“The morale has never been as low as it is right now"

“In the case of Derek Chauvin, that one cop’s actions set policing back in the sense of public confidence, trust, race relations — set it all back 20, 30 years,” says Bratton, who calls Chauvin’s actions “100 percent a murder.” “In some respects, maybe further than that, back to when I started in 1970."... Sitting in a Manhattan hotel room, wearing a crisp white shirt, khakis, the Rolex his wife gave him and a ring that’s a replica of his N.Y.P.D. commissioner’s badge, Bratton, 73, remembers when Gotham was considered beyond saving. Now, with murder rates up by double digits in many cities, he warns: “Be careful what you wish for because, sometimes, it’s going to come and bite you in the ass. That’s effectively the ‘Defund the police’ movement. They got what they wanted. They defunded the police. What do they get? Rising crime, cops leaving in droves, difficulty recruiting. Now, they’re waking up to the fact that our cities are unsafe.”... “I’ve been all my life behind the idea that Black lives matter, the individual, the race. But as far as Black Lives Matter, the organization, I think we are beginning to understand that some of their goals are very different than what most people think the goals are. It turns out that basically their founding was based on attacking the police,” he says, adding, “It will be very interesting also to understand what are they doing with all the money that they raise.”
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