After a string of attacks in the subway system in just the past week, New York City and the state unveiled a new plan on Shabbos to fight crime on city transit. It includes surging more officers throughout the system.
CBS News reports that the subway crime-fighting plan has three parts – adding more cops, installing more cameras and placing those with mental health problems at psychiatric centers. Expect to see more uniformed officers patrolling subways on moving trains. That’s a promise from the MTA, Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD in response to subway riders who are scared and fed up.
Better, according to Adams, means boosting presence with longer workdays for officers, adding 1,200 daily overtime shifts.
“That uniform means a lot. When people see the officer walking through the trains, when people see the officers on the platform,” Adams said, CBS News reports.
The joint city/state initiative is called “Cops, Cameras, Care.” It was announced by Hochul, the incumbent looking to hold on to her seat on Election Day in just over two weeks.
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Make the cops work overtime… oh good idea. There aren’t enough officers as it is. But this way after hoichul is elected they won’t have to fire anyone they can just stop the overtime and things will return to where they are now.
Take back Charlene McCray’s billion dollar mental health program and use it for public safety.