Crime Drops Since NYPD Takeover of School Security
Crime has dropped in the New York City public schools since the New York Police Department took over security for the board of education, according to police statistics.
In the 15 months since the NYPD began managing the system's 3,300 school security officers, few of the concerns registered about the changeover appear to have materialized.
Two of the most vocal groups that had been worried about the arrangement—the New York Civil Liberties Union and the New York state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People—have been mostly silent and say they have done little...
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