The Adams administration introduced this nation’s first pilot program that instantly integrates public colleges with New York Metropolis’s 911 providers.
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I’ve all the time stated that public security is the prerequisite to prosperity in our metropolis, and it has all the time been our administration’s North Star. We attempt to make sure that all New Yorkers really feel protected of their properties, on the streets, and in different public areas — this consists of in our colleges the place our younger folks spend a lot of their time.
Our college students should be capable to really feel protected at school to allow them to deal with their research, mother and father should really feel that they’re leaving their youngsters in a safe atmosphere, and our academics and workers should really feel assured that we’re protecting them protected at work to allow them to deal with instructing our younger ones.
That’s the reason our administration is proud to announce this nation’s first pilot program that instantly integrates public colleges with New York Metropolis’s 911 providers. Via this new initiative, we can save lives by offering fast response in lively shooter conditions.
We have now examined this program, and now, we’re rolling it out to a complete of 51 colleges throughout the 5 boroughs through the 2025-2026 faculty yr, beginning with the Spring Creek campus in Brooklyn.
Our Emergency Alert System (EAS) might be activated from a number of mounted buttons and wi-fi lanyards inside a faculty, and it’s able to initiating a 911 response in beneath 10 seconds with out going by means of a switchboard. This school-activated EAS will even bypass the New York Metropolis 911 name move and be routed on to real-time dispatch.
On the similar time, colleges will present audio and visible cues that notify college students and school that New York Metropolis 911 has been alerted and that their faculty is on a tough lockdown.
In a perfect world, we might not should be planning for easy methods to reply within the case of a faculty taking pictures, however sadly, we don’t stay in a perfect world — and in our present actuality, we have to be proactive and prepared for all prospects, nonetheless stunning they might be.
Since we got here into workplace almost 4 years in the past, our administration has already taken greater than 24,300 unlawful weapons off our streets, and because of our proactive public security efforts, taking pictures incidents and taking pictures victims are at their lowest ranges within the metropolis’s recorded historical past.
Shootings have additionally decreased by 55 % and homicides have declined by 36.5 % citywide in comparison with the identical interval earlier than we got here into workplace, and in October 2025, main crimes dropped by 6.5 %.
New York Metropolis is and stays the most secure large metropolis in America, and our new EAS will construct on our work to ensure our colleges have probably the most safe line of protection potential as we shield our college students, academics, and college workers.
