So now even the NYPD is complicit in caving to the radical left. 600+ plainclothes spread out at precincts and PSAs across the city, will be reassigned into other posts, including the detective bureau and neighborhood police. What could possibly go wrong? The excuse for eliminating this plainclothes unit? Because of a ‘disproportionate’ number of shootings. Any respect I had for the NYPD has gone right out the window, catering to communist radicals like De Blasio.
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The New York Police Department announced on Monday that it is disbanding its anti-crime unit, which is a group of 600 officers who wear plainclothes to blend into the community in an effort to fight crime.
“The NYPD is disbanding its undercover anti-crime unit — after being involved in a ‘disproportionate’ number of shootings,” The New York Post reported. “The roughly 600 cops, spread out at precincts and PSAs across the city, will be reassigned into other posts, including the detective bureau and neighborhood police, the city’s top cop said.”
“This is 21st-century policing: intelligence, data, ShotSpotter, video, DNA, and building prosecutable cases,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said. “It continues to be building these cases—cases on a small number of people that unfortunately still terrorize a part of this city. I would consider this in the realm of closing on one of the last chapters on stop, question and frisk.”
“When you look at the number of anti-crime officers that operate within New York City, and you look at a disproportionate, quite frankly, percentage of complaints and shootings — and they are doing exactly what was asked of them,” Shea said. “It will be felt immediately throughout the five district attorney’s offices, it will be felt immediately in the communities that we protect.”
Shea added, “This is a policy shift coming from me, personally, in men and women in the police department we’re doing what I asked before me asked, they have done an exceptional job, but again I think it’s time to move forward and change how we police in this city.”