new York increase the presence of the city police and Security cameras on vehicles belonging to the metro system as well as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority nine murders this yearGovernor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams announced.
This will mean adding effort 1200 working shifts and police will be at more than 300 subway stations every day A popular destination for travelers to or from John F. Kennedy International Airport during rush hour, including the busiest Grand Central, Penn Station or Sutphin-Archer.
Including an initiative to combat violence in the subway a major public emergency fund investment The state will also ask train conductors to notify passengers when they enter a station with police officers.
At their joint press conference at the popular Grand Central Station, they also announced: will increase help in psychiatric centers to care for the homeless people who live on the streets and in the city subway, some of whom attack and kill train users.
Adams and Hochul also help the suffering mental illness serious.
“This effort will help two things New Yorkers desperately want: added hundreds of officers to be strategically deployed on our trains and helping those with serious mental illness,” Adams said since taking office last January. violence with firearms and the subway, the country’s largest transportation system.
“As a result, drivers and those considering breaking the law will see more officers in the system. On behalf of all New Yorkers, We are grateful for this government investment. This will make our subways safer,” he said.
Hochul stressed for his role Will do “whatever it takes” to make subways safer He said this initiative for passengers and announced today will also help the homeless get the support they need.