NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The NYPD will redeploy undercover officers to help handle the recent uptick of anti-Asian hate crimes across the city, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said Tuesday.
“We’re going to redeploy some of our undercover officers, if you will, to be out there and to make sure that people aren’t going to be unfairly targeted,” Shea said during an interview on NY1.
The department will use patrols as decoys in Chinatown, Flushing, Queens, as well as other Asian communities in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, Shea said.
“When you look at different sections of New York City, whether it’s in Chinatown, whether it’s here in Lower Manhattan, whether it’s in Flushing or parts of Brooklyn, you’re going to see uniformed, as well as some people that may surprise you,” Shea said.
Shea did not give any additional details on the deployment adding that the NYPD will not “discuss staffing levels for security reasons.”
"And we’ll have more to say on that when we redeploy some of our undercover officers, if you will, to be out there and to make sure that, you know, people aren’t being unfairly targeted, whether in the transit system or above ground.”