Mayor Bill de Blasio says the state attorney general’s recommendation to have a commission oversee the city’s police department “just won’t work.”
“In terms of that particular proposal, I don’t think it will work. I think it would be counterproductive,” de Blasio said Thursday.
New York State Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the NYPD’s recent interactions with protesters and shared her preliminary findings Wednesday.
“The police should not police themselves, period. It requires change, and it requires reform, and it requires transparency and accountability,” she said. “At this point in time, why is this one agency treated so differently than all of the others?”
Among her recommendations, James called for a separate commission to appoint the police commissioner. Under current rules, the mayor chooses the commissioner.
De Blasio argued reforms can only move quickly when there’s “unity of command” and “true accountability.”
“My accountability is to the people. When you create any kind of commission, when you create diffusion of accountability, things don’t work,” he said. “We all understand the problems we see at any agency that doesn’t have a single accountable leader. So I think that proposal just won’t work.”
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I keep saying Deblasio is a racist. How dare he question the decision of the black AG. Doesn’t this guy fare for his life. BLM is going to run him out of town.
Really rich for DiBlasio to discuss anything pertaining to work with NYPD. He highhandedly destroyed NYC and the NYPD.
To SlomoB: I don’t like everything DeBlasio has done as mayor, but life in NYC is still pretty good. Could you point to some statistics that show the destruction of NYC? Keep in mind that the last 4 months have been, well, weird because of a pandemic.