(Source: City of New York, NY) March 22, 2016 Police Commissioner Bill Bratton: Okay. Thank you. The original purpose of the press event this morning was to discuss the department's ongoing response to the recent series of incidents involving cuttings, stabbings, slashings - the various terms that are used to describe events where a crime is committed using a cutting instrument. And what we'd like to do this morning is to update you on both what we've doing, as well as additional initiatives, as we're going forward. Since the beginning of 2016, there's been a noted increase in felonious assaults involving cutting instruments recorded as stabbings and slashings. Based on current statistics,...
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