As coronavirus ravages the city, New York Police Department detectives are responding to a significant rise in calls to homes where a death is reported, an increase one detective called 'overwhelming'
As coronavirus ravages the city, New York Police Department detectives are responding to a significant rise in calls to homes where a death is reported, an increase one detective called"overwhelming."
Detectives are often the first to go inside homes where a death is reported. Lately, most of the calls involved a person who died from a Covid-19 infection."Any death, detectives have to respond and make sure it's of natural causes and conduct an investigation," says NYPD Detective Endowment Association President Paul DiGiacomo, who estimates his members are seeing triple the amount of dead on arrival calls they normally have.
— Detectives' Endowment Association April 10, 2020 Members who have lost loved ones call the union"daily," DiGiacomo said.The Queens detective said he takes a deep breath and double checks his gear before responding to every home, but every day"is scary.""I know I am going to get it. It's completely, utterly unavoidable.
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