By Rocco Parascandola and Ryan Sit
Assaults on police officers have sharply increased as cops devote more
focus to violent offenders — though overall across the city crime
continues to drop.
Rather than continue to exercise the stop-and-frisk tactic — deemed
unconstitutional for its abuse and wild inefficiency — police have
instead chosen to focus more time and resources to targeting violent
criminals.
Possibly feeling that squeeze, goons have increasingly been lashing out at police, officials said on Monday.
"As we ... focus on drivers of violence and other crimes in New York
City, as the gun arrests go up, we're seeing our assaults on police
officers … up significantly," said NYPD Deputy of Operations Dermot
Shea.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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