AerialPerspective Works/iStockBy MARLENE LENTHANG, ABC News (NEW YORK) More than 600 New York City uniformed police officers are being deployed to patrol the subway system in the wake of last week's deadly stabbings.Two people were killed and four were injured in a rash of stabbing attacks over the weekend. All of the victims appeared to be homeless.Transit Chief Kathleen O'Reilly said 644 officers will patrol platforms, inspect trains, secure entryways and ride in subway cars for the "foreseeable future."But homeless advocates argued the heavy police presence won't protect vagrants in need of shelter."Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo need to respond not with more stigmatization and callousness toward people without homes, or heavy-handed police removals, but with real and immediate access to housing for unsheltered New Yorkers," Giselle Routhier, policy director at the Coalition for the Homeless in New York, told ABC News.She pointed out that off
The NYPD on Tuesday announced it will be sending an additional 644 officers to its subway patrol following a series of attacks within the city’s transit system.
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