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Summary Driving a taxi or livery car can be one of the city s more dangerous jobs in NY.
Citing some deadly attacks on the drivers the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers distributed the vests and drivers started using them immediately.Priority was given to drivers working the night shift in areas where statistics showed high incidence of attacks -- chiefly in outlying parts of boroughs outside Manhattan. One dozen vests were donated by New York-based security firm Security USA, adding to another 20 or so protective shields that had been previously donated by retired police officers.
