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BRATTON MEETS WITH COPS UNIONS.

NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton met today with the heads of the Unions rep­re­sent­ing that Agency’s cops. 
The NYdailynews​.com reports Police Commissioner Bill Bratton met with the heads of the city’s five police unions Wednesday in an attempt to put anger with de Blasio aside and con­tin­ue to keep work­ing to keep the city safe. When asked why he wasn’t at the meet­ing, the may­or said he is always will­ing to talk but ‘the vast major­i­ty of those com­mu­ni­ca­tions with those unions, of course, comes from the com­mis­sion­er, his lead­er­ship team.

NYPD COPS ENGAGING IN ILLEGAL WORK SLOW-DOWN

NYPD sources said Monday that city cops seem to be engag­ing in a work slow­down to show they’re unhap­py with Mayor de Blasio’s treat­ment of the police force. Police Commissioner Bill Bratton vowed a ‘com­pre­hen­sive review.’ The num­ber of arrests city­wide plum­met­ed by 56% for the week end­ing Sunday, from 5,448 dur­ing the same time peri­od a year ago to 2,401. The num­ber of peo­ple slapped with crim­i­nal sum­mons­es for offens­es like drink­ing in pub­lic fell 92% for the same week, from 4,077 to just 347. Just 749 motorists were hit with mov­ing vio­la­tions, com­pared with 9,349 a year ago — a 92% drop. And the num­ber of park­ing sum­mons­es issued fell by a whop­ping 90%, from 16,008 to just 1,191. In Brooklyn’s 84^th Precinct, home base for Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, the two hero police offi­cers who were exe­cut­ed by a cop-hat­ing mani­ac, a grand total of just two tick­ets were writ­ten for mov­ing vio­la­tions. Not a sin­gle park­ing or Criminal Court sum­mons was issued. Over in the 79^th Precinct, the Brooklyn precinct in which Liu and Ramos were killed Dec. 20, just eight park­ing tick­ets and two mov­ing vio­la­tions were writ­ten. In all of Brooklyn North — encom­pass­ing 10 precincts — police wrote 216 sum­mons­es. During the same time last year, they’d writ­ten 4,076.

deBLASIO PUSHES BACK AT POLICE DEPARTMENT’S DISRESPECTFUL COPS.

‘I think it defies a lot of what we all feel is the right and decent thing to do,’ the Mayor said Monday dur­ing a press con­fer­ence in which he and police Commissioner Bratton tout­ed a 4.6% drop in crime city­wide in 2014. Ironically, the num­ber of sum­mons­es issued dur­ing the week end­ing Sunday dropped more than 90% com­pared to last year in a work slow­down as part of the rank-and-file’s con­tin­ued protest against de Blasio over per­ceived anti-cop sen­ti­ments. Mayor de Blasio gave the cops who turned their backs on him a good smack Monday. Speaking for the first time about the pub­lic diss­ing he endured at the funer­alsof hero cops Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, de Blasio said “they were dis­re­spect­ful to the fam­i­lies involved.”

BRATTON MUST STOP THE WAR BETWEEN COPS UNDER HIS COMMAND AND THE MAYOR.

The war of words between the may­or and the police unions has led to a major slow­down of police action in the streets, with dis­as­trous con­se­quences for New York City res­i­dents, writes Daniel DiSalvo, assis­tant pro­fes­sor of polit­i­cal sci­ence at the City College of New York. For the sec­ond week since the killings of two offi­cers in Brooklyn, cops are on the beat but aren’t doing much polic­ing. Officers wrote 90% few­er sum­mons­es and traf­fic tick­ets than in the same peri­od a year ago. Burglary arrests have dropped 40%. Arrests for all crimes have dropped by 56%. And there have been more mur­ders, rob­beries and rapes than over the equiv­a­lent week last year. The pub­lic is being held hostage to a fit of police offi­cer piqué. We know the sto­ry. Conflict between de Blasio and the police unions began dur­ing the 2013 may­oral cam­paign, when de Blasio attacked stop-and-frisk.