WITH THE WAY THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING NYPD MAKES NEW RECRUITS TAKE 4 DAYS OF MULTICULTURAL TRAINING @ THE APOLLO THEATER!

Any day the Rev. Al Sharpton can walk out of a room full of cops without getting handcuffed is a good one, he quipped after talking to the NYPD's newest recruits on Thursday.

Sharpton was one of half a dozen police critics asked to speak to the latest class of 262 new officers, due to graduate and hit the streets July 2.

"To me, it's always successful to be in a room full of police and not leave with my hands in cuffs," Sharpton said after meeting the class at Harlem's historic Apollo Theater.

The four days of multicultural training - started after the death of an unarmed black man in Queens, Sean Bell - were designed to give recruits more exposure to the racially diverse city and a frank assessment about relations between those communities and the cops.

While holding police accountable for improving interactions with minorities, Sharpton said black and Latino communities had to acknowledge endorsing a "Wild, Wild West culture" that glamorized crime.

"We have to get the thuggery out of the community," Sharpton said.