Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Bratton have implemented changes to the NYPD, but the number of low-level arrests so far is on par with what Mayor Bloomberg and then-Commissioner Ray Kelly oversaw in 2013.
Elected on a platform of police reform, the de Blasio administration has cut arrests for some low-level drug crimes, but busted more people for the controversial charge of trespassing.
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