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As New York City and the nation grapple with troubling increases in violent crime, including a 27% increase in murders in 2020 and a doubling in shootings in the five boroughs between 2019 and 2021, Mayor Adams and President Biden came together on Thursday to pledge a series of steps aimed at reversing the trend.
Growing Concerns Over City Jails Handling Of The Pandemic’s Second Wave
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With New York City’s COVID-19 positivity rate now at more than 9 percent, there are growing concerns about how to protect those incarcerated in city jails and the staffers who work among them.
On Tuesday, the city’s Correctional Health Services reported there were 48 patients with active infections out of a total of just over 5,000 detainees. More than a hundred staffers have been infected since late November. These numbers are nowhere near last spring’s surge, when hundreds of inmates and more than 1,400 staffers were sickened; about a dozen people from both groups, combined, died of COVID-19.