500 Bodegas with high crime to get panic buttons

Brooklyn – Mayor Eric Adams, first deputy mayor Randy Mastro and NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch On Sunday, an initiative of $ 1.6 million to install “Silentshield” panic buttons in 500 bodegas not announced all over the city announced. The keys, which were financed by a scholarship to the United Bodegas of America and were included in the preliminary budget, aim to improve the security of Bodega violence in the years. At a press conference, Radhames Rodriguez, President of UBA, said that Bodega owners have been fighting for this kind of help for years.

Adams described the device as a “panic button that you can press immediately, which worries the police, and it is connected directly to the local district. If you carry out the combination, there will be [police] Access to the cameras in the shop to see what takes place and how we can get an immediate answer. “

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