NEW YORK, June 16 — America’s largest police force, the NYPD, is to disband its plain-clothes anti-crime unit, its commissioner said yesterday, as calls for police reform spread across the United States following anti-racism protests. New York Police Department Commissioner Dermot Shea...
NYPD police officers watch demonstrators in Times Square on June 1, 2020, during a ‘Black Lives Matter’ protest. — AFP pic
New York Police Department Commissioner Dermot Shea said the team’s 600 officers would be reassigned to other roles including detective work and neighborhood policing. The unit was focused on targeting violent crime and had been involved in some of New York City’s most notorious police shootings, according to the“I think it’s time to move forward and change how we police in this city. We can do it with brains we can do it with guile, we can move away from brute force,” Shea added.
Officers in the NYPD were filmed baton charging and confining demonstrators who had defied night-time curfews.
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