Commissioner Bratton went after a potential mayoral candidate who happens to be President Obama's budget director.Įarlier this year, Shaun Donovan's office had suggested the city failed to spend its terrorism funding, so the Obama administration cut the budget. Perhaps this debate will affect next year's politics as well.

'This issue is too important to play politics with, and effectively what we are dealing with is politics,' the police commissioner said. The whole incident is currently under review.įor these officials, it may provide more proof the city needs Congress to act. 'There will be a hot wash of this that we will participate in to look at what worked,' said Bratton. 'We all have to do better at the airports,' the Mayor said. Now city officials say they need to do a better job coordinating with the Port Authority, who handles security at our airports.

The so-called gunshots were never substantiated. On Sunday night, police searched for a shooter. This rebuke came just three days after what some say was a chaotic response at JFK airport to a report of shots fired. 'How many conferences have I had with you, the media, talking about this issue that they have to spend so much time urging that they do something,' Bratton said.

'If Congress doesn't act there is going to be a lot of happy terrorists in the world because they are going to have a chance to come at us with less of our defenses up,' the Mayor said at a press conference Wednesday.įor the second time in six months, the Mayor, Police Commissioner and top city officials called on Congress and the White House to swiftly give New York City counterterrorism funding - $180 million is at stake.įlanked by three members of Congress, the Mayor and the city's top cop said Washington was letting an appropriations bill languish. The funding provides crucial counter terrorism equipment and training, and officials say without it New Yorkers will be less safe. Now they have moved on to Congress, which has failed to vote on the measure. Six months ago City Hall and top NYPD brass slammed the Obama administration for cutting their terror funding.

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