Officers will wear modified uniforms, not plain clothes, in the unit, which in its previous form was involved in a disproportionate number of fatal shootings.
Previous iterations of the unit in New York City were disbanded in 2020 over concerns they accounted for a disproportionate number of shootings and complaints.
Mayor Eric Adams wants to recreate the department’s plainclothes anti-crime unit, which recovered illegal guns but was responsible for a number of fatal shootings.