CIVIC CENTER — More than 300 officers will be reassigned from desk jobs this summer to help patrol some of the city's highest-crime areas, the NYPD announced Monday.
The department will move 313 officers into 10 precincts and five public housing command centers with the highest volume of shootings as part of its "Summer All Out" program, officials said.
“The result is to have an impact on street conditions, specifically shootings,” NYPD Chief of Department Philip Banks said during a press conference at NYPD headquarters Monday. “And the residents of New York City will see more police officers on the street, visible during the summer months.”
In addition to the reassigned officers, there will be about 25 to 30 extra impact officers deployed citywide each day over the summer, Banks added.
There will also be 600 officers from the NYPD’s most recent graduating class moved into higher crime precincts, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said during the press conference.
“So there will be a net increase of well over 1,000 additional officers going into higher-crime areas during the remainder of the summer months,” he said.
Some of the areas gaining extra officers include the 47th Precinct in the Wakefield section of The Bronx and 69th Precinct in Canarsie, Brooklyn.
Both will get about 40 additional officers because of their large geographic areas, with the remaining precincts — including the 42nd, 43rd and 77th precincts — gaining between 15 and 20 more officers.
Overall, shootings are up so far this year compared to last — 562 versus 514 — but murders are down from 169 this time last year to 153 currently, according to the NYPD.
