But narcotics arrests fell by 4.4 percent to 50,266.
In 1989, police in New York City made 94,490 narcotics arrests.
Referring to the building, he said: "There have been narcotics arrests there.
Mr. Bratton reversed that policy, and narcotics arrests increased 27.5 percent last year.
He was not assigned to narcotics arrests or investigations, the police said.
There was a numbers game, trying to make narcotics arrests for promotion.
They said many narcotics arrests had been made there.
He had originally met Parker when the detective was being honored for having the most narcotics arrests in Manhattan.
I'm beginning to see how you got all those narcotics arrests.
Last year, the police made more than 90,000 narcotics arrests in New York City.