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NYPD police chief admits officers are in 'slowdown' protest: 'It's being corrected'
Source: The Guardian
NYPD police chief admits officers are in 'slowdown' protest: 'It's being corrected'
Nicky Woolf in New York
theguardian.com, Friday 9 January 2015 22.56 GMT
The New York police commissioner, Bill Bratton, has confirmed that there is a work-slow protest in progress among NYPD officers. Bratton told NPR’s All Things Considered: “Quite clearly, we’re in a slowdown.”
“It is being corrected,” Bratton continued. “We’ve been taking management initiatives to identify where it’s occurring, when it’s occurring. I think the officers themselves have on their own been beginning to return to normal patterns of work, so we’re coming out of what was a pretty widespread stoppage of certain types of activity.”
The numbers for police activity, especially for summonses issued for minor traffic offences or other offences such as marijuana possession or jumping the barriers at subway stations, dropped dramatically in the weeks following the 20 December shooting deaths of two police officers in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood.
Police and police unions have been at odds with the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, over his apparent support for recent protests against perceived police brutality towards minorities and remarks about training his son, who is biracial, to be careful around the NYPD.
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Nicky Woolf in New York
theguardian.com, Friday 9 January 2015 22.56 GMT
The New York police commissioner, Bill Bratton, has confirmed that there is a work-slow protest in progress among NYPD officers. Bratton told NPR’s All Things Considered: “Quite clearly, we’re in a slowdown.”
“It is being corrected,” Bratton continued. “We’ve been taking management initiatives to identify where it’s occurring, when it’s occurring. I think the officers themselves have on their own been beginning to return to normal patterns of work, so we’re coming out of what was a pretty widespread stoppage of certain types of activity.”
The numbers for police activity, especially for summonses issued for minor traffic offences or other offences such as marijuana possession or jumping the barriers at subway stations, dropped dramatically in the weeks following the 20 December shooting deaths of two police officers in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood.
Police and police unions have been at odds with the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, over his apparent support for recent protests against perceived police brutality towards minorities and remarks about training his son, who is biracial, to be careful around the NYPD.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/09/nypd-police-chief-officers-work-slow-protest
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