Mayor Eric Adams told reporters on Thursday that he will deploy 1,000 more police officers to the Bronx following a string of shootings in the borough, some of them fatal.

"We have 1,000 more officers that are being deployed up here to go after the hot spots, and go after the areas ... we call precision policing," he said.

Adams also said he wants the city’s crisis management teams and other professional mediation groups to facilitate a meeting with local gang leaders “in the next few days.”

“I am going to see if I can convince some of the gang members to come and sit down,” Adams said. “It could be at Gracie Mansion, or it could be here. We need to get around the table and engage in a conversation.”

The announcement comes after multiple shootings took place in the borough in recent da

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