2024-03-06T20:34:21+00:00
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/ The Democratic Governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, introduced on Wednesday her intention to deploy a thousand members of the state’s Nationwide Guard – the equal of military and police forces – within the metropolis’s subway, to struggle crime after a collection of incidents.
This announcement comes within the wake of a taking pictures incident that occurred in mid-February at a station within the Bronx, which resulted within the demise of 1 particular person and the harm of 5 others.
In late February, a subway driver was stabbed in a Brooklyn station, and the variety of severe crimes on the transportation community elevated by 50% in January in comparison with the identical month in 2023.
The New York governor mentioned: “We won’t tolerate these heinous and brazen assaults on the town’s subway system.”
The objective of deploying Nationwide Guard troopers is to assist the NYPD improve passenger bag searches on the busiest stations.
Democratic Mayor of New York Eric Adams, a former police chief elected in 2021, promising to impose safety within the metropolis after the Covid pandemic, additionally introduced enhanced inspections.
Hochul promised to deploy further surveillance cameras and introduced plans to make it simpler to forestall folks convicted of attacking a transportation community worker from coming into the metro.
Earlier than the collection of incidents that occurred in latest weeks, essentially the most severe incident dates again to April 2022, when a person opened hearth on a prepare in Brooklyn throughout rush hour, wounding dozens of individuals.