The reason my cops are engaging with your kids is because in some respects you've let your kids get out of control William Bratton "We will continue our focus on crime and disorder," Bratton tells the Guardian as we moved through thick Manhattan traffic the other week en route to the funeral of Gertrude Schimmel, the first female police sergeant of the NYPD.
For example, the NYPD undervalued property losses so that an incident was not listed as a felony, and a series of crimes in one place might be listed as a single event.
The mayor added that Garner's case will go through a thorough internal investigation at the NYPD.
In 1994 Rudy Giuliani, who had been elected New York's mayor after promising to clean up the city's streets, appointed Mr Bratton as head of the NYPD.
Never mind that this irritated the FBI and the CIA the "three-letter guys", as Mr Dickey calls them who tended to regard the NYPD as some kind of Johnny-come-lately muscling in on their turf.Mr Dickey ends up admiring Mr Kelly and Mr Cohen for creating a counter-terror organisation which many now regard as among the most energetic.
Bratton doesn't accept blame for the stop-and-frisk explosion that blew up after he moved on from his first stint as NYPD commissioner from 1994 until 1996.
Bad policing by a few "stigmatizes all of us", he says, yet the 35,000 cops of the NYPD are the "most restrained in the country".
The NYPD said there were more than 60 arrests.
Though there has been a drop in overall crime in New York City, NYPD officials said on Monday that they are working to address the increase in gun activity before the hot summer months, which are correlated with an increase in crime.
Bratton's NYPD drew criticism for aggressively policing people of color during his first term, something he wrestles with in his 1998 book, Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic.
Eric Adams, a black former NYPD captain who is now borough president, says that just last month, a mother called him because her son was arrested for smoking marijuana on the street.
