The Blind and Sleepy Brains Reduced Crime in The Subways by Doing, What?
The cops are coming
If you were mayor of New York or any major City and were told the number of cops in the subway was very skimpy. There were times when mayors put one cop in every car and crime went down. My point? It is no secret crime in the subways due to no police presence. Crime in the subways is due to human roaches realizing they see no cops so there is no roach motel and they won't get caught. If one of them does not like how a woman is walking the platform, why not a sucker's punch and down to the tracks she goes.
(true crime)
With all the evidence that cops anywhere reduce crime, why doesn't it occur to the Gov and her beastie Mayor that putting more cops in the subways is solution number one?
Well sure the mayor thought about it but his brain got so tangled up with non-NewYorkers being bussed here that he had to use the money available to buy them Tickets for Canada and get them hotel rooms and travel to every station between DC and Long Island to say it was unfair to bus people here. In all fairness, there are some blind people in government saying that making the station pretty is the fix. Sure let's give the roaches pretty places to operate. Crime should always be no. 1 whether is a new building that is erected or the subways that keep the city going. Adam Gonzalez for *ABI
*Crime has fallen on New York City’s subway since the October start of a safety initiative that filled the system with more police officers, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams said on Friday.
Ms. Hochul and Mr. Adams, speaking at a news conference in Manhattan, said that rates of major crimes in the subway had dropped 16 percent from Oct. 25 to Jan. 22, compared with the same period a year earlier.
“That is a trend that we can feel good about,” Ms. Hochul said, “as long as that continues to hold.”
Criminal justice experts echoed the governor’s tempered statement.
“They can certainly pat themselves on the back for a couple months of good numbers,” said Christopher Herrmann, an associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “But we’re going to have to kind of wait and see how things play out during the year.”
The mayor and governor said in October that along with improving public safety, the move to assign more officers to the subway was meant to combat a public perception — fed by several high-profile crimes — that the system had become much more dangerous.
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Ms. Hochul’s office said on Friday that the state had committed up to $62 million to help the city cover the cost of hundreds of additional overtime shifts a day for police officers to patrol the subway. She and other officials also announced a plan to install cameras inside every train car, among other safety-oriented efforts. The moves came as Mr. Adams ramped up a push late last year to remove homeless people from the system.
The anti-crime initiatives were spurred by a rise in violence on a vital transit network. There were 10 killings on the subway last year, compared with an average of two a year in the five years before the pandemic began.
There has been at least one killing on the subway so far this year, with a man facing a manslaughter charge after a second man he was fighting with fell onto the tracks at a Manhattan subway station and died.
The crime problems on the subway have been mirrored outside the system. Citywide, surges in robbery, burglary, and other crimes helped drive a 22 percent increase in major crime last year compared with 2021 despite a significant drop in shootings and murders that reflected national trends.
Responding to the crime data released by Ms. Hochul and Mr. Adams, some officials said it was unclear how much the city and state were spending on the safety effort.
“There are open questions about the overall cost of this initiative and we’ll be closely evaluating the governor and mayor’s proposed spending plans in the coming weeks,” Councilwoman Selvena N. Brooks-Powers and Councilwoman Kamillah Hanks said in a joint statement. Ms. Brooks-Powers leads the transportation and infrastructure committee; Ms. Hanks chairs the public safety committee.
The announcement on Friday came a day after Mr. Adams delivered his second State of the City address. In the speech, the mayor, a former police captain, said he would keep public safety among his top priorities. Mr. Adams said he wanted to address a “recidivism crisis” by targeting 1,700 repeat offenders involved in violent crime.
A New York Times analysis of Metropolitan Transportation Authority and police statistics published in November showed that the possibility of being a victim of violent crime in the subway was remote, even as the rate of offenses like murder, rape, felony assault, and robbery had more than doubled since 2019. The analysis found that the rate of 1.2 violent crimes for every million subway rides roughly equaled the chances of getting injured in a crash during a two-mile drive.
But a string of high-profile shoves, stabbings, and shootings on trains and in stations have shocked many New Yorkers, causing some to avoid public transit.
Ridership hovers at about 65 percent of its pre-pandemic levels, and many of those who have stopped using the system cite safety concerns as a factor. Still, the authority said that ridership from January through October 2022 was up 39 percent over the same period in 2021.
Clara Cisneros, a veterinarian, said the added police officers had been a comforting sight during her commute from Downtown Brooklyn to her job in Manhattan.
“I am very hyper-aware of everyone else,” Ms. Cisneros, 29, said. “You just never know.”
Luis Ferré-Sadurnà contributed reporting. NYtimes
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