Hochul, Adams plan to boost cops, surveillance in NYC subways to fight skyrocketing crime
By Valentina Jaramillo and
Rich Calder
October 22, 2022 3:21pm
Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams said Saturday they will flood the city’s crime-ravaged subway system with more cops and ramp up the installation of additional surveillance cameras.
Their “Cops, Cameras, Care” initiative — announced Saturday at Grand Central Terminal just over two weeks before Hochul tries to retain her seat on Election Day – includes the state-run MTA Police Department and the NYPD joining forces to add 1,200 extra overtime shifts daily to watch over the subway system.
This, they said, would translate into about 10,000 extra hours of cops patrolling subways and that New Yorkers would soon see officers covering subway platforms on extended tours daily in at least 300 stations during peak hours.
“I will continue to use the resources of the State of New York to bring this violence to an end,” said Hochul, who failed to provide any cost estimates or say when much of the plan would be rolled out.
Instead, she said the state would help the city “defray” overtime costs through its public emergency safety fund “in the short term” and then look for dedicated sources to pay for the extra police presence moving ahead.
Hochul and Adams also said they’d be creating new 25-bed inpatient units at two psychiatric centers to help get seriously mentally ill people who are homeless out of the subway system and to shelter. The first will launch Nov. 1 at Manhattan Psychiatric Center.
MTA police, NYPD cops and other first responders will also receive training on how best to transport the mentally ill from subways to psychiatric care, they said.
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