In announcing O’Neill’s selection, Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio said he would be tasked with expanding a “neighborhood policing plan” the department first unveiled previous year amid tensions stirred by the police chokehold death of Eric Garner and the subsequent ambush slaying of two NYPD officers by a suicidal gunman out for revenge.
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“In terms of our grant money from the Department of Homeland Security, New York City, the New York City area, is still No. 1 on the list”, Johnson told a Christian Science Monitor breakfast.
The news of Bratton’s resignation came abruptly, during a time when the NYPD has seen its fair share of disgrace with recent federal corruption probes that led to the arrests of three high-ranking officers and early retirement from others.
Williams went on to congratulate James O’Neill on the appointment to the new Commissioner position and encouraged him to continue to move the ball forward.
He cites as examples reductions in stops, a shift away from stop-and-frisk, and a relaunch of community policing since Bratton’s return to NY in 2013.
On Bratton’s watch, the NYPD has drastically scaled back its “stop-and-frisk” strategy, but stepped up enforcement against of so-called “quality of life” offenses.
O’Neill, who has been with the NYPD for his entire career, said the program draws on some of the same lessons he learned in 1983 when he was a rookie transit officer patrolling a subway system ravaged by crime.
He joked that he had to pick the mayor up off the floor. Gomez is also the NYPD’s highest ranking Hispanic officer. “I’ve worked with him over the last two and a half years, known him for 25 years.an individual who believes, like I do, that policing needs to change and reform”.
He stressed that this is just his personal opinion, but it’s coming from a man with leadership experience in several of America’s biggest cities, where he’s played a key role in developing modern policing for over four decades.
Mr. Trump claimed to be the “law and order candidate” during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, The Hill reported.
As well as New York, Bratton has headed departments in Los Angeles and Boston and returned to New York for his second stint as commissioner in December, 2013. The person was not authorized to speak publicly before a press conference announcing it and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
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He recently heaped praise on the commander he installed as the top chief of the NYPD, James O’Neill.
