Inside NYPD's 'massive' security operation for UN General Assembly amid protests

Throughout the past week, New Yorkers braced for postulation standstills and headaches astir Midtown Manhattan arsenic the culminating week of the United Nations General Assembly got underway. Meanwhile, members of the New York City Police Department were focused connected securing the lawsuit arsenic much than 130 satellite dignitaries came and went.

"It’s a monolithic operation, a monolithic undertaking," Tarik Sheppard, lawman commissioner of NYPD’s Public Information said. "We person a batch of cops and detectives retired determination assigned, and it's conscionable thing that erstwhile it's over, you're conscionable arrogant to beryllium a portion of – due to the fact that it is 1 of the biggest satellite events that we have."

Sheppard gave Fox News an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look astatine the NYPD's Joint Operations Center, wherever officers show respective of the city’s camera systems and past deploy officers connected the crushed erstwhile an exigency effect is needed.

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The New York Police Department gave Fox News an exclusive look astatine its Joint Operations Center, wherever national agencies joined NYPD officers to guarantee the information of much than 130 satellite leaders for the U.N. General Assembly. (Fox News/CB Cotton)

Last week, NYPD officers astatine the halfway were joined by members of the Secret Service, FBI, Homeland Security and the White House Military Office.

"So we're partnered up and linked together… conscionable successful lawsuit thing happens [so] the messaging tin beryllium successful unison," Sheppard said.

In summation to safely securing the accomplishment and departure of diplomats and U.S. leaders, the Joint Operations Center was besides intimately monitoring protestation enactment to guarantee that mundane residents didn’t person an further hindrance to commutes already disrupted by the United Nations gathering. 

NYPD officers basal defender during a rally for Gaza astatine the Consulate General of Israel connected Oct. 9, 2023, successful New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

"It's the cognition of what's happening retired determination that we person to conflict due to the fact that they [protesters] are filming their videos saying,’No, we're truthful peaceful,’" Sheppard said. "They’re not showing you astatine times the transgression mischief, the demolition of property, the blocking successful the roadways wherever the mean national is conscionable trying to get location oregon prime their kid up – them being delayed for an hr 2 tin truly beryllium disruptive to families and origin major, large issues." 

NYPD officers artifact activists protesting extracurricular the Federal Reserve Bank of New York successful the Financial District of New York City, Sept. 18, 2023. (Reuters/Bing Guan/File Photo)

Since the commencement of the Israel-Hamas war, the NYPD has monitored upwards of 4,000 protests, according to the NYPD’s Chief of Patrol John Chell, who shared immoderate of the department’s strategy for securing the United Nations during a quality league earlier this month. 

The struggle successful Gaza arose at the U.N. past week. As speeches from some Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas got underway, protesters gathered adjacent intending to disrupt the gathering – without success.

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"The important happening is to retrieve to respect people's First Amendment rights; however, we're not going to let crimes to beryllium committed," Sheppard said.