Council Bob Holden (D-Queens) pressed Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez for information on the initiative in a letter Wednesday, just hours after the first package pick-up spot was opened in Brooklyn.
Standing alongside Adams and Sewell, NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael Lipetri cited some 400 sealed arrests of 10 New Yorkers, creating 'a frenzy of speculation around their identities,' the Bronx Defenders said.
Too often in New York today, serial offenders aren’t facing swift and sure consequences from prosecutors and the courts. A rough July in which crime kept increasing and alarming new data on rising recidivism rates released this week by the NYPD confirm that.