New NYPD Plan Involves New Yorkers in Community Policing

The NYPD is rolling out a new community policing program that will involve regular meetings with the public in neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs. The idea is to bring residents closer to the officers who patrol their streets, ending decades of top-down relationships between precinct commanders and community leaders.  

According to the NYPD's Chief of Patrol, Terence Monahan, "This is what the cops want. They want to get to work closer with their communities. They know that 99 percent of the communities they serve are good, hard-working people and they want to be able to interact....We want them to be innovative, come up with new ideas."