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City is betraying our Finest
Amid calls to “defund” the police, politicians are running for the hills, refusing to give credit to the NYPD for making New York one of the safest big cities in America. Is it any wonder officers don’t feel comfortable going on patrol or making arrests?
The NYPD precinct boss who retired in protest this week was treated to a raucous send-off on Friday at his Bronx station house, where he blasted politicians for wanting to “vilify” cops.
Deputy Inspector Richard Brea’s farewell party at the 46th Precinct station house featured an NYPD helicopter fly-by and bagpipers.
In a speech at the ceremony, Brea accused politicians of not backing cops amid protests against police brutality.
“Their blood is in the concrete of every street corner, but these politicians don’t want to remember that. They want to blame and vilify everyone here. I won’t have that. No, sir,” he said.
“We have a duty and a responsibility to respect and guide other cops.”
He also showered praise on his fellow officers.
“My 46 family, the Alamo, I love you, man,” he added, using a nickname for the precinct that covers neighborhoods in the western Bronx.
After his remarks, Brea shook hands with officers and posed for photos as the crowd cheered and clapped for him.
He then climbed into a waiting vintage police car and was driven for a ceremonial lap around the block.
Brea handed in his retirement papers after nearly three decades on the force because, he said, department brass were not giving him proper instruction on how to rid the precinct’s Fordham neighborhood of guns and drugs, Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa previously told The Post.
Brea had griped that with his anti-crime unit officers reassigned, he would be forced to explain to brass why arrests in his precinct were down at a CompStat meeting this week.
“I’ll be more than happy to come to CompStat and get a beatdown, but I’m not getting guidance,” Brea allegedly told Sliwa.
Police Commissioner Dermot Shea announced last week that he was dissolving the units because they were tied to a “disproportionate” percentage of complaints and shootings. Matthew McDermott, Ben Feuerherd, Craig McCarthy and Julia Marsh