Partnering with the NYPD to Improve Public Safety

Last Spring I completed the NYPD Citizen's Police Academy. It's an 18 hour program focused on building a shared understanding of the day-to-day job, the protocols police follow, and the training our officers go through. The program demonstrated the wide range of responsibilities and challenges our officers face while working to improve public safety and help people through difficult moments.

This experience reinforced my belief that improving performance requires doing the hard work of building partnerships.

If we want to improve public safety, it starts with improving the relationships with the people that do the work.