NYPD commissioner: Rift between de Blasio, police will go on for awhile

“I think it’s probably a rift that’s going to go on for a while longer,” Bratton said. “The issues go far beyond the race relations in this city. They involve labor contracts, a lot of history in this city that’s really different from some of what’s going on in the country as a whole….There’s a whole series of local issues that are impacting on our ability to move forward.”

“But we will be making that effort,” he continued. “We have to make that effort. We have no other recourse.”

Bratton declined to criticize PBA head Pat Lynch, whose statements that de Blasio had “blood on his hands” greatly escalated tensions following last weekend’s ambush-style shooting of two NYPD officers.