Utterly stupid.
Via PIX-11:
NEW YORK CITY — The NYPD will phase out its plainclothes anti-crime unit in what the police commissioner called “a seismic shift in the culture of how the NYPD polices this city,” he announced in a news conference Monday.
About 600 people are expected to transition from the plainclothes unit, and will move to the department’s detective and neighborhood policing units, among others.