Officer Lauren Pagan looked at the line of dancers in the overheated cafeteria at a Queens high school on a recent Monday night and frowned. They were gyrating through moves choreographed to Mamacita, a pulsating, Reggaeton-inflected song by the Black Eyed Peas and Ozuna. She had told the dancers to count to eight as they moved through the steps, but they were dancing in silence.
Nobody's listening around here, I see, Officer Pagan, the vice president of the New York Police Department Dance Team, said. She started the music again and ordered the dancers to count. This time, they obeyed.
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