Shootings surge in NYC amid disbanding of NYPD’s plainclothes anti-crime unit
By Tina Moore, Larry Celona and Amanda Woods
June 19, 2020 | 7:04pm
Shootings are surging this week in New York City, with 28 incidents and 38 victims reported since Monday — the day the NYPD disbanded its plainclothes anti-crime unit, The Post learned on Friday.
By comparison, the same week last year there were only 12 shootings for the entire week.
In the most recent reported shooting, at 4 p.m. Friday in East New York, Brooklyn, a 27-year-old man died of multiple gunshot wounds to his torso, face and leg in front of 640 Stanley Avenue.
A 17-year-old boy who was also shot there was in stable condition, police said.
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