some participants in today's demonstration intentionally escalated an already - tense situation, placing their fellow demonstrators and the police officers on the scene at greater risk,» the union leader said.

«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.

ONE POLICE PLAZA — When detectives Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were executed in December as they sat in their squad car on a Brooklyn street, Mayor Bill de Blasio was told by union leaders he had «blood» on his hands.

The leaders of the city's law enforcement unions met with Mayor Bill de Blasio and police commissioner Bill Bratton on Tuesday for nearly two and a half hours at the police training academy in College Point, Queens, but none of the officials provided much detail about the meeting.

Union leaders have accused de Blasio of not being sufficiently supportive of police, and have said the drop - off in enforcement activity was due to low morale, a large number of protests throughout the city, and increased safety precautions following the killing of two officers in Brooklyn on December 20.

Meanwhile a video released last month by the American Civil Liberties Union showing a Kenton County, Ky., school police officer handcuffing an eight - year - old kid in special ed once again cast light on how American public education has escalated overuse of harsh discipline by using law enforcement to deal with behavioral issues that should be handled by teachers and school leaders.