Mayor Eric Adams (left) and NYPD Transit Chief Joseph Gulotta (proper) element plan to deploy 300 NYPD officers on subways in a single day. Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.
Picture by Lloyd Mitchell
Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday detailed how the NYPD will implement a brand new technique to put two uniformed officers on each subway automobile working in a single day — an initiative first introduced in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s State of the State tackle final week.
“This is not a new conversation about subway safety and how we get it under control,” Adams mentioned. “Thanks to our partnership with the governor, there will be two uniformed officers assigned to each train between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m.”
Adams mentioned the brand new deployment started with 100 officers on Monday evening and can scale as much as 300 officers within the coming weeks.
Two NYPD officers at a subway turnstile.Picture by Dean Moses
NYPD Transit Chief Joseph Gulotta mentioned that when the pair of cops are on the practice, the conductor will announce their presence to all the passengers. He added that they might get off and transfer to the subsequent automobile at every cease.
Gulotta mentioned the primary 100 officers are being deployed on the A, G, J, and L traces.
The chief mentioned the officers would trip and never examine the trains, that means they might not disrupt service typically. Nevertheless, officers might have to carry up trains for inspections in the event that they examine a specific matter.
“Whatever we have to do to make sure people are safe, we’re going to implement,” Adams mentioned. “When officers walk through and do an inspection, it’s not just a routine inspection, it is also [that] the officers may be looking for someone, they may have gotten calls over their radio, may be walking through.”
The 300 cops contained in the practice automobiles will be a part of one other 750 officers Hochul pledged to patrol station platforms all through the system.
However the deployment comes with a hefty price ticket. It is going to be paid for by way of $77 million in state funds to cowl the extra NYPD extra time wanted for the surge.
Throughout his preliminary funds rollout for the approaching fiscal 12 months final Thursday, Adams mentioned he was keen to pay any worth to maintain the subways secure.
“I’m going to use every dollar that’s needed to keep this city safe; that’s my North Star,” Adams mentioned on the time. “If we have to use overtime to do it, we’re going to use overtime to do it.”
Adams and Hochul have each positioned a renewed emphasis on combating subway crime and making the transit system really feel safer amid a latest spate of high-profile violent incidents on the transit system.
These embody a homeless lady being burned alive on a Brooklyn F practice late final 12 months and a person being stabbed on a Manhattan 2 practice on New Yr’s Day.
