The new unarmed, five-person “Ambassador Program” is charged with monitoring the busy shopping area along Fordham Road.
to police Fordham Road, while also ordering his own police force to “arrest” and “prosecute” suspects.
“We see the front page of the New York Post here this morning — I’ll hang it up — talking about how there are some here in the Bronx shopkeepers that there’s a sense of feeling the police aren’t doing enough, that they’re fed up with NYC crime,” reporter Jonathan Lemire began, showing Adams“Shop owners are hiring private guards to fight back. Is that a wise strategy? What more can be done here?” asked Lemire.
The new group is charged with patrolling the busy shopping area along Fordham Road from Jerome Avenue to Washington Avenue Wednesday through Saturday.“People must feel safe and we must make sure that businesses are safe in the city and that’s what the NYPD is doing. But we have a real problem with recidivism in the city,” added the mayor.
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