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To Relieve Rikers 'Pressure,' Cops Will Oversee Detainees in Court

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 9/15/21

NYPD officers will take over some court duties from Department of Correction officers, according to one of a series of executive orders issued Sept. 14 by Mayor de Blasio. And Governor Hochul signed a bill Sept. 17 and announced other moves that were expected to immediately reduce the city's swelling jail population.

But the Mayor's measure, one of five meant to stanch a recent cascade of dysfunction inside Rikers Island jails—including the deaths of as many as nine people in custody so far this year—drew claims of union-busting from one correction-union leader.

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