Hochul, Adams plan to boost cops, surveillance in NYC subways to fight skyrocketing crime - New York Post

Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams said Saturday they’d beryllium flooding the New York City subway strategy with much cops and installing surveillance cameras successful a associated effort to combat surging crime.

The inaugural — which comes conscionable implicit 2 weeks earlier Election Day — astatine Grand Central Terminal includes having the MTA and NYPD enactment unneurotic by adding 1,200 other overtime shifts regular connected the subway – equating to 10,000 other overtime patrols each day.

It besides includes 2 caller dedicated units astatine psychiatric centers to assistance supply radical with superior intelligence wellness issues with assistance they need.

We are “adding much cops, installing much cameras and providing much attraction to marque our subway safer and fto radical cognize they are invited here,” Hochul said.

“We cognize this won’t lick the occupation overnight,” she added.

Adams antecedently downplayed the city’s summation successful convulsive subway transgression successful a TV interview.

The additions see 2 caller dedicated units astatine psychiatric centers to assistance supply radical with superior intelligence wellness issues with assistance.Christopher Sadowski

The announcement came 2 days aft Adams utilized a TV interrogation to downplay the city’s summation successful convulsive subway transgression — and blamed the quality media for creating a mendacious “perception” that the concern underground is retired of control.

“We person an mean of little than six crimes a time connected a subway strategy with 3.5 cardinal riders,” Adams told CNN’s Chris Wallace.

“But if you constitute your communicative based connected a narrative, past you’re going to look astatine the worst of those six crimes and enactment it connected the beforehand pages of your insubstantial each day.”

Adams took his dismissive code astir mayhem successful the subways — wherever convulsive transgression this twelvemonth done August was up 39% compared to 2019 — a time aft the city’s ninth train-system homicide of the twelvemonth occurred successful Queens.