Bratton tells Council he wants to hire 1,000 new officers

[hrmjustin]

Azi Paybarah

Police commissioner Bill Bratton said Monday that he will ask city lawmakers for permission to hire more than 1,000 new officers, a turnaround from his earlier resistance to the City Council’s push to increase the size of the NYPD.

During a two-hour appearance before the Council’s public safety committee, Bratton said he is looking at “what should the size of the NYPD be, going forward. We are in the process of closing in on those numbers. That will be in excess of a thousand additional officers we’ll be looking for.”

Bratton said he would include the request in next year’s police budget.

Some of the new hires would help support the massive retraining of the 35,000-member department Bratton ordered in the wake of the July 17 death of Eric Garner, who died in police custory from an apparent chokehold.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2014/09/8552097/bratton-tells-council-he-wants-hire-1000-new-officers?top-featured-3

[SummerSnow]

1. I have a huge problem with this so called " re-training"

[hrmjustin]

2. I am skeptical myself.