Yang Anzai’s call for new police officers to live in New York City drew backlash from police unions.
New York City police should require new hires to live in New York City, preferably in the precinct where they work, in order to fight crime more deeply in the community.
In an interview with New York Public Radio (WNYC) on the same day, Anze Young said, “Police officers are part of the community, even when they join the police force. He added, “I believe this will fundamentally change the conflict between the police and the public that currently exists, because you will no longer see strangers as potential criminals, but as neighbors.
He said that new police officers should be required to live in the city and, more preferably, in the neighborhoods they actually supervise, as this would allow them to better understand the community.
However, the ‘residency exemption’ for police officers is already written into Part III of the state’s Public Officers Law, which includes an exemption for officers who live in counties within 30 miles of New York.
According to the NYPD website, eligible candidates for city police must be U.S. citizens, hold a valid New York State driver’s license, and reside in one of the five boroughs or in Long Island’s Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, Westchester, Orange or Putnam counties ( Putnam).
Patrick Lynch, president of the New York City Police Benevolent Association (PBA), said that changes to the residency requirements for police officers cannot be discussed without discussing pay. The PBA’s president, Patrick Lynch, said that changing the residency requirements for police officers cannot be discussed without discussing salaries, “They simply cannot afford the high cost of living in the city right now at below-market salaries, and that would discourage recruitment efforts by city police, not improve them.
Paul DiGiacomo, president of the New York City Detectives Endowment Association, said Anze’s idea is actually another way to reduce the number of city police officers, an anti-police move in disguise, “but it often hurts the most the people who need us the most. New Yorkers.
And Anze Yang’s supporters ignored the criticism, saying his name recognition and his donor base in the 2020 race would give him a dominant position in the June primary.
Yang’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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