The Mayor, the Commissioner and the NYPD

New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton speaks at a news conference at police headquarters to announce new figures on decreasing crime and violence January 5, 2015 in New York City.

Brigid Bergin, WNYC's City Hall and politics reporter, and Azi Paybarah, political reporter for Capital New York, joins us to discuss Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton's fraught relationship with the NYPD and the PBA - including the apparent work slowdown by cops to register their discontent.  They're joined by Al-Jazeera legal analystJami Floyd, and Legal Aid Society attorney, Russell Novack, to discuss the implications of the NYPD's "virtual work stoppage" on policing, the crime rate and quality-of-life crimes.