Plainclothes Baltimore Police officers are now being ordered to wear uniforms until a ... Officers who work in the Violent Crime Impact Section will have to wear vests and police raid jackets.

“The clothing that police wear can be very intimidating,” says Jeffrey Ian Ross, a criminologist at the University of Baltimore. Officers in tactical gear can strike fear in onlookers, Ross ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has vowed to combat the rise in gun violence by reinstating a controversial plainclothes police unit. Past complaints included racial profiling and excessive force.

New York City's new mayor, Eric Adams, a former NYPD officer, says the unit will help curb gun violence and will be run differently than the original, which was ruled unconstitutional.

Members of the NYPD’s disbanded plainclothes anti-crime unit will be reassigned to uniformed patrol duties “effective immediately,” according to an internal memo obtained by the Post ...

Mayor Eric Adams vowed Tuesday that the new plainclothes NYPD unit tasked with wiping out gun violence will be a fresh start -- and nothing like the department's notorious anti-crime unit of the past.

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