School safety agents across New York City will be outfitted with bullet-resistant vests as soon as next school year as the NYPD tries to tamp down the growing increase in youth-on-youth violence, the Daily News has learned.
The Police Department last week ordered that school safety agents — unarmed NYPD employees posted in city schools — will be “issued a durable and lightweight ballistic resistant vest, funded by the department.”
The decision was made after a pilot program in which 300 school safety agents across the city were given vests.
