After two NYPD officers were shot in a public housing stairwell in the Bronx final week,we take a closer view at the problems facing both residents and cops doing vertical patrols. This shooting comes just as a jury prepares to hear closing arguments in the trial of officer Peter Liang, a New York City cop who fatally shot an unarmed man named Akai Gurley in a public housing stairwell in Brooklyn in 2014.
Richard Aborn, or president of the Citizens Crime Commission and the former assistant Manhattan DA, discusses the state of NYCHA housing stairwells.
Source: wnyc.org