NY Post: NYC mayor calls student weapons busts an ‘indictment’ of the city
By Bernadette Hogan and Selim Algar The troubling surge in student weapons busts is an “indictment” on the state of crime in the Big Apple, Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday in response to an exclusive Post report. Weapons seizures in schools are up by 80 percent this year, compared to pre-pandemic levels — including a marked rise in gun, knife […]
NY Post: NYC school weapons recoveries have skyrocketed by 80 percent this academic year
By Selim Algar It’s an arms race inside the nation’s largest school system. Student weapons busts have skyrocketed by 80 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to startling new NYPD data. From guns and knives to tasers and pepper spray, city kids are are packing a lot more than books this year. A Bedford-Stuyvesant teacher told The Post […]
FOX5 NY: NYC may cut number of school safety agents
Mayor Eric Adams’ budget proposal calls for reducing the number of school safety agents through attrition. That is not sitting well with some parents of schoolchildren.
CBS News: New York City Parents Sound Alarm Over School Safety Issues, But Say Their Concerns Are Being Ignored
By Lisa Rozner NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Some parents in Chelsea say the lack of safety in their schools is out of control. They claim even principals have asked the city for more school safety agents, but they told CBS2’s Lisa Rozner on Thursday their requests have been falling on deaf ears. A girl was recently repeatedly punched in the […]
NY Post: NYC principal sends kids home when only 2 school safety agents show up for work
By Selim Algar A Bronx principal sent her students home for remote learning Friday after only two school safety agents showed up to her massive complex, sources told The Post. The Kennedy High School campus — which hosts five schools — normally has 14 agents on duty this year. That number is down from over 20 […]
Mayor Eric Adams Shows Love and Support for School Safety Agents
Today, at a school in the Bronx, Mayor Adams thanked School Safety Agents for supporting families. Check out the video shared by Mayor Adams on his official social media accounts.
NY Post: Student busted with loaded gun, $30K inside Brooklyn high school: sources
By Selim Algar A 17-year-old city student was busted with a loaded 9 mm pistol and more than $30,000 in cash inside a Brooklyn high school Wednesday, according to law enforcement sources. A school secretary spotted what she believed to be a firearm inside the backpack of a student at the Urban Assembly School for Law […]