When Bernard Kerik became New York City's police commissioner last summer, crime was down but relations were increasingly tense between the police and the city's minorities.
A plan to reduce the size of the European Commission - roughly speaking, the EU's executive - from 2014 so that not every member-state will have its own commissioner was watered down, however.
Michael P. O'Looney, the Police Department's chief spokesman, said that although overall crime was down, Commissioner Kelly was concerned by the recent increase in reported rapes.
PROFILE of New York City police commissioner William Bratton, 47. Over-all crime was down 12.3%, shooting incidents were down 16.38%, murders were down 18.75%--the steepest… Talk story on the Mollen Commission and the its chairman, Milton Mollen.
PROFILE of New York City police commissioner William Bratton, 47. Over-all crime was down 12.3%, shooting incidents were down 16.38%, murders were down 18.75%--the steepest drops in memory, and largely beyond statistical dispute.
By James Lardner The New Yorker, February 6 , 1995P. 45 PROFILE of New York City police commissioner William Bratton, 47. Over-all crime was down 12.3%, shooting incidents were down 16.38%, murders were down 18.75%--the steepest drops in memory, and largely beyond statistical dispute.
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"The police commissioner says crime is down, but the homicides, that isn't going down at all.
"The commissioner was a little freaked by having cameras down there," said Mr. Kramer, who is 30.
Joseph P. Dunne, first deputy police commissioner, said that while homicides were down and arrests were up in recent years, domestic violence cases could be difficult to prosecute.
