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NYPD needs to step up counterterrorism after attack on Israel: former top cop Bill Bratton
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1:58Now PlayingWith the NYPD ordering all officers to report in uniform Friday because of potential unrest stemming from the war in Israel, former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton slammed the New York City Council for anti-police sentiment that’s spurred a drop in the number of cops. NY Post reporter Dana Kennedy shares this story.
This comes as a former leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, called on Muslims to stage global demonstrations in support of Palestinians Friday.
Bratton told The Post the NYPD is down about 3,000 to 4,000 officers since he left the top job in 2016.
“The department is down to about 33,000 officers,” he said. “During my time, we were able to grow the department to about 36,000 or 37,000. This is coming at a time where potential threats around the world and the threat to the United States have increased exponentially.”
Critically, the NYPD’s two units that specialize in counterterrorism — the Critical Response Command (CRC) and the Strategic Response Group (SRG) — are down officers.
“They both have primary missions: CRC is focused on protecting against terrorist-related types of attacks and SRG is trained to deal with crowd-control demonstrations,” Bratton said. “Both have been reduced significantly in size.”
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