“As you travel about the city of New York, please utilize your smartphones to photograph the homeless lying in our streets, aggressive panhandlers, people urinating in public or engaging in open-air drug activity, and quality-of-life offences of every type.”
Leaders of New York City’s Sergeants Benevolent Association emailed members Monday, requesting they use their smartphones to photograph the homeless to create “accountability across the board,” The union will then, “notify our public officials in writing of what is being observed,” union President Ed Mullins wrote in the e-mail.
City officials estimate there are about 75,000 homeless people in New York this year, up from about 67,000 the year before. According to Mullins the increase is a direct result of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s failed policies,leading to “more homeless encampments on city streets, a 10 percent increase in homicides, and the diminishing of our hard-earned and well-deserved public perception of the safest large city in America.”
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