How a fatal shooting changed the direction of New York City policing in less than a week
CNN
A domestic disturbance call in Harlem on Friday that resulted in shots fired -- leaving a police officer and the gunman dead and another officer in critical condition -- has dramatically changed the tenor of policing in New York City over the course of just a few days.
Now, as officials enact plans to stem violent crime and illegal gun ownership, the city is preparing for the return of plainclothes units that had been disbanded nearly two years earlier.
Mayor Eric Adams, a former New York Police Department captain who began his term less than four weeks ago, touted his law and order experience during the election campaign. Now, lawlessness has become his biggest immediate challenge following a spate of high-profile attacks on residents and police alike.
President Joe Biden asserted Friday that Hamas has been degraded to a point where it can no longer carry out the type of attack that launched the current 8-month conflict in Gaza, laying out a three-phase proposal Israel has submitted to wind down the grinding crisis as he declared, “It’s time for this war to end.