Gov. Hochul’s plan to place police on each in a single day subway practice begins subsequent week, she advised reporters Thursday.
The plan, which Hochul first introduced in her State of the State deal with earlier this week, is supposed to bolster the visibility of regulation enforcement officers on metropolis mass transit for the following six months
“People want to see police officers on the trains and in the stations,” she advised reporters.
Governor Hochul makes a subway security announcement on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Manhattan, New York. (Workplace of the Governor)
Beginning Monday, two NYPD officers will stroll every of the 150 subway trains that run in a single day from 9 p.m. to five a.m.
The plan received’t be hiring any extra transit cops, nevertheless.
The governor’s $77 million initiative will as a substitute fund six months of extra time for greater than 1,000 officers, together with 300 extra excursions of responsibility for in a single day subway patrols and extra time for 750 officers in stations and on platforms.
In accordance with town’s Workplace of Administration and Price range, there are at the moment 2,583 uniformed cops within the NYPD’s Transit Bureau.
“They’re not going anywhere,” Hochul mentioned. “This is not taking people out who are already performing important protective services.”
NYPD officers board a subway practice on the 207th St. A practice station on Thursday, April 30, 2020, in Manhattan. (AP Picture/John Minchillo)
The surge comes on prime of 1,000 Nationwide Guard troopers deployed to the system by Hochul final 12 months, plus at the least 250 state police. Not like state and native police, the Nationwide Guard has no authority to make arrests within the subway system.
Ten individuals had been murdered within the New York Metropolis subway system final 12 months — together with the latest, random and ugly immolation of a homeless New Jersey girl asleep on a Brooklyn practice — up from 5 murders in 2023.
Burglaries, robberies and grand larcenies within the subway system dropped in 2024, whereas the variety of felony and misdemeanor assaults remained regular.
