Felony crimes remain high within the subway system, with felonies up more than 30% compared to this time last year. They have dropped about 24% in the last four weeks, according to police data.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.Transit and police leaders defended their ever-evolving strategy to tamp down crime in the subways during an hours-long City Council hearing Monday, which came just days after a man was fatally stabbed inside a Greenwich Village subway station.
Officials outlined various steps they’ve taken in recent months to bolster subway safety, including installing more surveillance cameras, deploying more police officers underground, hiring private security guards to monitor turnstiles and pairing law enforcement with clinicians and social workers to offer services to people sleeping in trains and subway stations.
Some local lawmakers challenged the MTA’s decision to spend about $1 million monthly on a combination of armed and unarmed guards at several stations with high rates of fare evasion and vandalism.
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