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 position 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 handle final week.
“This is not a new conversation about subway safety and how we get it under control,” Adams stated. “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 stated 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 stated that after the pair of cops are on the prepare, the conductor will announce their presence to the entire passengers. He added that they might get off and transfer to the following automobile at every cease.
Gulotta stated the primary 100 officers are being deployed on the A, G, J, and L traces.
The chief stated the officers would journey and never examine the trains, which means they might not disrupt service generally. Nonetheless, officers may have to carry up trains for inspections in the event that they examine a selected matter.
“Whatever we have to do to make sure people are safe, we’re going to implement,” Adams stated. “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 prepare 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 will likely be paid for via $77 million in state funds to cowl the extra NYPD time beyond regulation wanted for the surge.
Throughout his preliminary finances rollout for the approaching fiscal 12 months final Thursday, Adams stated he was prepared to pay any value 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 stated 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 current spate of high-profile violent incidents on the transit system.
These embody a homeless lady being burned alive on a Brooklyn F prepare late final 12 months and a person being stabbed on a Manhattan 2 prepare on New Yr’s Day.
