Mayor Eric Adams revealed Monday that the first group of officers in the NYPD’s hybrid plainclothes police squad will hit the streets “within the next week or so” — after he repeatedly refused to confirm a start date for a key pillar of his crime-fighting plan.
During an appearance on Fox 5, Adams stressed the importance of sufficient training for the cops in the “Neighborhood Safety Teams” — created to combat soaring gun violence — so they don’t repeat past mistakes.
“We have to get this right. If you expeditiously have people in specialized units hit the streets without a very thorough well-organized training, you’re really going to exaggerate the problem, and I’m not going
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