“I know what a lot of people are fearful of,” Commissioner Keechant Sewell said. “That we’ve somehow fallen all the way back to the bad old days a time when in our worst year, 1990, there were more than 2,200 murders in New York City.”
In a Finest Message shared with cops, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said that Bragg’s plan to decriminalize minor crimes, including resisting arrest have raised concerns “about the implications to your safety as police officers, the safety of the public and justice for the victims.”