Bill de Blasio and the NYPD Are Off to a Rocky Start

Last Friday, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton promised to bring a new level of transparency to the country's largest police department. "There should be no secrets in the NYPD,” Bratton told the Citizens Crime Commission during a breakfast meeting. "We are going to do more to open up the organization, to make it more inclusive, to make our information more readily available to the public, and to try and format it in a way that is more easily retrievable.”

Bratton didn't get specific, but it's unlikely the past week's "transparency" is what he had in mind. Not only have NYPD lips been surprisingly loose about the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, they've also spread word of some unbecoming behavior by Mayor Bill de Blasio.