Student Safety Act data from the fourth quarter of 2019 shows a 14% decrease in total NYPD interventions in City schools compared to the same period in 2018: from 3,578 interventions to 3,654.
As New York grapples with the devastating and far-reaching impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, Children’s Defense Fund – New York (CDF-NY) is deeply alarmed by our State’s burden of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C).