NYPD to begin night patrols after 8 shot in one day 

The New York Police Department (NYPD) will implement night patrols in violence-prone areas to help mitigate crime in the Big Apple after at least eight people were shot in the city on Sunday. 

The patrols are part of Mayor Eric Adam’s summer-violence-prevention plan. 

NYPD officers will have stricter law enforcement coverage between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. “That time of night when we are most thin, we are going to have a lot of coverage out there that we don’t normally have. Nearly half our shootings are happening between that five-hour window of 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.,” NYPD Chief of Department Ken Corey said.

The patrol strategy also includes having NYPD’s 350 Neighborhood Coordination Officers work during the evenings to support the officers patrolling and assign an inspector to each borough to coordinate resources. Furthermore, the plan also includes having field officers on the streets to act as “extra eyes and ears,” coordinate and deploy police resources to where violence could happen, and further enforce traffic violations. 

"We're trying to use a lot of resources that we've never tapped for this before and use them in very different and creative ways," Corey added. "And we think that we've found a nice balance where we'll be able to do that."

The measure comes a day after eight people were shot throughout the city on Sunday. One of Sunday’s victims includes the killing of a delivery man in Forest Hills, Queens. The victim was driving on his scooter to make a delivery between 108th street and 67th Drive when a suspect fired shots in the area, fatally wounding Zhiwen Yan. 

Throughout last weekend, there were 11 shooting incidents, bringing the number of shootings in the city so far in the year to 402 with 470 victims. 

“We’re not going to have a city of disorder,” Adams said on Monday. 

“We’re really zeroing in, going after gangs, which are the drivers of our shootings, going after those hot spots,” Adams told reporters Monday. 

“And what we have historically done is we have tied public safety only to policing. We’re going to engage every agency in our city to be part of our public-safety fight. And what we did Saturday with our commanders, we’re doing it with all of our agencies. And so our precinct commanders and officers are now going to have a clear understanding of what is expected of them."