The City needs consequences for crime.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is today is the former police Commissioner of the NYPD and Bill Bratton, one s moret guy, and everybody really trust him. What he has to say. Commissioner Braughton, tell us what the heck is going on? A lot of people are concerned and they don’t know if they’re if they’re coming or going.

0:24 Speaker 2 Well, they should be concerned, John, That people you’re talking about are the presidents of New York City, the sixty million tourists of visit that city, the three or four million people trying to work there and go to school every day. What they should be concerned about is the growth in fear of crime and the sart of the city.

0:44 You know, some of the numbers are looking good, girders and shootings that there are other areas that are very problematic. One of those is subway crime and disorder. The partners recently surged hundreds thousands of offices into the subway. Once again, one of the things we know is if you put cops where they need it, you’re going to have a

1:08 reduction crime. Well, the subways certainly need those editional cocks, but the problem is there are not enough cops in New York City. I saw an article this morning in the paper about they were celebrating that the cups that the mayor had talked about in the budget were going to be restored. But according to this article that what

1:27 is not being restored is the hiring of new classes, so that there’s some sense that within a year or two the department may be as low as thirty thousand headcounts. We have not seen that head count in decades. I had thirty eight thousand cops when I was a police commission.

1:44 As recently as sixenty sixteen, I had almost thirty six thousand. The pop is down on thirty three thousand. We’re wearing these cops out, frustrated and there’s just done enough of them. But the city Council is not going to fund the police departmentaut equally, and that is very troubling, very very troubling.

2:05 Speaker 1 I agree with you, Commission, one hundred percent. And we are still still losing people out of New York City that are concerned about their safety. I mean, I walk around at night. I’m concerned when it’s after dark. And I got some politicians that are telling me, oh, they have no problem walking around.

2:32 Speaker 2 Well, they must be walking well with the blindfolds on that. I’m reminded of the town situation in the city where cops are trying so I’m in touch with them all the time. Well an ingenuity, a lot of creativity, but they’re just not enough for them. They’re still not getting enough support for the rest of the criminal justice system.

2:51 This criminal justice reform and bare reform actor has been disastrous for the city. But a reminder of role of New York cartoon from the nineteen ninety when I first got here, and it shows us Stella looking up at the sign and the sciences high crime area run well. Unfortunately, there are too many areas in New York City where

3:12 we need to put those signs up because there are still significant areas of high crime and we’re not going to get this resolve without one more cops, two without this city Council in this legislature effectively recognizing that the reforms are not working, Reforms that were intended to benefit the criminal and not the victim. And who’s now benefiting

3:36 the criminal, not the victim, And that is why there’s so much fear in the city at this particular point in time.

3:45 Speaker 1 And it should be I agree one hundred percent to be question. I look, both of us love New York and we want New York to make it so. Hey, you know, Mayor Adams is using talking about what’s going on with the City Council and etc. But what happens if the mayor puts his foot down? What is the

4:10 city Council going to do to him?

4:14 Speaker 2 Well, the intricacies of how New York works or doesn’t work, particularly politically, is that the mayor has great power, particularly in setting the budget, allocation of resources, allogate resources the district attorney’s offices, for example. But this city Council is now made up of basically a majority, a significant majority of radical lefts. There is no longer a middle at

4:40 the city Council. There are some to the right, but the fast majority to the left. Mayor added As is pretty much a centrist. But it’s him against the mob and the marbat City Council. They don’t get it, They really do not that they’ve exfused to admit that so much of what they’re advocating for in implementing is not

5:01 working in the city. And the headlines tell the story every day. Well, someunb crime is down, a lot of other crime is up. And the department low morale understandably, it feels believed. Plus they’re losing so many seeds and vetterments.

5:19 We have now a very young workforce in the NYPD without many years of experience because the turnover has been so great, and that is problematic. Despite all the advances in technology, despite all the advances and capability, we have a very young police department and a lot of the experience is so necessary has gone out the door, and

5:41 more will go out the door. One of the problems with all this overtime is spending and the subways, for example, great for a short period of time it gets crime down, but you will wear the cops out. They don’t get days off, and they make so much money in overtime that they will say it tied at the end of

5:56 the year because they’re worried that the next year the overtime won’t be there. In New York City, their pension is based on their last year of salary, so if they’re making a lot of money in overtime this year, they’re worried that if they were to retire next year, they’re not going to have the same retirement conference. So

6:14 there’s so many distance centives to stay in the NYP right now, and.

6:19 Speaker 1 That’s going to cause a problem in the budget in the future. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Any advice to the citizens of New York. I mean, it’s just, you know, I’m scratching my head. I don’t know what to say anymore.

6:36 Speaker 2 Well, isn’t that the truth that you’ve heard me on your show? Us A quote from Ed Corti after he lost his last bitty for elections to mayor. When asked about it, he said, well, look, the voters are spoken now they must be punished. Well, the voters in New York are very small majority of them who come out

6:55 to vote in the primary and thus end up influencing significantly what happens in the election. Those voters just don’t get it that they’re destroying the city. They’re dissembling it a brick of the time with the crazy laws is supporting and the politicians that they’re electing. Ultimately, who are you blaming for the way New York is going? The

7:15 voters that small majority who do vote. Who you also blame the voters who don’t vote, which is saying we’re to turn out the Centrists and others they would be the majority insteadily allow the minority to effectively rule the city.

7:31 And look what we’re getting.

7:34 Speaker 1 Understood well, Commissioner Bratton. We pray for our city and whatever you need a voice to speak out for our city, you have it at WABC. And and thank you so much for coming on and let’s pray for our city again.

7:50 Speaker 2 Thank you, sir, Thank you for belonging to event John. I wish I could give more than just event