New York no longer has a face mask mandate — and New York City Mayor Eric Adams is telling stores to get customers to lower their mask before entering, to help prevent crime.
In addition to easing clerks' anxiety, Adams and other leaders say, removing masks can give cameras a chance to identify criminals.
NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, the highest-ranking uniformed member of the agency, echoed Adams as he and other officials spoke about a recent spate of store robberies at a"As a sign of a peace offering, a sign of safety to those store workers, when we walk in, we should take down our mask," Maddrey said, calling it"a commonsense approach."
In each robbery, Assistant Chief Joseph Kenny of the NYPD's detective bureau said,"The perpetrator arrived on the scene driving a dark-colored scooter, wearing a white full-bodied Tyvek suit and a dark-colored face mask." "The whole mask thing, in this case, it seems kind of silly," said journalist Kemberly Richardson of ABC 7.
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