How can NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio heal rift with police?

What can Mayor Bill de Blasio do to heal his deepening rift with the New York Police Department? His playbook for erasing the perception that he is not supporting the police — a problem that has escalated in the wake of the killings of two officers — has included face-to-face-meetings with police union officials, warm rhetoric about the work cops do and stepped-up efforts to negotiate new police labor contracts.

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