New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is expected to announce his resignation during a news conference with Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
He will be replaced by current Chief of Department James O’Neill, according to the report, which cites unnamed city officials. Bratton will remain in his current role until September, when he will return to the private sector.
Bratton served as commissioner twice: first under former mayor Rudy Giuliani from 1994 until his resignation in 1996, and again when de Blasio named Bratton commissioner in 2013. He also led Boston and Los Angeles’ police departments. After riots in London in 2011, according to The New York Times, former Prime Minister David Cameron floated the idea of recruiting Bratton to manage British police forces.
h/t CNBC
Trump: “It’s about time. The streets were covered in snow last year. Sad.”
Bratton will remain in his current role until September, when he will return to the private sector.
That was fast this was just going on yesterday:
"Anti-police violence organization Millions March NYC this morning began occupying City Hall Park in Downtown Manhattan, demanding NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton’s immediate resignation and an end to his signature Broken Windows policing.
“We’re not targets,” Millions March organizer Cleo Jeffryes told us last month,
when the occupation was announced. “We’re human beings. Bill Bratton is
a racist and a bigot who’s done so much to harm the black and brown
community.”
Bratton isn’t needed. Trump has already said all crime is ending on Day One (insert Hallelujah Chorus here) of his administraton.
I think this sounds really unfair, when he as chief in Los Angeles he always set a good tone and always emphasized the police’s obligation to the community. He never called out protestors or people with complaints and relations between the LAPD and minorities improved immensely (thought they started pretty low!).
I can understand why people would be upset with Broken Windows and data-driven policing and how they definitely have a heavier impact on minority communities but I’ve never seen any evidence that he is a “racist and a bigot” or that he sees any minority or protester as a “target.”