Organizers know people will want to be out in full force after two years of restrictions, but police will also be out in full force to ensure everyone is safe.
Despite no organized J'Ouvert, the early morning celebration which typically kicks off the festivities, in 2021 and a mostly virtual West Indian Day Parade with a scaled down in person component, some revelers could not contain their Caribbean pride to their homes and turned out anyway.
The NYPD said it is committed to ensuring this year's celebrations are safe and enjoyable for everyone involved. The security precautions are similar to large events like Times Square on New Year's Eve, and virtually identical to the last full size J'Ouvert and West Indian Day Parade in 2019. "We know historically the problems that we've had at these events, and it had nothing to do with the people who came out to celebrate their heritage and culture, and the people who came out to have a good time," Maddrey said. "It was a relatively small few, a few bad actors, who came out here to senselessly engage in violence, sometimes just for the sake of doing it."
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