The NYPD plans to finally get tough on organizers of the annual predawn J’Ouvert celebration, which has been operating without a permit and routinely ends in bloodshed.
“Going forward, we are going to make a point of working with the local politicians and local organizers in the area to make sure . . . that the event is appropriately policed and that the organizers take the proper measures in running this event,” said department spokesman Stephen Davis.
“We’re going to re-evaluate how we police the event in order to ensure the safety of everyone involved.”
During Monday’s festivities, an aide to Gov. Cuomo got caught in the crossfire during a gang shootout and remains in critical condition at a Brooklyn hospital.
On Tuesday, top cop Bill Bratton admitted that J’Ouvert “has been and continues to be probably the most problematic event in the city.”
“It has been a festival that has had more than its share of violence for many, many years . . . That’s the reality,” Bratton said.













Davis told The Post that the J’Ouvert organizers have “never applied for a permit” to stage the event.
The city’s Administrative Code says public processions like J’Ouvert can be conducted “only after a written permit therefor has been obtained from the police commissioner.”
But the code also requires that the city’s top cop investigate all applications, and reject any if there’s “good reason to believe” an event “will be disorderly in character or tend to disturb the public peace.”
Hundreds of cops were deployed to oversee J’Ouvert on Monday, closing streets with barricades and installing portable light towers.
A former official with the nonprofit that organizes the event, J’Ouvert City International, said, “I was under the assumption that everything under the J’Ouvert umbrella was completely authorized.”



