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Former NYPD Commissioner William Bratton shared his ideas for solving New York City's crime surge.
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Army vet Bill Bratton , who has commanded six police
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Inappropriate use of guns by the law-abiding population and
watch shooting incidents increase.

“For small shops steel gates are coming back. Empty storefronts have homeless living in doorways.
Legislative action is such that you can shoplift over and over. And the DA won’t prosecute . Steal under a
certain amount and you won’t get arrested. There’s no punishment for crimes.

“2018 was New York’s safest year. Fewer than 100,000 serious crimes, 300 murders. The next year
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Bratton criticized soft-on-crime district attorneys like Manhattan’s Alvin Bragg for not prosecuting criminals. at 6 a.m. every day for 60 years
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“And Manhattan’s DA doesn’t want to put criminals in jail. He’s risking the rest of the population by giving 70,982
them chances. Sorry, you’re caught with a gun committing a crime? You should go to jail!”

Need more people and training

“For all New York’s issues now, the police department is not large enough. Cops have a hard time
protecting themselves for fear of being sued and maybe wrongful arrest. It’s a mess. Law enforcement Iwore a skimpy bikini to Disney to get
also has not enough civilian captains — people who see something and say something. free shirt — but it backfired

“Officers need training. It’s like not wanting a doctor to give too much chemo or radiation. You want just
the right amount to cure you. Same in terms of our risk. You don’t make the patient sicker — just what’s
correct. Stop-and-frisk , a great tool, can be moderated. Done away with — but it’s an essential tool. You
can’t police without it. The challenge is to do it constitutionally. Within the law. Moderated up and down
depending on the crime but it must be here to stay. When I ran the department in the early ’90s we had
even more crime.”

Bratton called for putting more NYPD officers into the subway system.
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“For subways, more officers need to be in the system . Technology today helps. I’d advocate cameras that
monitor in real time from a control room or the conductor’s cab so you’re not reviewing a crime after it
happens but before it happens. From the conductor’s cab you can’t see the curve in these trains. It’s a
major defect.

“As for recruiting officers, part of the problem was that during COVID the police academy stopped giving
tests and the recruiting process. The pool reduced dramatically from our normal 30,000. They’re now in a
yearlong process of formulating new exams, so temporarily the department’s down about 1,200 officers.
That’ll change.”

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