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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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King added it is important for the mayor to sit down with NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and union leaders like Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, to make it clear — «not just as a matter of etiquette» — that he stands with the police officers.

COLLEGE POINT — A two - hour meeting Tuesday between Mayor Bill de Blasio, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and leaders of the five police unions, which have been sparring with City Hall about the administration's treatment of police officers, ended without a resolution, according to Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch.

Source said the mayor was «professional» at the summit at the new police headquarters in College Point, during which union leaders voiced their frustrations about the department's relationship with City Hall and de Blasio took aim at the media again for poisoning the well.

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.

New York City's largest police union is planning to launch an independent political campaign against Mayor Bill de Blasio's 2017 re-election bid, and its leader has already begun meeting with potential challengers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leaders of the city's police unions, who have accused Mayor Bill de Blasio of siding with protesters, say his leniency toward them laid the groundwork for Brinsley's rampage.

«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.

CIVIC CENTER — NYPD union leaders again failed to reach an accord with city officials after meeting with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton for two hours Wednesday evening.

The leaders of the five police unions have been at odds with the mayor and police commissioner over what they see as a lack of support for officers during recent protests following the Eric Garner decision, the death of two detectives in Brooklyn and the wounding of two plainclothes officers in The Bronx.

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

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.

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.

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.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about NYS Senate Leader Dean Skelos, tasers in police departments across the state, and a stinky situation in Amsterdam.

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.

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.

Police commissioner Bill Bratton — who met with Mayor Bill de Blasio and the leaders of law enforcement unions this afternoon — did not attend the news conference, though he was initially scheduled to host it.

The leader of one of the city's five police unions said today that Mayor Bill de Blasio, at odds with the NYPD for several months now, will not acknowledge that there's even a rift between the two parties.

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.