NYC transit heads ask for more cops in subways following string of attacks.
Hundreds of additional law enforcement officers have flooded the New York City subway system to protect straphangers amid a surge in violent crimes in transit – as Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it’s up to Big Apple officials to figure it out.
New York Police Department Chief of Transit Kathleen O’Reilly announced Tuesday the department would deploy more than 100 additional officers than previously planned, with 644 total cops being assigned to the subway system amid safety concerns following a terrifying string of attacks, officials said. We are able to achieve this through overtime, deployment of officers normally assigned to administrative duties and re-assignment of other non-transit officers, she said during a Tuesday morning press conference, according to the New York Post.
A homeless, mentally-ill Jamaican woman was brutally stabbed to death, reportedly by a deranged man on a train in Manhattan, New York in the United States on Saturday.
New York’s top cop said an additional 500 cops have already been put into the city’s subway system and doesn’t expect any more officers will be sent underground anytime soon.