NYT: National Guard and State Police Will Patrol the Subways and Check Bags

[China]

National Guard and State Police Will Patrol the Subways and Check Bags

 

Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Wednesday that she would deploy National Guard soldiers and State Police officers to the New York City subway system, where they will patrol platforms and help check bags.

 

Ms. Hochul said a large show of force in the system, which is operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a state agency, would help commuters and visitors to the city feel safe.

 

Additional law enforcement officers would add to an already large presence in the subways, where Mayor Eric Adams ordered an additional 1,000 officers in February following a 45 percent spike in crime in January compared with the same time last year.

 

Ms. Hochul said she would deploy 1,000 members of the authority, the State Police and the National Guard to “conduct bag checks in the city’s busiest stations.”

 

“These brazen heinous attacks on our subway system will not be tolerated,” Ms. Hochul said during a news conference, referring to a number of recent high-profile assaults.

 

There will be 750 members of the New York National Guard and an additional 250 personnel from the State Police and the M.T.A.

 

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[Skins24]

Only a matter of time

 

[TradeTheBeal!]

Hey, whatever happened to the guy who strangled the MJ impersonator on the subway?

[China]

Governor Tells NYC Subway Riders Who Refuse Bag Searches to ‘Go Home’

 

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday that people who refuse to submit to random bag searches at New York City subway stations should find some other way of getting around the metropolis.

 

Speaking the day after she announced that National Guard troops would be sent to boost security on the subway amid a string of recent violent crimes, Hochul was asked in a WNYW interview what those who don’t want law enforcement rifling through their belongings should do. “Then go home,” she answered bluntly. “We’re not going to search you—you can say no. But you’re not taking the subway.”

 

Hochul was grilled about the five-point plan she unveiled Wednesday in an effort to address bloodshed in the subway. The scheme involves sending 750 members of the New York National Guard to the busiest stations on the network to carry out bag checks—measures that Hochul says are necessary to stem the violence that has “shaken the security of New Yorkers.”

 

“If people are feeling unsafe and won’t come, then I have to do something about it,” she said Thursday.

 

She cited last week’s case of a “subway conductor with his throat slashed” as being among the recent “fever” of violence that has broken out that she’s attempting to address. (The conductor survived thanks to a doctor on board the train who rushed to his aid.) She also referenced another case of an MTA conductor being struck in the head with a glass bottle in a separate unprovoked attack just hours after Hochul announced her plan to combat crime on the subway.

 

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[Xameil]

And people wonder why the Upstate NY people want to break away from NYC.

[Larry]

5 hours ago, China said:

Governor Tells NYC Subway Riders Who Refuse Bag Searches to ‘Go Home’

 

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday that people who refuse to submit to random bag searches at New York City subway stations should find some other way of getting around the metropolis.

 

Speaking the day after she announced that National Guard troops would be sent to boost security on the subway amid a string of recent violent crimes, Hochul was asked in a WNYW interview what those who don’t want law enforcement rifling through their belongings should do. “Then go home,” she answered bluntly. “We’re not going to search you—you can say no. But you’re not taking the subway.”

 

Hochul was grilled about the five-point plan she unveiled Wednesday in an effort to address bloodshed in the subway. The scheme involves sending 750 members of the New York National Guard to the busiest stations on the network to carry out bag checks—measures that Hochul says are necessary to stem the violence that has “shaken the security of New Yorkers.”

 

“If people are feeling unsafe and won’t come, then I have to do something about it,” she said Thursday.

 

She cited last week’s case of a “subway conductor with his throat slashed” as being among the recent “fever” of violence that has broken out that she’s attempting to address. (The conductor survived thanks to a doctor on board the train who rushed to his aid.) She also referenced another case of an MTA conductor being struck in the head with a glass bottle in a separate unprovoked attack just hours after Hochul announced her plan to combat crime on the subway.

 

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If they don't like it, then they should move their ass to some place where searches require probable cause.  

 

[PokerPacker]

I guess I don't need to visit NYC.

[CousinsCowgirl84]

2 minutes ago, PokerPacker said:

I guess I don't need to visit NYC.

It smells.

[Renegade7]

NYC looks desperate and blew right past probable cause in am attempt to show that they were doing something about this.

 

You've made your point, but you better be doing some root cause analysis to thr original problem, not jus blowing off the new ones you created.

 

I'd be shocked if this lasts more then a couple months...im empathetic to Governor trying to send a message of trying to take safety seriously, but at what cost?

[PokerPacker]

1 hour ago, Renegade7 said:

NYC looks desperate and blew right past probable cause in am attempt to show that they were doing something about this.

 

You've made your point, but you better be doing some root cause analysis to thr original problem, not jus blowing off the new ones you created.

 

I'd be shocked if this lasts more then a couple months...im empathetic to Governor trying to send a message of trying to take safety seriously, but at what cost?

This is the same city that Stop-And-Frisk came from, no?

[Renegade7]

11 minutes ago, PokerPacker said:

This is the same city that Stop-And-Frisk came from, no?

 

I'm not naive to this...this feels different in that we're talking about being underground and in extremely isolated situations compared walking down the street (where most of the stop of frisk complaints came from).

 

I'm not so much defending this as I am empathic, this sounds short-term and something DC would never have the balls to do despite losing control of an entire generation of young folk undoing all the hardwork to revilative the city since Wizards moved to DC.

 

NYC has figure out another way to achieve their goal of increasing security in their subway system.