April 5, 2020 – In Breaking News – NEW YORK POST
Former NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton warned that New York could face a “crime virus” thanks to the state legislature’s bungled overhaul of the controversial bail reform bill.
“They are not doing enough,” Bratton told host John Catsimatidis on his AM-970 radio show “The Cat’s Roundtable” in an interview that aired Sunday.
“I’d expressed a concern when the initial reforms came out, they were poorly written, poorly conceived and being poorly implemented.”
“I worried that if they started tinkering with it once again and needed to ‘reform the reforms,’ that they would make even more of a mess of it — and they’ve done it,” Bratton said.
“The New York legislature almost needs to be named the New York Department of Sanitation, because they put so much garbage in, they basically generate a lot of garbage coming out, and that reform package coming out is more of the same.”
“I guess we’ll have to wait and see whatever the final package actually is, but from what I’m hearing it doesn’t sound too good.”
“As we finally get rid of one virus there’s going to be a second virus created by the legislature, which is gonna be the crime virus,” the ex-commish added.
Continue reading… Bill Bratton warns New York could face ‘crime virus’ over bail reform bill
(Criticism is mounting over new bail reform laws, after a homeless man accused of violence was arrested yet again. It was the suspect’s second arraignment in a week. Now, former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is speaking out. Courtesy of CBS New York and YouTube. Posted on Jan 12, 2020.)
Virus’s Toll on N.Y. Police: 1 in 6 Officers Is Out Sick
April 3, 2020 – In Breaking News – The New York Times
One out of every six New York City police officers is out sick or in quarantine.
A veteran detective and seven civilian workers have died from the disease caused by the coronavirus.
And two chiefs and the deputy commissioner in charge of counterterrorism are among more than 1,500 others in the department who have been infected.
With a heavy heart, we announce the passing of Auxiliary Police Sergeant Angel Leon, who died yesterday from coronavirus-related complications. He served the NYPD, & the people of the Bronx, since 1981.
All of NYC is keeping Angel’s family & friends in our prayers.#NeverForget pic.twitter.com/kmcuV9LavL
— Commissioner Shea (@NYPDShea) April 5, 2020
With weeks to go before the epidemic is expected to peak, the virus has already strained the Police Department at a time when its 36,000 officers have been asked to step up and help fight it by enforcing emergency rules intended to slow its spread.
The epidemic has also added a new level of risk and anxiety to police work, even as reports of most serious crimes have dropped steeply since the city imposed the new rules.
Every arrest or interview now carries the potential for infection, officers say.
“It’s a stressful job at the best of times,” the police commissioner, Dermot F. Shea, said on Tuesday in a live stream.
“Right now, I don’t think you can imagine a worse point of time.”
(The coronavirus has already had a dramatic impact on the NYPD. Courtesy of CBS New York and YouTube. Posted on Apr 1, 2020.)
Police departments across the country are facing similar challenges.
In Detroit, for instance, a fifth of the police force is quarantined, and the chief of police is one of about 40 officers infected.
But the magnitude of the crisis for police in New York dwarfs the dozens of cases reported in other big-city police departments and sheriffs offices, like those in Houston and Los Angeles.
On Thursday, 6,498 New York officers called in sick — about 18 percent of the force — with most of them reporting flulike symptoms.
The numbers have been steadily climbing for about three weeks, Mr. Shea said.
The department’s weekly Compstat meetings, usually devoted to dissecting crime patterns, have been usurped by daily meetings to address the pandemic, he said.
In Manhattan, a third of the officers in two precincts — the 30th in Harlem and the 33rd in Washington Heights — were out sick this week.
So were dozens of officers from the 43rd Precinct in the Bronx, one that has some of the city’s highest crime rates.
Police commanders in New York have begun taking pages from disaster plans designed for blackouts, hurricanes and terror attacks, and officials are making revisions by the hour.
“There’s no blueprint,” said a sergeant who tested positive for Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
“It’s a worst-case scenario across the board.”
Continue reading… Virus’s Toll on N.Y. Police: 1 in 6 Officers Is Out Sick
Bill Bratton Honored with ‘ASTORS’ 2019 Person of the Year Award
William J. Bratton
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