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âWe knew this person by name, called him by his first name, asked him how he was feeling. And he dropped the knife, and came to us and started listening to us.â. But despite this proven track record, only 10 percent of the nationâs 25,000 police departments require crisis intervention training. In North Carolina, where Keith was killed, only one in five officers receive the training.
The swearing in represented the start of a buildup requested by the police commissioner and approved by the mayor and the City Council when they adopted a city budget in June. The police commissioner says by the end of next year, those additional 1,300 officers will be on the city's streets. With the extra head count, there will be nearly 36,000 officers on the force. The police union, though, continues to say that's not enough. It wants to see 40,000 officers, like the NYPD had 15 years ago. We have to go back to the numbers of safe streets, safe cities, which gave us enough police officers to proactively go after the crime. That's what saved this city, said PBA President Pat Lynch.