Brooklyn borough president says NYPD has become predictable since scrapping plainclothes unit
Read full article here: https://readnews.io/anfg7y Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams toldOutnumbered Overtime Friday that the NYPDs decision to disband its plainclothes anti-crime unit has made law enforcement in the city "predictable. ""Policing operates off of two mechansims," said Adams, a former NYPD officer and the most prominent Black politician in New York City. "One is the omnipresence of blue and white vehicles, and the other is the element of uncertainty, that bad guys cant believe that policing is a predictable model. Not having plainclothes, in my belief, on the precinct level, where you can have good supervision . . . means youre taking away the element of surprise. Policing cannot be predictable and right now it is predictable for those bad guys that carry guns. EX-NYPD LIEUTENANT RIPS DE BLASIO AS EMPTY SUIT MAYOR AS VIOLENT CRIME SURGESThe plainclothes unit was disbanded last month, with roughly 600 officers reassigned to other team, amid criticism of the NYPDs response to protests following the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. "Trust is critical to effective policing, NYPD Commisioner Dermot Shea said at the time. Trust takes a long time to earn, and it is very easy to lose. We will continue to work relentlessly to earn and keep that trust, because without community partnership, we cannot effectively do our jobs. CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APPWhat I would like to see, and call for, is the civilian-ization of those inside assignments," said Adams, who some observers consider a contender in the 2021 New York mayoral election. "I believe you can drop the headcount of policing, which is 90 percent of the budget, without dropping the patrol strength. If you take those officers out of barrier details, if you take them out of telephone switchboard operators, out of all of those clerical assignments, you can maintain your patrol strength," Adams explained. "We need to really introduce technology into policing.
