Crime may be dropping inside city schools but staffing isn\u2019t keeping up.<\/p>\n
The NYPD is now facing hundreds of vacancies for school safety agents.<\/p>\n
\u201cSchool safety agent is one that we are having difficulty recruiting for, our actual headcount is significantly under our budgeted headcount,” said NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.<\/p>\n
The department says it currently has hundreds of vacancies with about a 12% gap in staffing.<\/p>\n
The NYPD says it’s losing an average of 37 school safety agents every month, while struggling to hire more.<\/p>\n
To help fill the gap the department says it moved about 100 agents out of admin roles and back into schools.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also created a new entry-level position with a lower starting salary to build a pipeline of future agents.<\/p>\n
The NYPD says crime in schools is down this year, but officials acknowledge, without enough school safety agents keeping students safe and moving on time remains a challenge.<\/p>\n
It says it is now looking at ways to improve recruitment including changing how candidates are tested and hired. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime may be dropping inside city schools but staffing isn\u2019t keeping up. The NYPD is now facing hundreds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,5302,9,24,63,103,46198,53885],"class_list":["post-168888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-jessica-tisch","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-nypd-data","tag-nypd-school-safety-agent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}