Mayor de Blasio got jarred out of his normal complacency about the upward trend in violent crime in the city April 7 when a reporter noted that, in addition to a tourist having been shot in Times Square, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea had expressed outrage about a 5-year-old girl having been struck in the head by a stray bullet, which fortunately just grazed her.
Initially, he offered his boilerplate answer, talking about the impact of the pandemic and how "deepening the bond between NYPD and community" was going to solve the problem.
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