Mayor Eric Adams called for an “immediate redeployment” department-wide of cops on desk duty Thursday as the NYPD tries to stem the Big Apple’s soaring gun violence.
The mayor vowed swift action when asked for a timeframe, saying the summer months — when shootings have historically peaked — would be waiting too long, while acknowledging the redeployment effort is on the shoulders of the city’s top cop, who was in the process of evaluating how to replace those officers with non-uniformed employees.
“I am not going to accept June, as you know, traditionally, when crime is the highest and we are not going to accept that
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