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#De Blasio still silent on plan to curb shootings as hot weekend looms

#De Blasio still silent on plan to curb shootings as hot weekend looms

July 8, 2020 | 12:49pm | Updated July 8, 2020 | 12:49pm

With another hot weekend looming, Mayor Bill de Blasio was again mum Wednesday on any detailed plan what the police have in the works to combat the weeks-long surge in gun violence — following a summer holiday marred by bloodshed.

“We’re dealing with an unprecedented reality,” de Blasio said, adding, “This is not business as usual and it’s all underlined by all the problems created by the pandemic, and the absence of the function court system.”

“But the NYPD continues to move resources where they’re needed and come up with new strategies… it’s different from past years because we’re dealing with a much greater challenge but we will be back.”

Over the last four weeks, shootings have nearly tripled in the Gotham with police reporting 223 incidents compared to 834 last year as of Sunday.  Victims of gun violence jumped to 304 from 100, the NYPD data shows.

While much of the attention has been focused in Harlem, working-class Bronx and Brooklyn neighborhoods have been plagued by an outbreak of violence, too.

Brownsville and Grand Concourse have each seen shootings spike to 17 over the last month — up from five and four, respectively last year — as Crown Heights recorded eight incidents of gun violence, compared to only one over the same time in 2019.

On Monday, the mayor pointed to the NYPD’s annual Summer All Out program, which has been in effect for weeks and shuffles officers around the city onto the streets, and noted that the city’s top cop met with state officials to lobby for courts to fully reopen, an issue police have pointed to as one of the factors in the uptick.

The department is also trying to get “buy-in from the community” to help curb the violence, the new NYPD’s Community Affairs Bureau said Tuesday.

But the city, however, hasn’t publicly offered much of a plan to stop the bloodshed — as officials rely on talking points with platitudes of community policing and targeted enforcement.

The mayor promised a plan in the coming days after the bloody holiday weekend.

“We’ll have more to say on that in the next few days, but a lot will be done preparing for this weekend to change the reality on the ground,” the mayor said Tuesday.

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