NYC Mayor Eric Adams claims the city has made strides in curbing subway crime but acknowledges that recent violent incidents, such as the fatal burning of a woman on an F train, overshadow these achievements. Despite assurances of safety and plans to deploy more officers, concerns persist about rising subway crime.
in which a woman was burned to death on an F train — “overshadowed” New York City’s supposed successes in reining in subway crime during 2024, Mayor Eric Adams contended Tuesday. Adams, during a defiant end-of-year news conference, repeated his years-long mantra that the “perception” of out-of-control subway crime must be curtailed. “We are doing the job on bringing down the numbers, but as I say over and over and I said in 2022, New Yorkers must feel safe,” he told reporters from City Hall.
Mayor Eric Adams argued Tuesday that the city’s successes on reining in subway violence were “overshadowed” by random attacks.Newly installed NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch will send more officers onto subway platforms and into trains themselves to engage straphangers, Adams said, without providing details on how many additional cops or when or where they would be deployed.The shocking, caught-on-video spectacle of Kawam’s body consumed by fire on an F train in Coney Island — all while the accused killer fanned the flames, before calmly sitting to watch the deadly pyre — punctuated a year of concerns that the subways are returning to the unsafe bad old days. The fears led the red-bereted Guardian Angels and the crusaders’ flamboyant founder, Curtis Sliwa, to return for the first time in years to patrol the subways, whereAdams warned Sliwa, his Republican opponent in the 2021 mayoral election, not to “overstep.” The mayor maintained the subway system only has six reported crimes a day, but a deeper look at NYPD crime statistics shows violent crime, including murder, has been rising on the rails.As Adams insisted the subways are safe, he also brushed off his scandal-plagued year that saw many of his top embattled pals pushed ou
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