The NYPD has nixed two key enforcement units and reassigned their officers to work on gun violence prevention, The Post has learned.
Police brass officially pulled the plug on the Traffic Congestion Mitigation unit at 1 a.m. Friday with the transfer of the unit’s 114 members.
The unit, which conducted a majority of NYPD’s enforcement on moving vehicles before its dissolution, was disbanded because it was “redundant,” an NYPD spokesperson said. Traffic enforcement agents who write parking tickets were not impacted.
Police brass also nixed NYPD’s roughly 85-person homeless outreach unit after the City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio decided to take the responsibility away from cops entirely.
The approximately 200 cops have been reassigned to other precincts.
Well, that is 200 extra officers in a time that the budget and the slow of the economic activities decreased dramatically. Some reduction in budget is in order.
Well, that is 200 extra officers in a time that the budget and the slow of the economic activities decreased dramatically. Some reduction in budget is in order.
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