In honor of National Coming Out Day, New York lawmakers and the NYPD announced a plan to protect transgender youth.
The NYPD on Tuesday, launched new technology that officers can use on the street to expand its support of LGBTQAI+ New Yorkers.
"It will become an invaluable tool for providing crime victim assistance and facilitating community outreach and neighborhood policing," NYPD Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said. The new app was installed Tuesday on the smartphones of the nearly 35,000 officers in the department."If someone is looking for legal, medical shelter, mental health or a host of vital services they can now turn to any NYPD officer for assistance," Sewell said.
"Now NYPD officers will have that critical info at their fingertips and will be able to share it with the people we serve," Sewell said.
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