New York Subway is safe, but needs more cops

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority stated that despite recent violent incidents in the New York subway, it is safe.

The Acting President of the MTA, Sarah Feinberg He commented on Saturday that it is safe to take the subway, however he insisted on the institution’s request for the presence of more officials.

“The metro network is safe, but, as we have been saying for more than two years, we are concerned about the increase in certain crimes and the significant lack of assistance in mental health for those clearly suffering a crisis”Feinberg stated, as detailed by The New York Post.

“The City Council is responsible for policing the metro system and providing social and mental health services. We have been asking the City Council and the NYPD for years to increase those resources. “

The MTA asked the NYPD to allocate 1,500 more police officers to the transportation system after the murders.

After registering a series of crimes in the subway of New York the weekend, the Police Department of the city announced that it will reinforce the surveillance with hundreds of additional agents.

As detailed by The New York Post, this figure includes 331 agents of the Traffic Office and 313 of the Patrol Office, as stated by the Chief of Traffic of the New York Police Department, Kathleen O’Reilly, at a morning press conference. “The agents who come from the patrol will be dedicated to 68 stations”, He said.

MTA authorities called on NYPD to flood the subway with 1,000 additional police officers. Both the president, Pat Foye, and the interim president of Transit, Sarah Feinberg, recently indicated that the number of agents previously anticipated, is not sufficient, indicó The Daily News.

For the institution, the recent acts of violence have been caused by people with mental health problems.

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Violent events flooded the New York subway

Two people died and two others were injured in a “horrible” series of stabbings on a New York subway line weeks ago, the Brooklyn Borough President told NBC New York.

The police were called to a station Fort Washington around 11:20 a.m. last Friday and found a 67-year-old man who suffered stab wounds, authorities said at a press conference on Saturday afternoon, according to the outlet.

The Chief of Transit, Kathleen O’Reilly, said the victim had been stabbed by an unidentified man and was taken to hospital for treatment.

On Friday night, shortly before 11:30 p.m., the police received another call at the station Far Rockaway and found a man on the train with stab wounds to the neck and body. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to O’Reilly.

Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President, reported that the stabbings come amid a surge in other violent crime on the city’s subways.

“The perpetrators of this violence often suffer from some form of serious mental illness, and their targets are often some of the most vulnerable New Yorkers, including our homeless neighbors who seek the subway for refuge during the winter months ”, the official said in a detailed statement on the portal.

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