>> my understanding is that the tensions are still there. i know a lot of police officers -- my father was a cop in the city. i was at the wake and funeral last week of officer ramos. the tensions between the police and the mayor are the worst i've ever seen in all the years i've been in new york. i'm a life-long new yorker, born and raised in new york city. many of my constituents work in new york city. i do a lot of work with the nypd as far as counterterrorism. police officers feel that mayor de blasio turned against them early on. with the garner case the way he tried to portray it as a racial matter. african-american chief african-american sergeant on the scene, african-american businessman. what went wrong or didn't go wrong has nothing to do with race. they felt mayor de blasio jumped in to make it a racial issue. you're talking about the best police department in the country. they just don't feel that mayor de blasio has their back.