For The Record

When New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, not long after Mayor de Blasio and his wife had left the MSNBC studio of “Morning Joe,” used his own appearance on the talk program Sept. 8 to take a bite out of the Mayor’s claims about reducing crime, Bill Bratton saw it as an attempt to figuratively get off the George Washington Bridge. By the time he got done with the equivalent of a stationhouse grilling on “Inside City Hall,” the following evening, Mr. Christie may have been feeling more deflated than his numbers in the presidential polls.

After contending that the Mayor and Chirlaine McCray may be the only two New Yorkers who believed NYPD claims a week earlier that overall crime was down and that the homicide and shooting numbers had declined between June and the end of August, Mr. Christie held up the front page of that morning’s New York Post, which focused on the shooting hours before the West Indian Day Parade in Crown Heights that had left a Cuomo-administration attorney, Carey Gabay, in a medically-induced coma.