New York City is escalating efforts to combat fare evasion in its subway system by deploying 800 police officers to monitor turnstiles, according to officials.
New York City plans to intensify a crackdown on subway fare-beating by sending at least 800 police officers specifically to keep watch on turnstiles, officials announced Monday. It's the latest in a string of recent moves to address concerns about safety and unruliness in the nation's busiest subway system. Hours after the announcement, a person was shoved onto the tracks in East Harlem as a train was approaching the station.
said the incident was unprovoked. NEW YORK GOV HOCHUL CALLS IN NATIONAL GUARD, STATE POLICE TO HELP CURB CRIME IN NYC SUBWAYS The said earlier Monday it plans to deploy hundreds of uniformed and plainclothes officers this week to deter fare evasion. 'The tone of law and order starts at the turnstiles,' department Transit Chief Michael Kemper said at a news conference. Chief of Patrol John Chell said the additional officers would fan out to various stations, based on crime, ridership statistics and community complaints. Data shows the crackdown on fare-skippers is already under way.
Subway safety fears have proven difficult to put to rest since people in New York and other cities emerged from COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns to a 2021 spurt in crime. After taking office in 2022, Adams rolled out a plan to send more police, mental health clinicians and social service outreach workers into the subways.
to say in February that it was boosting underground patrols. Earlier this month, Gov. Kathy Hochul — like Adams, a Democrat — announced she was sending National Guard troops to help conduct random bag checks in the underground system. Hours before Monday's news conference, a man was stabbed multiple times on a subway train in a dispute over smoking, police said. A suspect was arrested.
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