The move comes as many U.S. cities are redirecting police department funds and pursuing other reforms.
New York City’s police department will transition the roughly 600 plainclothes officers that make up its “anti-crime” units into other roles, amid protests nationwide calling for an end to racist police brutality.Monday, NYPD commissioner Dermot Shea said “meaningful reform starts from within.” The anti-crime officers – whose units responded to violent crime — have represented a “disproportionate percentage” of complaints from civilians and officer-involved shootings, Shea said.
The NYPD did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request to clarify exactly what proportion of police shootings involved these units. The hundreds of officers in question will be moved into neighborhood policing, detective bureaus and other assignments, Shea said. He said the police’s job of responding to violent crime can be done with “21st century policing,” using data, intelligence, video and other methods to build their cases.
“Make no mistake, this is a seismic shift in the culture of how the NYPD polices this great city,” Shea said, describing this “big move” as “in the realm of closing one of the last chapters” of the city’s notorious“It is lost on no one, certainly not people that live in the neighborhoods we serve, that endure being stopped… we can do it better. And we will,” Shea added.
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