Inspector James Grant, a former
precinct commander in Manhattan and Brooklyn, of taking bribes worth more than $ 100,000 from two Brooklyn investors over three years.
NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill could find himself in an awkward situation — forced to defend a
former precinct commander accused of corruption, The Post has learned.
NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill called the recent comments about rape by a Brooklyn
police precinct commander «insensitive,» and insisted «takes rape and sexual assault seriously,» investigating «every report thoroughly.
Today, Mr. de Blasio said the CompStat model would allow Ms. Horowitz to ensure the schools plan is moving forward by grilling educators on the strategies they are using the same way police leaders
grill precinct commanders.
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Give precinct commanders the ability to make their own choices, and those stops are going to come down only to those that are constitutional and valid,» de Blasio said.
Last month, federal prosecutors listed him among 10 un-charged participants in an alleged bribery scheme involving ex-NYPD Deputy Inspector James Grant, a former
66th Precinct commander, and Jeremy Reichberg, a former fund - raiser for Mayor de Blasio.
Once he returns, however, Avella said he will begin meeting with
police precinct commanders and school principals and start setting up town hall - style meetings.
Precinct commanders can use the data to modify deployments and «build relations between police and communities,» the city says.
«We're going to hold every one of the principals to the same kind of standards that
our precinct commanders are held to via CompStat,» Mr. de Blasio said today at Richmond Hill High School.
New Police Commissioner Bill Bratton moving
some precinct commanders into, out of and around the borough:
An NYPD sergeant is accusing the police department of covering up the worst sins in the 2015 Queens karaoke club corruption scandal, including a plot to frame
a precinct commander for rape.
Both mayor and police have said the decision to release the bishop was made by
a precinct commander before word of Mr. de Blasio's call to inquire about his status had made its way to the precinct.
Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson let stand a report that she called
a precinct commander to quash a ticket for dangerous driving — in string - pulling that demonstrates unfitness to continue as chair of the City Council Public Safety Committee.
«So we're going to hold every one of the principles to the same kind of standards that
our precinct commanders are held to via CompStat,» de Blasio said.
Sgt. Paul Ferrara, 43, died Aug. 28 after battling Stage 4 lung cancer that spread throughout his body, according to friends and
his precinct commander.
There were questions to the commissioner, which when it involved a specific location he called up
that precinct commander.
These regular gatherings brought together top brass with all 76
precinct commanders, the police force's key line managers.
Bratton did replace half of
his precinct commanders, but not immediately.
The Time cover story on Bratton begins with an account of a semiweekly Compstat meeting, in which
a precinct commander is grilled about a rise in robberies and his response.
In weekly meetings,
precinct commanders were held accountable for quickly addressing crime spikes.