More than 300 police officers will surge into some of New York City’s higher crime neighborhoods Thursday night.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton touted the Summer All Out program on Wednesday as a means to drive down the city’s rising rate of murders and shootings.
There were 143 murders in the city through June 7, up from 121 during the same period last year.
But officials stress that they are concentrated in just a few neighborhoods.
The NYPD will move 330 officers from desk jobs to 10 precincts and 4 public housing sectors to focus on crime there.
The same tactic a year ago quelled a pre-summer rise in shootings.
The rise in violence has generated overheated tabloid headlines and a political predicament for de Blasio.
(AP)
Murders won’t go down if the police don’t do anything!