I support Mayor Adams backing the NYPD in his battle with the City Council.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is today’s former Commissioner Bill Bratton, and he is very concerned about what’s going on in New York City right now about the laws governing police officers. Commissioner Braughton tell us about it.

0:17 Speaker 2 Well, John, the law we’re referring to, the proposed law that’s been passed by the City Council, been vetoed by the Mayor. Now the City Council is going to attempt over at. The veto has a number of names, but it’s known largely as the Stop Law. It attempts to put a burden on New York City Police officers that

0:39 anybody that they and the course of their duties, stop and talk to during the course of investigation, that they have to make out a report about that stop, including the name, the sex, the gender, the race of the individual that they’re talking with. This is an incredible burden department that has millions of bits of actions every year.

1:04 And you can imagine New Yorkers who are approached by a police officer. They’re looking for a lost child, they’re looking to investigate a crime, and before they can do anything, they say to that individual, can you tell me what your race is? Can tell me are you male, female?

1:21 Or you binary? Are you transsectoral? Can you imagine the average of New Yorker respons to those questions? And it is required of the officer that they document that if the individual doesn’t get the information, that they effectively guess, guess that the person is black or Latino, guess that the person is male or female or maybe binary. It

1:43 is an unnecessary law, very typical of a lot of what our city council does in New York. Mayor Adams and Police Commissioner Kman have been forcefully pushing back on it. But right now it looks like the majority of the city Council the minority majority, and the majority of the city council are minorities majority the NYPD minorities in a

2:07 majority minority excuse me, a minority majority city. The intent of this law is to provide more transparency to make sure that the NYPD is not engaged in racially biased policing. Racially biased policing by a police force that is majority minority in a majority minority city, with the majority of criminals minority and the majority of victims a minority. But

2:33 what is the purpose of this law other than on the part of the city Council to indicate once again the intense dislike and lack of trust of the NYPD. So I have gone on so long with this smoke coming out my years thinking about the foolishness and uselessness of this bill.

2:52 Speaker 1 I mean it sounds crazy. I mean they’ll be doing paperwork when there’s other crimes being committed exactly.

3:00 Speaker 2 So we’ve been encouraging I know, going back to my time Ray Kelly Steime, we’ve been supporting community policing, neighborhood policing where you want your corps to talk to the community, to engage with the community. The average cop is going to step back from that reaching out to the community because you know, as every time he talks to somebody

3:19 not to make out a form, and if through no faults of his own, he incorrectly identifies that person as black when he’s not black, or male, when they’re not male or female and they’re our female, that they’re subject to a complaint being made against them for basically putting down erroneous information. It is, well, it’s what we’ve come

3:43 to expect of the city Council unfortunately, and the public Advocate, mister Williams.

3:48 Speaker 1 I understand that the mayor Adams is looking for two more votes to get away, you know, to have the advantage and not get overturned. What do you think the chances.

3:58 Speaker 2 Are with this council. I don’t know that the mayor has some degree of power and influence, but a lot of what’s going on here is I think it indicates that many of these people are looking at the idea of if they can weaken Mayor Adams, that in the next mayoral election, maybe they might get got at it. Suirley,

4:18 mister Williams is looking in that direction. Possibly the president of the City Council, Miss Adams, the idea, if they can decap the mayor, well, who knows, maybe they could be considered the mayor going forward in the city that tends to vote unfortunately very progressive liberal. So I think some of what’s going on here is an effort to

4:37 undercover the mayor.

4:39 Speaker 1 I think the city Council president has never been able to undercut a mayor in the past. Or who knows the future. Also, I understand I hear rumors that Andrew Cloma wants to run for mayor. But listen, I guess whatever will be will be.

4:55 Speaker 2 I don’t think that’s likely to happen that in terms of the former governor, for example, is going to have to answer for his parole board, a parole board that has within the last several years released thirty four cop murderers from prison. So there’s a lot of vulnerabilities in that candidacy in the sense of the progressiveness of his administration.

5:17 I personally like the former governor, but some of the policies that were enacted during his time with the very progressive, liberal woke legislature in Albany, I don’t think they’re going to look too good in the light of day.

5:32 Speaker 1 Commissioner, you’ve been in law enforcement all your life. There was an article today in the New York Post that the FBI is being influenced by its civilians to hire culture FBI agents.

5:47 Speaker 2 Wasn’t that incredible if there’s any validity to that. And I know every agency is attempting. My own agencies were constantly trying to hire more minority candidates, more female candidates, more gay candidates. But you want qualified candidates. You don’t want to just have a numbers game. And that article basically incured that the FBI, in an effort to meet

6:12 the numbers that are expected, is basically reducing the quality of their agents. That’s the last thing you want to do, since that agency is under such incredible attack from all sides over the last couple of years. So I hope that’s not the case, but I can understand the pressure that the FBI direction is probably under. Well.

6:30 Speaker 1 I agree with you, and like I’ve said in the past, if the FBI director is made to do something unreasonable by the survelians, you should stand up and tell that to the people and resign if necessary. I mean, it’s just it’s crazy what’s going on in our country.

6:46 Speaker 2 Commissioner, because when you’re the head of an organization like the FBI, the police Department from that matter, you have an obligation to stand up for the organization, to do what’s right for it and for the public and this whole world that we’re engaged in recent years of attempting to right the wrongs of the past. If you will

7:08 advance the interest of minorities, well intended, but you have to do it in a way that you don’t diminish respect for those minorities by putting into place people who just don’t have what it takes to do the job that doesn’t serve them any God good and I’ve seen that time and again where that has happened. We’re beta

7:29 an affirmative action appointment, somebody that is totally unqualified. Now is fair. Put good people in, no matter what they call it, or race or background, but don’t just try to do the numbers game.

7:42 Speaker 1 Thank you so much, Commissioner, Thank you for everything you’ve done and continue to do for and speak out for our citizens, and God bless you.

7:50 Speaker 2 Thank you all the best. Thank you, John Beeby