New York Post

38 SHOT IN JUST 5 DAYS

No NYPD ‘anti-crime’

- By TINA MOORE, LARRY CELONA and AMANDA WOODS tmoore@nypost.com

Shootings are surging this week in New York City, with 28 incidents and 38 victims reported since Monday — the day the NYPD disbanded its plaincloth­es anti-crime unit, The Post learned on Friday.

By comparison, during the same week last year, there were 12 shootings for the entire week.

In the most recent reported shooting, at 4 p.m. Friday in East New York, Brooklyn, a 27-year-old man died of multiple gunshot wounds to the torso, face and leg in front of 640 Stanley Ave. A 17-year-old boy also shot there was in stable condition, police said.

“This is what the politician­s wanted — no bail, nobody in Rikers, cops not arresting anyone,” one angry law-enforcemen­t source said Friday.

“All those things equal people walking around on the street with guns, shooting each other.”

The week of shooting includes at least five murders, sources told The Post.

One particular­ly gruesome slaying happened early Wednesday outside a party in Brooklyn’s East Flatbush sectopm.

Jomo Glasgow, 35, a wellliked DJ from Queens, was fatally shot in the torso — and managed to drag himself around the block before collapsing, police said.

On Thursday night into Friday morning, there was a total of seven shootings, all but two in Brooklyn.

Members of the NYPD’s anti-crime unit were reassigned to uniformed-patrol duties on Monday — part of what Police Commission­er Dermot Shea called a “seismic” shift affecting some 600 cops.

The disbanding of the unit comes almost six years after one of its plaincloth­es cops placed Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold, sparking the “I can’t breathe” rallying cry for police-brutality protesters.

There have been 97 shootings this month so far, compared to 89 for all of June 2019.

Additional reporting by Craig McCarthy, Joe Marino and Laura Italiano

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