“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.”
His promise comes after the Sergeants Benevolent Association issued a warning to their members that Bragg’s office hid the facts of a shoplifting case that included a violent threat with a pair of scissors.