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NYPD: Arrests, Summonses Down Since Pantaleo Was Fired

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 9/12/19

Commissioner James P. O’Neill’s on Wednesday acknowledged that there was a notable drop in the number of summonses and arrests during the last two weeks of August—the time period following his firing of Officer Daniel Pantaleo and Police Benevolent Association President Patrick J. Lynch’s subsequent call to officers that they exercise “the utmost caution” in their interactions with the public.

The Commissioner did not dispute the perception that officers are engaged in a work slowdown, though he declined to use that word when pressed by reporters at Police Headquarters.

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