‘We must be smarter’: Adams doubles down on student and school safety

By Isabel Song Beer

Posted on February 24, 2022

Mayor Eric Adams doubled down on his decisions to prioritize student and school safety using revolutionary new safety technology to prevent school violence and reiterated his commitment to ensuring safety for all schoolchildren in the city.

During a press conference on Feb. 23, Mayor Adams commented on his soon-to-be-announced plan for implementing a new security device for testing that allows law enforcement in a “humane way” to identify guns and weapons.