Back in October, New York City Mayor Eric Adams made a joint announcement with Governor Kathy Hochul regarding a new public safety plan for the Big Apple. Dubbed the “Cops, Cameras and Care” program, they claimed that they would be adding more than one thousand additional police officers to the MTA force patrolling the subways. More surveillance cameras would be installed and they would begin moving most of the homeless out of the tunnels and into shelters. The state would provide a significant chunk of the money needed to make that happen. I’ll confess to having been a bit dubious when they made that announcement. We hear plenty of big talk from New York politicians, but it rarely translates into productive action. But perhaps they actually did something right this time. It was announced yesterday that a significant drop in subway crime rates has been observed over the past few months.Read More
Could it be true? Crime down on NYC subways?
