NYPD Police Chief Bratton: 'We Are Not A Racist Organizarion" [View all]

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/09/bill-de-blasio-choke-hold_n_5664453.html

responded Friday that there are more misdemeanor arrests in minority neighborhoods because more officers are assigned there in response to higher crime rates.

"Are there more minorities impacted by enforcement? Yes. I'm not denying that," he said. "But it's not an intentional focus on minorities. It's a focus on behavior."

He added: "We are not a racist organization — not at all.".

Bratton and de Blasio also have come under fire from police union officials who were offended by the sight of the police commissioner and mayor sharing a dais with the Rev. Al Sharpton, a vocal NYPD critic, last week at a City Hall forum. The pair looked on glumly as Sharpton lectured that "the best way to make police stop using illegal chokeholds is to perp-walk one of them that did."