Newark Pulls One-Officer Units Following NYPD Deaths, Union Says

The Newark Police Department is pulling its one-officer units off the streets, according to the president of the city’s police officer’s union.

“The Newark Fraternal Order of Police is primarily concerned with the safety of the officers in the street,” said James Stewart, president of the Newark police officer’s union, according to NJ.com. “In the climate we face today there is nothing more important. We are happy the Director agrees with our view and is putting the safety of the men and women in the street above all else.”

The decision to pull the one-officer units came only several hours following the killing of two New York Police Department officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, on Saturday, in what has been called an “assassination,” NJ.com reports.

In a department-wide broadcast, all one-officer units were called back to their precincts on Saturday night and replaced with two-officer units.