Teenagers Become Targets in NYC’s Latest Gun Violence Spike
Three 16-year-old victims were killed in shootings last week, the same number of teenagers killed in all of 2019, according to NYPD figures. By Myles Miller and Adam Harding • Published October 3, 2021 • Updated on October 3, 2021 at 6:58 pm New York City’s progress against gun violence is facing a major setback as a new and troubling trend emerges in the wake […]
NY Post: School safety agents seize 3 guns from students at NYC schools
By Selim Algar Three guns were confiscated from city students inside high school buildings in a matter of hours Wednesday — two in the Bronx and one in Brooklyn, sources told The Post. An 18-year-old student refused to pass through a metal detector at the Mott Haven Educational Campus in the Bronx where scanners are installed […]
Rally to Keep School Safety Agents In Schools And Protect Our Children
Sunday, April 11, at 2:00pm, at City Hall Park School Safety Matters! School Lives Matter! Parents and Community Leaders Stand With School Safety Agents “We will not allow politicians to jeopardize the safety of our children!” We reject and condemn the recent attacks on School Safety Agents and we will not allow politicians to jeopardize […]
No Justice Suitable If Loss Isn’t Restorable
“People keep saying School Safety Agents are a presence of police,” Eric Adams said, referring to the push by the Urban Youth Collaborative to get rid of School Safety Agents to ensure that there are no law-enforcement officers in city public schools, rather than merely shifting them from Police Department control to Department of Education […]
Feud between school safety agent union chief and Jumaane Williams escalates
The gloves have come off in the feud between Jumaane Williams and the head of the school safety agents union. Union chief Greg Floyd — who is furious that Williams has accused his members of abusing students and is trying to boot them from schools — brought up Williams’ arrest record Wednesday. “Jumaane Williams is […]
NY City Council is pushing for a school-safety disaster
Some on the City Council aren’t satisfied with Mayor de Blasio’s vow to shift the school-security budget from the NYPD to the Department of Education: They want to pull the safety agents out of schools altogether. At a recent hearing, a furious Councilman Daneek Miller (D-Queens) rightly called the idea “absurd.” But Education Committee Chairman Mark […]
Teamsters Local 237 President Opposes Plan to Transfer Oversight of School Safety Agents to DOE
In the wake of last year’s protests for police reform, Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to move oversight of school safety agents from the NYPD to the Education Department. The City Council has recently been holding hearings over police reform and is considering the proposal. But critics of the plan say it would put both […]
City Council debates giving NYC DOE control over school safety
The City Council held a heated hearing Thursday over the future of school safety agents — with one councilman calling the proposed removal of NYPD safety agents “absurd.” Council member Daneek Miller — a father of five city public school graduates who represents southeast Queens — defended their role Thursday. “To think that we’re going […]
SI Live: NYPD’s ‘My School Has Rhythm Not Violence’ program comes to Staten Island
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The NYPD’s School Safety Division Community Outreach Unit is bringing a special high school initiative to the borough, which uses music, dance, and education to empower students by helping them reduce verbal and physical violence in schools. The “My School Has Rhythm Not Violence” program, which has been going on citywide […]