NYPD to Stop Sending Rookies to High-Crime Areas (military, program, 2014)

[All American NYC]

“I want to change the dynamic of kids coming out of the academy and immediately being put into Operation Impact assignments, where they really have an almost single-minded focus and really don’t get a full flavor of the job,” he said, according to a recording of the meeting reviewed by The New York Times...After more than 11 years, an average patrol officer is likely to have gotten his or her start through this feet-to-the-fire approach. But the program has also been criticized for contributing to the huge increase in the number of recorded stop-and-frisk encounters of mostly minority men in those same neighborhoods.

Guess the Robocop project will have to wait.

[urbanlife78]

That is probably a good thing to change that program, the police in New York act like they are some sort of military, if Ray Kelly was still in charge I would imagine him running a coup against de Blasio to take control of the city.