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(New York City, NY) – The NYPD will be doing a citywide expansion of a crackdown on quality of life crimes. Mayor Eric Adams says a two month pilot program involving a new Quality of Life Division in a handful of precincts has resulted in 61-hundred summons and 357 arrests.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch identified some quality of life incidents as abandoned vehicles, discarded syringes, noise, a tent pitched outside of a building, or scooters and e-bikes speeding down streets.
Police say the pilot program which involves quality of life police teams will now be expanded to form a unit at every precinct and public housing command starting in mid-July.
