The New York Police Department is introducing new programs to prevent youth crime, including the introduction of youth-coordination officers in each precinct and a new computerized tracking and reporting system on crime.
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said Wednesday in a speech in Manhattan that the programs represent a new strategy for the department in response to an increase in 2019 in violent crimes involving young people.
Mr. Shea said that the NYPD can do a better job of preventing teens from becoming involved in criminal activity, even as the city’s overall crime rate remains at a historic low. “What we have to do is organize and focus all of these resources so that a troubled kid doesn’t go from 12 years old to 18 years old without us ever intervening in a life going wrong,” Mr. Shea said.
The focus on youth crimes comes after NYPD officials identified three teenage suspects in the murder of Tessa Majors, a Barnard College student killed in Manhattan’s Morningside Park in December. NYPD officials also said teenage suspects were a driver in an increase in robberies in the city in 2019.
The programs, which will begin this spring, entail the introduction of more than 300 new youth coordination officers in each of the department’s 77 precincts. The new officers will be tasked with following individual cases of juvenile delinquency, Mr. Shea said, in an effort to rehabilitate young people involved in crimes. The officers will also coordinate with other city agencies and local community-service groups on broader efforts to promote positive behaviors, he said.
The NYPD will also enlist 5,500 school safety agents, who are safety agents assigned to public schools, in regular strategy meetings to enhance information sharing and connect youth to needed resources such as counseling, police officials said.
The NYPD will also parse detailed statistical analyses of crimes committed by youths, in an effort modeled after the department’s CompStat crime-analysis system, to effectively deploy crime-fighting resources where needed.
Kesi Foster, co-director of a youth program at the nonprofit Make the Road New York, said that the city’s resources could be better put to use in the hiring of counselors and social workers for teens.
“We don’t need to enhance the policing of young people,” Mr. Foster said. “We could use these resources to create more supportive staff positions in schools and increase resources in communities, so they have access to jobs and programs.”
Write to Ben Chapman at Ben.Chapman@wsj.com
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