The NYPD’s new Neighborhood Safety Teams hit the streets Monday to combat rising gun violence in New York City.
The initiative will start with 25 commands patrolling the most dangerous neighborhoods in the city’s five boroughs, NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell told reporters Friday.
Kenneth Corey, NYPD Chief of Department, said the officers assigned to the neighborhood safety teams all received seven days of training in multiple areas.
“They are extensively trained in minimal force techniques. They receive advanced tactics, car stop, de-escalation is central to all of it,” Corey told reporters. “Communication skills is a big part of it, courtroom testimony training, and as the commissioner indicated, constitutional policing.”
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