Happening today: Oversight hearing on Mayor Adam's blueprint to combat gun violence, including Neighborhood Safety Teams. JohnBDias reports
. These units put unmarked cars with police lights and 200 officers in less official looking uniforms on the streets of 30 precincts, where police say 80% of gun violence occurs. Each team gets a sergeant and five officers.
"It's about a form of deterrence. So if the bad guys that are carrying guns believe that they could be stopped, they might stop carrying guns," said Joseph Giacalone, a retiredGiacalone told CBS2 the new teams are necessary to prevent crime from getting worse. But everyone should know beforehand that officers are obligated to explain why someone is being stopped.
"We're not searching for drugs, or any other contraband. It's really about a weapon that can harm the officer or anyone else around there," he said. "When there are so many variables in police encounters with civilians, we shouldn't be increasing unnecessary encounters between them, we should be decreasing them," attorney Jennvine Wong said.
Wong said you have the right to get video, photographs and sound, and officers do not have the right to go into your phone without a warrant. What are the"Am I free to leave, am I being arrested, and I want to talk to my lawyer," she said."Regardless of whether you think the arrest is justified or not, the safest thing to do is to submit to the arrest and fight it later," said Wong.
She also said when an officer asks for your name, you should give it to them, but you are not required to show ID.
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