Former NYPD commissioner doubts city's crime trend will change: 'Progressive left' has 'captured' policymakers
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Bill Bratton warned New York City is unlikely to see a reversal of its violent crime trend as long as the 'progressive left' remains in charge.
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"Don't hold your breath waiting for any changes here in New York City or New York State," Bratton told "America's Newsroom" Wednesday. "The state and the city council have been captured by the progressive left, and it's unlikely that the voters are going to take them out of office anytime soon, and that's where it has to change because they create the laws and the ordinances."
"Right now, those laws and ordinances are creating the chaos that you just described in the New York court systems and the New York criminal justice system," he continued.
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