Eric Garner summit

NYPD Commissioner William Bratton promises to get rid of wayward cops, report says. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Thursday he plans on getting rid of cops who abuse their authority or tarnish the department's reputation, according to a report by CBS New York.

"My intention going forward is to ensure that we will aggressively seek to get those out of the department who should not be here -- the brutal, the corrupt, the racist, the incompetent," Bratton said in the Daily News.

Bratton made the speech as a video montage of recent police incidents played in the background. The top cop was at a workshop for hundreds of NYPD commanders and supervisors in Queens, CBS reported.

Bratton said they have to face facts.

"The reality is that there are some in this organization who should not be here," Bratton said in the article. "They're not the right fit at the NYPD in 2014. There are a few -- and a very few in a very large organization -- who just don't get it. They don't understand that when they take that oath of office and put that shield on, that they commit to constitutional policing, respectful policing, compassionate policing."

The NYPD's image had taken a hit in recent months with a few high-profile incidents, including Eric Garner's chokehold death in police custody July 17 in Tompkinsville.

Plainclothes officer Daniel Pantaleo can be seen in a viral video placing Garner, a 43-year-old father of six from Port Richmond, in a chokehold while trying to arrest him for allegedly selling illegal cigarettes.

The NYPD also has been criticized over two recent incidents in Brooklyn. A video surfaced last week of a cop throwing a pregnant woman to the ground and another officer was caught kicking a fruit vendor while police were holding him down, the report said.

In light of the Garner incident, Bratton had ordered retraining of the entire department and initiated a pilot program for officers to wear body cameras.

"We need to collectively work together, our unions, union leadership ... to separate them," Bratton said of the bad cops in the Daily News. "We have to have a department that does not engage in excessive force, that does not engage in corruption."