The city’s top cop visited the police precincts Thursday morning of the two cops who were shot to death last month while sitting in their patrol car, he said at a Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce breakfast.
“It means so much to them, the outpouring of support, caring and love,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told the audience at the chamber’s Brooklyn Newsmakers breakfast at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering in downtown Brooklyn.
Bratton said he visited the borough’s 84th and 79th Precincts earlier in the morning. Police have been reeling in the wake of the execution-style murders of Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos on Dec. 20.
Bratton said cops in the 84th Precinct still have visible reminders of the public’s support nearly a month later.
“They were still sorting through the many cards, many gifts, that had been (sent) to the precinct,” Bratton said.
The officers, who were promoted to detective posthumously, were shot by cop-hater Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who then killed himself.
The Bratton visit may have been an olive branch to officers — some of whom have been angry about critical comments from Mayor de Blasio.
Bratton assured cops that despite labor woes the NYPD “will be there for you,” citing two cops shot in Bronx last week while responding to an armed robbery.
“We will work out our issues, as we always do,” he said,
Bratton also mentioned at the breakfast that the NYPD planned to improve bulletproof vests used by cops and that all cops would be getting email accounts, finally.
“How long has email been around?” he said incredulously.
