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The NYPD implemented a plan at the start of the year to try to stem the Big Apple’s soaring number of teen shootings, but the bloodshed continues.

After the two shootings at dismissal time outside the East Harlem schools earlier this month, the kids were given safe passage, but the topic of school safety continues to loom large for our children and families. At the Association to Benefit Children’s preschool on E. 126th St., our kids are safe. Teachers, therapists, and police officers work in tandem to protect the school.

New York City Council members will meet to discuss new police legislation at City Hall, aimed at increasing transparency.

Councilman Robert Holden invited NYPD brass to a public safety and quality of life town hall meeting at Maspeth High School on Thursday, March 23. 

NYC has a program called B-HEARD, where paramedics and social workers respond to mental health emergencies.

NEW YORK, NY - Police officers shot and critically injured a disturbed man who was reportedly having mental health crisis in the Bronx Sunday morning.

NYPD officers shot and critically injured a man who reportedly advanced toward them with a knife Sunday while he was having a mental health crisis, police said.

The officers who fired were reportedly responding to an aid call for a man in crisis armed with a knife, law enforcement officials said of the Bronx shooting.