Calls are growing louder to make the New York City transit system safer, and now the MTA board is planning to shift their focus to removing people dealing with severe mental illness.
The MTA board met Monday to talk strategy as their focus shifts to removing people dealing with severe mental illness from the transit system. N.J. Burkett has the story.Calls are growing louder to make the New York City transit system safer, and now the MTA board is planning to shift their focus to removing people dealing with severe mental illness from the subway system.
Thousands of additional officers are now patrolling the New York City transit system. During peak hours, officers will be posted in two out of three stations, an unprecedented deployment of NYPD manpower underground. "Much of it is going to be extension of their ordinary tour," NYPD Transit Chief Jason Wilcox said. "So, if they do, you know, if they work in the morning hours, there'll be extended into the evening hours. And our goal is to maximize as many cops in as many stations and as on many trains because we're still very committed to doing the train runs."
In the past two weeks, several riders have been shoved to the tracks, shot and stabbed. Most, if not all of the incidents, were random and unprovoked.
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