John Langdon
Cassandra Agredo has grown the soup kitchen at St. Francis Xavier church into the multi-service agency that is Xavier Mission. As the organization’s executive director, Agredo and her team provide an array of services and opportunities to New Yorkers in need. They prefer to be called a “for-impact” instead of a “nonprofit” organization, focusing on things they can change instead of those they can’t.
Direct service work has always been a part of Agredo’s life. When she was growing up in Rhode Island, her father worked at the Department of Human Services, and once the first soup kitchen opened, her parents would bring Agredo along while they volunteered. She continued on this path and obtained a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work from Fordham University. Since then, her passion to enact positive change has shone both through her work at Xavier Mission and Hunger Free America, a national organization set to end domestic hunger, where she’s a
Dita Alangkara
Saturday, the New York Post took a close look at the pace of retirements and departures from the ranks of the New York Police Department, less than a year after the move to “Defund the Police” found traction in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.
More than 5,300 NYPD uniformed officers retired or put in their papers to leave in 2020 a 75 percent spike from the year before, department data show.
The exodus amid the pandemic, anti-cop hostility, riots and a skyrocketing number of NYC shootings saw 2,600 officers say goodbye to the job and another 2,746 file for retirement, a combined 5,346.
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Published April 25. 2021 11:24PM | Updated April 25. 2021 11:26PM
Wes Parnell, New York Daily News
Fifteen people were shot in New York City Saturday, compared to just one person on the same day a year ago, police said.
And the city has seen 395 people shot so far this year through Saturday compared to 238 people shot by the same time last year, police said.
The startling numbers show that shootings have not slowed down as COVID-19 restrictions loosen across the city.
Eugene O’Donnell, a former NYPD cop who is now a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said the gunplay has less to do with the pandemic and more to do with changes in criminal justice policy.