NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says an “unacceptable bureaucracy” led to the lack of security cameras in the public housing elevator where a child was stabbed to death.
A 6-year-old boy was killed and a 7-year-old girl critically injured in Sunday’s attack.
Their assailant remains at large. There were not any security cameras in the elevator in Brooklyn’s Boulevard Houses.
De Blasio on Tuesday criticized the housing authority for not spending the $27 million still available in the budget for security improvements like cameras.
He said that money could install cameras in nearly 50 housing developments.
He criticized the policies of his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, but added that his own administration had not acted swiftly to fix things.
De Blasio accepted responsibility, saying “the buck stops with me.”
