New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams
Photograph courtesy Workplace of the Mayor of the Metropolis of New York
Bodegas are on each nook of New York Metropolis, there for us in any respect hours, and the bodegueros who service them turn out to be our household. So, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit our metropolis, our bodegas have been a lifeline to our native communities. We relied on them for bathroom paper, snacks, diapers, and a way of neighborhood at a time of utmost uncertainty.
And whereas New York Metropolis has seen declines in main crimes, it’s necessary that we take extra steps to deal with the crimes our bodegueros proceed to face and provides them a means contact 911 throughout an emergency with out having to seek out their cellphone or worry being attacked by a prison. Now, because of the partnership of the Adams administration and the United Bodegas of America, our bodegueros will have the ability to click on a button throughout emergencies and NYPD shall be on their means with out anybody realizing.
New York Metropolis shall be investing $1.6 million to fund “SilentShields” buttons at 500 bodegas that may immediately name the NYPD throughout emergencies. These buttons will instantly direct metropolis assets to those small companies in order that New York Metropolis generally is a lifeline for them, similar to bodegas have been a lifeline for us throughout COVID.
We’re beginning by distributing these buttons to bodegas within the areas with the best ranges of crime in order that employees and clients, in communities who want them essentially the most, shall be secure and, extra importantly, really feel secure.
Now, employees could have extra peace of thoughts if an armed prison comes right into a bodega to ransack their merchandise or steal their money and we are going to be certain that our small enterprise house owners can proceed to make a dwelling and keep open for the neighborhood.
And that’s not all: final yr, we introduced a program that lets native companies voluntarily share surveillance video in real-time with the NYPD by their closed-circuit tv cameras as they search to resolve crimes.
By permitting bodegas to combine their safety cameras with their native NYPD precinct, we are able to collect real-time intelligence on crimes and swiftly apprehend people who’re accountable, whereas making NYPD extra environment friendly and involving the local people in enhancing high quality of life.
Including to all this, because of town increasing eligibility necessities for brand new officers and continued metropolis funding, the Adams administration is on path to reaching 35,000 uniformed NYPD officers by the autumn of 2026. Meaning that we are going to have extra cops obtainable to reply to calls coming from bodegas, too.
To our bodegueros: New York Metropolis has your again.
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