NYPD Will Disband Its Citywide Plainclothes Anti-Crime Teams
- Police commissioner Shea acts after a 25% spike in murders
- Unit’s officers had disproportionate number of complaints
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New York City, facing a spike in shootings and murders, will disband its precinct anti-crime teams, deploying about 600 mostly plainclothes officers to its detective, intelligence and counterterrorism bureaus.
Police Commissioner Dermot Shea described the move as “closing one of the last chapters” in reforms begun with reduced stop-and-frisk street tactics six years ago.