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O'Neill's Tenure Marked By Successes, But Also Friction With Street Cops

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 11/5/19

Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill’s departure from the NYPD at the end of the month will bookend a three-year tenure characterized by falling crime, the implementation of a neighborhood-policing strategy and a department with an increased reliance on technology.

He also will leave behind the nation’s largest police department buffeted, from inside and outside, by his controversial firing of an officer, the suicides of 10 others and two “friendly-fire” killings, all this year.   

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