Sept. 5 was an opportunity for Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner James P. O’Neil to do a victory lap not only over August’s generally-positive major-crime statistics but following a relatively untroubled West Indian Day parade as well.
The parade and the J’Ouvert celebration that preceded it were “largely incident-free,” Mr. O’Neill said at a Police Headquarters press conference. This was “attributable, I think, to the close partnership of the NYPD, event organizers and community members—and certainly due to the tireless professionalism of our men and women in uniform.”
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