Mayor Adams is under pressure to modify his subway safety plan after a transit officer was assaulted on the first day of solo patrols. JohnBDias has the details:
is under pressure to modify his subway safety plan after a transit officer was attacked at a Brooklyn subway station on the first day of solo patrols. laid out his plan for solo patrols
"Solo train patrol represents an additional layer, another step in one of our key objectives since the start of this year with the subway safety plan to focus on uniform train patrols, to expand our presence, increase our visibility in the subways and on the trains to both keep people safe," said NYPD Transit Chief Jason Wilcox.
Investigators say the officer was patrolling solo when he told a 24-year-old man to stop smoking on the platform. It was just last week Adams said patrolling in pairs or groups would mostly end, except for larger stations like 34th Street. Instead, cops would be solo.
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