The New York police Department to solve a unit to fight crime with 600 civilian police, which was said to have often violence in use. “This is a big step,” said police Commissioner Dermot Shea. The decision is comparable with the abolition of the reason is due to the request (“Stop and Frisk”), the most frequently Black were brutally interrogated.
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The affected police officers were often on the streets of the metropolis undercover activists said they often aggressive behavior against minorities.
Critics of the reforms do not go far enough
After the violent death of several Black police officers protested in the past few weeks in the United States, hundreds of thousands of people. They call for an end of Racism and police violence, many of them chanting the Slogan of “Defund The Police”, which in English means roughly “Eludes the police the money”.
The state of New York has responded with several new laws on the demonstrations. Many critics go Reforms do not go far enoughwhat, for example, the bars and documents to the disciplinary procedure more easily accessible to the public should be prohibited.
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Shea explained that the step was not as a reaction to the protests. For the new tasks would be found, for example, as an investigator and on neighborhood patrol. Overall, work in New York approximately 36,000 patrol officers and 19,000 people in the administration of the police.
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