After 31 months leading the NYPD, Police Commissioner William J. Bratton announced last week that he would retire next month. Mayor de Blasio said he will be succeeded by Chief of Department James P. O’Neill, an associate of the Commissioner’s going back 26 years to their days in the Transit Police.
“I’m leaving with reluctance,” Mr. Bratton, 68, said at a City Hall press conference Aug. 2 with Mr. de Blasio and Mr. O’Neill. “I wish I had more time chronologically to stay around three, four years to work on the issues that are going to take that long to straighten out, but I don’t have that kind of time.”
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