'You’re taught how to de-escalate someone else that is in crisis stage, but you’re not really trained on how to de-escalate yourself and your partner when they’re in that same crisis mode,' says BPEricAdams
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. Photo: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president who’s thinking about running for mayor next year, spent 22 years in the NYPD before going into politics, retiring as a captain in 2006. During that time, he founded an activist group, 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement, that advocated reform from within the department.
I was in several locations, but I was on Flatbush Avenue down by Applebee’s, and then I walked with the crowd up to the Barclays Center and saw the destruction of various locations on the way, particularly at the TD Bank — the windows were destroyed — and at Whole Foods the windows were knocked out, and the Apple Store was vandalized, as well.Well, as the group was walking, they were destroying property, so I saw the destruction at the iPhone store — the one at TD Bank had already happened.
And believe it or not, that is what’s wrong right now with policing. In the police department, they have this term, “mobilization”: level one, two, or three. Depending on the level, everyone knows how to respond — if it’s a level one, it’s a local task force, level two is boroughwide, three is larger. When we make those mobilization calls, we do not take into account the character, or the ability, of the officers that are responding.
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