NATION IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Dinkins Calls for Additional Police
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Mayor David N. Dinkins ordered the hiring of 1,058 new police officers for expanded street patrols to combat “a surge in violence” in New York City. Among recent violent incidents have been the slayings of four children by stray bullets and the murders of 19 cab drivers. The mayor said he “scraped, scratched and squeezed” to find $24 million in the $27.8-billion fiscal 1991 city budget to pay for the officers. The police force now numbers 26,000.
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