Cops 'spread thin' as anti-Israel agitators, high-profile Trump trial exhaust NYPD: expert

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New York City police officers are spread thin juggling mass anti-Israel college protests, influxes of migrants and the high-profile Trump trial on top of regular policing, an expert says.

New York City has become the epicenter of campus protests at the hands of radicals denouncing Israel and Jews worldwide, forcing the NYPD to juggle yet another public safety concern and hundreds of arrests, in addition to ongoing crime trends, the immigration crisis, police understaffing and even security surrounding the unprecedented trial of former President Trump in Manhattan.

Between Columbia's and The City College of New York's campuses last week, police arrested 282 people and worked to dismantle illegal encampments. The NYPD revealed half of those arrested were outside agitators not affiliated with the universities.

 

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