Scheduled to begin next month, the switch takes power away from the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, an agency that greatly expanded under the de Blasio administration.
During the last eight years, the NYPD has framed the city’s violence problems as increasingly “gang related.” They have doubled the size of the gang unit, engaged in widespread social media surveillance of young people, and undertaken large-scale “gang takedowns” relying on questionable claims of wide-ranging criminal conspiracies.
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