A rash of shootings in the city has tensions running high with the mayor looking to make changes in the police force, more aggressively get guns off the streets, get bail and criminal justice reforms fixed, possibly revive a controversial anti-crime unit and force city cops to live in the city. Escalating crime has struck the Hudson Valley as well. On Tuesday, in New Rochelle, a 17-year-old was shot and killed, allegedly at the hands of a 16-year-old suspect who was in custody after a shooting in New Rochelle. Whatever the reasons are that people are using guns more often and killing more police and civilians, Rockland County Sheriff Lou Falco says, the blame-games and finger-pointing have got to stop…
Many issues have over the last few years led to recruitment issues for city police departments. Over in Orangetown supervisor Teresa Kenny says her department has no problem recruiting, but she feels diversity is more of an issue…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul, in her state budget address earlier this month, said New Yorkers deserve to feel safe…
Hochul yesterday led the first meeting of the Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns, a multi-state group designed to share intelligence, tools, tactics, and strategies to combat gun violence, and gun trafficking. Rockland police departments have worked with the state attorney general and other police agencies to get guns off the streets. Sheriff Falco says any gun turned in, is a gun that can’t ever be used to kill anyone ever again.