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The NYPD's new training czar will crack down on potty-mouthed cops, the New York Post reports. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The NYPD's new training czar vowed Tuesday that his regime will crack down on officers who use unnecessary force and spew profanity on duty in an effort to reduce the number of civilian complaints against cops, the New York Post reports.
Michael Julian, who was sworn in as the department's deputy commissioner of training Tuesday at police headquarters, said afterward that he thinks he can reform profane police officers.
"It's all about a New York attitude, New Yorkers like to curse...but you can change," Julian said, according to The Post. "And when we teach them...They will see that they are doing it for effect and they don't have to do it anymore."
Julian's mission is not borne of a puritanical bent, but rather cold, hard numbers.
"Thirty percent of all CCRB complaints involve a curse word," he said, per The Post.
Julian, who served under Bratton in the 1990s and retired in 1994, was brought back this year as a consultant following the chokehold death of Eric Garner and tasked with reviewing the department's use-of-force policy. He assumed the role of deputy commissioner of training Tuesday following the promotion of Benjamin Tucker to first deputy commissioner.