The initiative will deploy NYPD officers across boroughs and bureaus that will work in tandem to rapidly identify and respond to crime trends and to address the conditions that fuel them.
Frank Abrokwa is being held after a judge set bail at $5,000 for charges stemming from a violent incident at a storage facility in Harlem.
"Let's be clear: this plan reinstates broken-windows policing, and it will undoubtedly send more Black and Latinx New Yorkers to Rikers Island, a facility that is wholly incapable of caring for the people in its custody," said Jennvine Wong, staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society's Cop Accountability Project.
Sewell said the enforcement initiative is community-driven and is a direct response to the victims of violent crime. The NYPD outlined what it calls community complaints that can be precursors to violence, including: the open-air selling of narcotics, including marijuana; public drinking; public urination; dice games that lead to disputes and shootings; and the dangers of unlicensed, unregistered, or uninsured drivers operating on the most crowded city streets in the nation.
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