Gov. Hochul’s plan to place police on each in a single day subway prepare begins subsequent week, she instructed reporters Thursday.
The plan, which Hochul first introduced in her State of the State tackle earlier this week, is supposed to bolster the visibility of legislation enforcement officers on metropolis mass transit for the subsequent six months
“People want to see police officers on the trains and in the stations,” she instructed 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 gained’t be hiring any further transit cops, nevertheless.
The governor’s $77 million initiative will as an alternative fund six months of time beyond regulation for greater than 1,000 officers, together with 300 further excursions of obligation for in a single day subway patrols and time beyond regulation for 750 officers in stations and on platforms.
In keeping with the town’s Workplace of Administration and Finances, 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 prepare on the 207th St. A prepare station on Thursday, April 30, 2020, in Manhattan. (AP Photograph/John Minchillo)
The surge comes on high of 1,000 Nationwide Guard troopers deployed to the system by Hochul final 12 months, plus at the very 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 have been murdered within the New York Metropolis subway system final 12 months — together with the latest, random and grotesque immolation of a homeless New Jersey lady asleep on a Brooklyn prepare — 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.
