One officer, while seated in a marked police van on Saturday night, was hit in the face and neck.
The shootings occurred just days after anti-police protesters paralyzed parts of New York's subway system while chanting obscenities about the police.
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea and police union leaders, who cited the protests as a potential factor in the attacks, aren't the only ones linking assaults to anti-police sentiment.
The incidents in the Bronx illustrate what seems to be a trend of violence directed at police by habitual criminals.
Late last year, a teenager convicted of second-degree murder for his role in the death of a retired police sergeant in Missouri was sentenced to juvenile detention.
Coupled with the growing antagonism toward police, these exacerbations of the risks inherent in policing at least partly explain why law-enforcement departments are struggling to fill vacancies.
Anti-police activists may cheer, but a policing shortage won't bode well for those living in America's most vulnerable communities, or those left to police them-the primary victims of the system's failure to incapacitate dangerous offenders.
https://www.city-journal.org/shootings-of-nypd-officers
The shootings occurred just days after anti-police protesters paralyzed parts of New York's subway system while chanting obscenities about the police.
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea and police union leaders, who cited the protests as a potential factor in the attacks, aren't the only ones linking assaults to anti-police sentiment.
The incidents in the Bronx illustrate what seems to be a trend of violence directed at police by habitual criminals.
Late last year, a teenager convicted of second-degree murder for his role in the death of a retired police sergeant in Missouri was sentenced to juvenile detention.
Coupled with the growing antagonism toward police, these exacerbations of the risks inherent in policing at least partly explain why law-enforcement departments are struggling to fill vacancies.
Anti-police activists may cheer, but a policing shortage won't bode well for those living in America's most vulnerable communities, or those left to police them-the primary victims of the system's failure to incapacitate dangerous offenders.
https://www.city-journal.org/shootings-of-nypd-officers
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