The New York Police Department is disbanding its aggressive anti-crime unit.<br />The unit was originally aimed at turning alienated residents into crime-stopping allies.<br />A nationwide push for policing reforms followed the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.<br />In a major redeployment, the country’s largest police force will reassign some 600 plainclothes officers.<br />“Make no mistake, this is a seismic shift in the culture of how the NYPD polices this great city,” Commissioner Dermot Shea<br />They will focus on other duties, effective immediately, according to Reuters.
