NYPD Chief 'Outraged' At Cuomo For Calling Policing A 'Disgrace'

NEW YORK CITY — The NYPD's "outraged" Chief of Department hit out at Governor Andrew Cuomo Tuesday for criticism that his cops who are "giving their blood" are failing to keep New York City safe.

Cuomo called the NYPD and Mayor Bill de Blasio's inabilty to halt two nights of looting a "disgrace" and debated displacing the mayor and bringing in the National Guard.

His comments elicited rage from Chief of Department Terence Monahan, the NYPD's most senior uniformed cop, in an interview with the New York Post.

“Our guys are tired, they’re bleeding,” he told the newspaper. “I think everyone you’re going to see is walking around cut up. But they’re out there again tonight. They’re out there giving their blood to keep this city safe.”

He went on: "I’m watching my men and women out there dealing with stuff that no cop should ever have to deal with, bricks, bottles, rocks. Hit in the face with bottles and continuing to go forward to make an arrest.

“This leadership team from every angle of this department is out on the streets, working side by side with their men and for a Governor to be sitting in his office saying that we’re not doing a good job — I’m outraged.”

Monahan also hit out at a change in the state's bail reform which went into place in April and limits crimes that judges can set bail for mainly to violent felonies.

“When it comes to a burglary, which is a commercial store, which is looting, they’re back out,” he said. “Because of bail reform you’re back out on the street the next day. You cannot be held on any sort of bail."

Read the New York Post's article here.