Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Year : 2, Issue: 20
Pix 11: Police should patrol every New York City subway train during the overnight hours, Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed during her State of the State address Tuesday.
The state will help pay for two police officers on every subway train from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. for the next six months, Hochul said.
“We have to stop the chaos,” Hochul said.
Hochul said she will work with the city to implement the temporary overnight patrols.
In March, Hochul announced the National Guard would patrol the New York City Subway system, and in December, added 250 more National Guard members.
Earlier this month the city announced police officers would be deployed to the 50 subway stations where most crimes occur, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced.
Major crime in the transit system decreased for a second straight year in 2024, down 5.4% compared to 2023, according to Tisch. But some high-profile crimes have caught the city’s attention in recent months, including a woman being burned to death on a Brooklyn subway in late December.
