Bratton: Cops shouldn’t have turned backs on de Blasio

NY Post ^ | December 22, 2014 | David K. Li

[maggief]

EXCERPT

Commissioner Bill Bratton acknowledged that de Blasio has lost support of some police.

“I don’t think it (the hallway protest) was appropriate, particularly in that setting, but it’s reflective of the anger of some of them,” Bratton told NBC’s “Today” show.

(snip)

“I don’t know that an apology is necessary,” he said. “One of the things, a concern at the moment, is this issue is really starting to go down partisan lines, Republican-Democrat. This is something that should be bringing us all together, not taking us apart.”

[Sooth2222]

New York City

Bratton became the chief of the New York City Transit Police in 1990. In 1991 the Transit Police gained national accreditation under Bratton. The Department became one of only 175 law-enforcement agencies in the country and only the second in New York State to achieve that distinction. The following year it was also accredited by the State of New York, and by 1994, there were almost 4,500 uniformed and civilian members of the Department, making it the sixth largest police force in the United States. Bratton had left the NYC Transit Police returning to Boston in 1992 to head the Boston Police Department, one of his long-time ambitions.

In 1994, Bratton was appointed the 38th Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. He cooperated with Giuliani in putting the controversial broken windows theory into practice. He had success in this position, and introduced the CompStat system of tracking crimes in New York City, which is used to this day as a focal point in the development of law enforcement policy. Some have argued that CompStat has created perverse incentives for officers to allow crimes to go unreported,[10] and has encouraged police brutality, citing that complaints by citizens that involved incidents where no arrest was made or summons was issued more than doubled during the Giuliani administration.[11]

During Bratton's tenure, a new tax surcharge enabled the training and deployment of around 5,000 new, better educated, police officers; police decision-making was delegated to the individual precincts; a backlog of 50,000 unserved warrants were cleared; and, in 1995, New York's housing and transit police were merged into the New York Police Department. Bratton was also instrumental in the return of the standard NYPD uniform shirt from light blue to the dark blue it had been prior to 1972—and which was also the uniform color Bratton himself had worn as a police officer in Boston.[12]

Bratton resigned in 1996, while under investigation by the Corporation Counsel for the propriety of a book deal that he signed while in office as well as accepting multiple unauthorized trips from corporations and individuals. These offenses were generally considered minor.[13] Front and center were alleged personal conflicts with Giuliani, partly due to Giuliani's opposition to some of Bratton's reforms and partly due to Giuliani's belief that Bratton was getting more credit for the reduction in crime than Giuliani.[14]

[stanne]

Oh, we know plenty of people don’t want a New Yorker coming and doing a good job.

Is there an intelligent reason?

[Fantasywriter]

I am a southerner who lived in MA for two decades+. The anti-southern bigotry was indescribable. I had people tell me straight up that southern-accent = stupid. I listened to conservative talk radio, and heard more MA natives than I can count lump all southerners in with the snaggle-tooth perverts in Deliverance. I could go on and on. Glad there was none of that in NY. Just a short drive south makes that much difference? Who could have imagined.

[USNBandit]

Then there must be a lot of republicans on the police force

[stanne]

I’m not talking about Massachusetts, I’m talking about New York.

I know they’re all just up there north of the Mason Dixon line, wherever that is, but they are two different places.

I suggest not ganging up

[TBP]

Why not? He’s not their friend.

[Fantasywriter]

’ wherever that is, but they are two different places.

I suggest not ganging up’

I suggest re-rereading my post. You missed roughly 1/3 of it the first time.

Btw, you must think all southerners are stupid. It would take a very stupid person to live 20+ years in MA and never figure out it wasn’t NY State.

[stanne]

WELL!!

Now I go back to read your post. Second sentence in.

Am very hot when others hate me for being a New Yorker

Please forgive

[SZonian]

The problem here Mr. Bratton is that respect is a two way street.

This isn’t the military where protocol and customs/courtesies come into play...

I don’t give a damn if you believe deBlasio is due the “respect of his office”. He has already shown he has little to no respect for those who not only serve to protect he and his family, but the entire force.

You cannot force folks to show or offer any respect to a person who has already shown by deed and words that he has none for them.

[stanne]

I stepped in it.

[Fantasywriter]

Well I still get hot when I recall some of the truly abject bigotry southerners experience in MA. So very sorry if turn, in my second post was snippy. Well, it in fact was snippy. So apologies period.

[stanne]

I can imagine.

[1Old Pro]

a concern at the moment, is this issue is really starting to go down partisan lines, Republican-Democrat. This is something that should be bringing us all together, not taking us apart.”

Well, Obama is leading the charge and he had the bully pulpit. I assume Bratton is speaking to Obummer.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

a sniveling little lapdog, who is more interested in protecting his job than the well being of the police force

[Texas Eagle]

If Bratton had an ounce of decency he’d resign.

[Dahoser]

The media are guilty, no doubt, but it's the willful ignorance of Boobus America, as the great Irv Homer referred to them, that is the real problem. They simply do not want to think beyond what is presented unlike their in-depth knowledge of the Kardashians, Brangelina, fantasy leagues and various so-called real housewives.

Information about clymers like Obama and DiBlasio was easily available prior to their elections. I know we're smart in these parts, but we're not clairvoyant. (And if we are, we're doing it wrong because we're not applying it to lottery wins.)

[surrey]

If he had an ounce of decency he would never have taken the job in de Blasio’s administration. He had to know what the guy was all about. I’ve never liked Bratton who ,I think, is addicted to the celebrity circuit. I’Ve never seen a police commissioner who spends so much time on the gossip pages of the newspaper.

[Sooth2222]

If Bratton had an ounce of decency he’d resign.

He's a politician ... but he only lasted a couple of years under Giuliani.

My own guess is that de Blasio will toss him over the side at some point, exactly when will depend on the speed at which his administration is sinking. (But who would want the job now?)

[Mears]

Bratton didn’t even have a New York accent.

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[Kickass Conservative]

Bratton was a Gun Grabber in Los Angeles.

He is living in his Utopia now.