Posted on 02/21/2024 7:31:07 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Subway crime skyrocketed in the first two months of 2024, rising by nearly 20% compared to this time last year — and driven by big increases in grand larcenies, felony assaults and robberies, according to newly-released NYPD statistics.
Mayor Eric Adams said the NYPD would quickly move to 12-hour tours to try to halt the burgeoning crime wave, which he blamed on the city’s rollback of its so-called subway safety plan that flooded the underground with cops in 2022.
“We saw amazing results,” Adams said during Tuesday comments at City Hall. “Increasing the number of police officers in a subway was very visible, that whole ‘omnipresent’ concept and theme. We had to scale back after the money ran out.”
He added: “We still want [more] visibility, moving officers walking through the trains, being at the platforms [and] being able to talk to people and identify where the crime is actually taking place.”
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Hmmmmm....
More Constables On Patrol (COPS) ends up
with less crime! What an amazing concept!
Are illegal immigrants roaming NYC being given Trans Passes for free bus and subway fares?
“subway crime up due to lack of prosecutions” there...fixed it.
...but there's plenty of money to hand out debit cards to the illegals, who then turn around and beat the shit out of your police officers. What a great plan..NOT!
I just do not see the logic of taking away money from police and giving it to the illegals...help me please...
LIBERALISM is a mental disorder! NYC has again become a hellhole after years of Demonrat administrations.
One suspects that the 20 percent figure just might be a low ball. Talk to any retired LEO. Certain big cites are experts at not reporting all crime, especially violent crime. Also, if some jurisdictions don't charge or charge appropriately when they should, some LEOs might be reluctant to arrest.
Just my guesses, corrections invited. I don't go to NY.
Hmm, what could possibly have changed in NYC the past few months?
“Increasing the number of police officers in a subway was very visible”
And now we have Venezuelan illegal invaders to beat up the uniformed cops so the ferals are free to terrorize the subway systems.
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