Mayor, NYPD showcase new tech to detect firearms in subway
Mayor Eric Adams ’ controversial plan to install gun-detecting tech in the Big Apple’s beleaguered transit system is set to boot up Friday in lower Manhattan, The Post has learned.A Post reporter observed workers setting up a scanner powered by an extension cord, as well as two iPads and one folding table at the transit center around 3 p.m.could soon see the detectors at subway stations — but his administration has been mum on where and when the program would actually start.
Commuters who spoke to The Post welcomed the scanners — as long as they are accurate and don’t hold up the hurried commuters. Melissa Williams, a 40-year-old who also lives in Brooklyn, said, “I think in this day and age, we need it. “Mayor Adams is on notice that if his Administration proceeds with plans to install this fraught, invasive, and ineffective technology at local subway stations to the detriment of all New Yorkers, we’ll see him in court,” Jennvine Wong, a supervising attorney in the Legal Aid Society’s Cop Accountability Project, said Friday morning.
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