What is the Mayor waiting for, asks NYC school safety agents union leader? Is Mamdani waiting until someone is killed?
Before New York City schools opened for the school year, a loaded automatic handgun was seized from student at a sports practice. The following week, another loaded gun was taken from a student in Staten Island, another in Brooklyn, and a slashing occurred at the entrance to a Bronx school.
“What is Mayor Mamdani going to do? When will he take action,” asked Local 237 Teamsters President Gregory Floyd, which represents nearly 20,000 New York City employees including school safety personnel.
A force once of 5,500, today there are less than 3,500 school safety agents of all ranks.
The ability to stop what appears to be an increased flow of loaded ready-to-use automatic handguns and slashing devices—knives and scalpels—is hampered by a lack of scanning machines, the newest of which has shown themselves often incapable of detecting smaller scalpels , a seeming new weapon of choice in New York’s 1,400 physical school buildings which contain 1,600-1,800 schools.
Today, there are less than 100 schools with full time scanners.
“The system is in tatters. Weapons maim, kill. That is why they were created,” Floyd continued.
“The only question? When will Mayor Mamdani stand up to defend our children,” Floyd concluded.
