New York City (Reuters) – The New York Police Department is disbanding its aggressive anti-crime system, a move aimed at turning pushed away homeowners into crime-stopping allies, part of a nationwide push for policing reforms following the killing of George Floyd.
FILE PHOTO: New York City Authorities Department (NYPD) officers are envisioned as protesters rally versus the death in Minneapolis cops custody of George Floyd, in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., June 1,2020 REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo
In a significant redeployment, the country’s largest police force will reassign some 600 plainclothes officers in the anti-crime system, the target of various complaints, to other responsibilities, effective right away, Commissioner Dermot Shea stated on Monday.
” Make no error, this is a seismic shift in the culture of how the NYPD cops this gre