individualized approach to each case. precision policing and prosecution and the case of the criminal few. those who commit serious violent crimes must be arrested and prosecuted. and on the other hand, what d.a. is referring to that many crimes are driven by mental health and addiction. and in those low level crime cases like here in staten island, we are for what we call diversion or alternatives to incarceration, chance to get help for addiction. a chance to get help for mental health but do it within the confines of the criminal justice system and not just say the crime doesn t exist and therefore it s going to go away. steve: right. i should explain to people, new york city is composed of five boroughs. manhattan, where he is the d.a., is one borough. staten island where you are the d.a. is another borough. it s kind of confusing for people who live in the new york city area so that guy is no longer going to prosecute marijuana misdemeanors. resisting arrest.
i believe we can do better. here s my plan. number one, put in place a pl plain-clothed antigun unit. we ll do precision policing on dangerous gangs, and thoughts who use guns, but we re also going to coordinate an effort that s started already after communicating with president biden, our federal, state, city, atf, prosecutors, we need to come together similar to what we did after the terrorist attack. we have to do it to stop terrorism of gun usage in our city. we believe we can stop and prevent crimes by investing in those on the ground units that are doing amazing things to prevent criminal behavior. that is how you start to turn around the crimes that we re seeing in our city. you re totally opposed to
killed in los angeles. the highest since 2007. new york city reached nearly 500 murders for the first time in a decade. the newly sworn in mayor says he s taking steps to prevent that from happening again this year. our intervention is immediately having a plain clothes anti-gun unit to do precision policing, going after gangs, targeting them, stopping the flow of guns in our city. most expert as agree the pandemic played a role in creating this surge. and as the pandemic continues, there s no quick-fix solution to addressing these root causes that have led to these heart-breaking statistics that we re seeing. martha: thanks, garrett. let s bring in theo hardaway.
those anti-crimes officers, plain-clothed officers who will be going to neighborhoods where the most crime in the city is happening. listen to how he talked about that unit that will be coming to the streets in the next couple of weeks. i know how fear and abusive that unit was. we are going to reinstitute an anti-gun unit where police officers will have a modified version of police uniform apparel. they are going to be better trained. with gehring to use technologies with cameras to video every interaction and i am going to make sure the right officers are assigned there, precision policing, to go after those who are dangerous gangs and carrying guns in my city. reporter: so the mayor making it clear that this unit is going to be different under his administration in hopes to bring the crime down here in new york city. also taking the time though to say this isn t just an nypd problem. again, wolf, we talked about this, that also he is calling on
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