Captain Pratima Bhullar Maldonado runs the 102nd Police Precinct in South Richmond Hill -- home to one of the largest Sikh communities in the US -- and is now the NYPD's first female South Asian captain
Plainclothes NYPD officers of Asian descent will be deployed in the city's public spaces to identify perpetrators of hate crimes and to discourage anti-Asian violence
Official sources said on Friday that the NYPD responded to 1,531 shooting incidents across the city's five boroughs in 2020, 754 more than the all of 2019, reports Xinhua news agency.