The New York police announced Saturday that it will strengthen its presence in the city’s schools in the wake of a recent spate of shootings and other acts of violence near schools, the New York Police Department (NYPD) said.
This move comes following two teenagers and a security guard were shot outside a Brooklyn high school.. The school guard went to stop a street fight between a large group of youths when he was grazed by a bullet in the neck.
Jeff Maddrey, the head of the department, ordered all NYPD commanders to increase their Youth Coordination Officer (YCO) units to six officers with a sergeant assigned to oversee each unit. The program initially consisted of 350 officers, now with this measure they will increase to 462, reported the New York Post.
Maddrey also ordered Traffic Chief Michael Kemper to “make sure Transit District School Safety Teams are deploying strategically.”
increase in violence
last february 5 Nearly 350 incidents of serious crime were reported in New York City (NYC) schools last year, with 95 in the last four months alone, according to new data released by the New York City Council.
In addition, the NYPD reported in the report that since the return to face-to-face in schoolsassaults and sexual crimes increased and the recoveries of weapons in schools increased by 80%.
Only in the last two months there have been four cases of violence involving minors. Last February 2 A 16-year-old boy was seriously stabbed in the stomach near a school in the Bronx in an apparent dispute with another boy over a girl.
