new York transit crime rose by more than 200 percent in the first week of repression by Mayor Eric Adams against crime in the city’s subway system, compared to the same period last year.
The city reported 55 transit crimes from February 21 to February 27, more than three times more than the 18 recorded in the same period in 2021 – a jump of 205.6 percent, according to statistics from the New York Police Department (NYPD), published on wednesday.
In February, crime in the city’s transport system also increased significantly, by 72.4% in the last 28-day period, which began on January 31, compared to last year.
Transit crime increased by a similar 72.8 percent year-on-year, according to data, with 375 incidents reported as of February 27, compared with 217 in the same period in 2021.
The alarming statistics come after the recent swearing-in of Adams to clean up the criminal subway system, amid a series of reports of cuts, attacks and even killings on platforms and stations across the city.
The city reported 55 transit crimes from February 21 to February 27, more than three times the 18 recorded in the same period in 2021 – a jump of 205.6 percent, according to statistics from the New York Police Department (NYPD), published on Wednesday
The initiative for Adam’s subway safety plan, announced by the mayor just two weeks ago on February 17th, sent 1,000 additional staff, as well as teams of health workers, into the city’s complex underground network to deal with the influx of crime.
– No more smoking. No more drugs. No more sleeping. You will no longer have barbecues in the subway system. No more just doing what you want, “Adam told a news conference, announcing the plan with New York Governor Katie Hochul.
“Those days are over.” Drag your MetroCard. Drive the system. Get off at your destination.
New York Mayor Eric Adams announced a new initiative for a subway safety plan on Friday as a way to curb crime and violence in the city’s transportation system. So far, statistics show that it has largely failed
Gov. Katie Hochul joined Adams at a news conference on Feb. 17, where she said the state is investing more than $ 39 billion in beds to meet New York’s mental health needs, including 1,100 beds for the city. Many attribute the rise in subway crime to the closure of former mayor Bill Blasio’s mental health facilities
But the plan to implement Adams, which did not take effect on Feb. 21 – the day New York City Police Crime Data began this week – has so far failed mercifully, according to statistics, with a series of attacks, including on a police officer. the city scientist with a hammer and another where an attacker smears human feces on a victim.
Immediately on the day the program began, New York City police reported two attacks on the subway.
The attacks took place just hours after Adams and Hochul’s address.
In one case, a 58-year-old man was arrested for allegedly chasing another man with an ax around 12:30 a.m. at a subway station in Brooklyn, where police were stationed.
Pictured: Nina Rothschild, a 58-year-old scientist from the New York Department of Health, who was kicked up the stairs and hit her head repeatedly with a hammer. On Thursday, the woman was returning home when she was kicked down the stairs of a metro station in Queens and attacked
The disgusting surveillance video shows a robber kicking Dr. Nina Rothschild down the stairs and hitting her repeatedly on the head with a hammer, breaking her skull days after Mayor Eric Adams vowed to quell violence in the transit system.
An observation video from East 241st Street Subway Station in the Bronx shows a man attacking an unsuspecting woman sitting on a bench on February 21.
The suspect threw himself at the 43-year-old victim and put a plastic bag with human feces in her face.
The riot attack was carried out without visible provocation during the evening rush hour
During his detention, it was established that the suspect was carrying a screwdriver and a knife, police said.
What does the Adams Subway Safety Plan for New York look like?
The mayor’s plan outlines how the Adams administration, in partnership with the MTA and other government agencies, will address these concurrent challenges to New York’s subway systems. Investing in people will provide immediate support and protection to New Yorkers, while investing in places such as accommodation centers, safe havens, stabilizing beds and wellness vans for the homeless, and policy changes at the local, state and federal levels will provide medium-term and long-term solutions. They include:
- Deploy up to 30 joint response teams bringing together DHS, the Department of Health and Mental Health, the NYPD and community providers in high-demand locations across the city
- Training NYPD staff in the city’s subway system to enforce the rules of conduct of the MTA and the New York City Transit Authority in a fair and transparent manner
- Expanding the B-HEARD Behavioral Health Emergency Team to six new areas, more than doubling the areas covered to 11. These teams will expand the already successful pilot response to non-violent 911 mental health calls with mental health professionals
- Incorporate medical services into DHS sites serving vulnerable homeless people. DHS ‘Extended Safe Asylum Programs and Stabilizing Beds will offer on-site physical and behavioral health care to meet customer needs immediately
- Immediate improvement of inter-government coordination with weekly meetings of the “Working Group on Improved Work”, which brings together senior leaders from 13 city and state agencies for rapid problem solving
- Creating new Drop-in Centers to provide people with an immediate way to get indoors, and exploring the possibility of locating Drop-in Centers near key metro stations for people to go directly from trains and platforms to safe spaces
- Simplifying the process of accommodation in a maintenance home and reducing the amount of documents required to prove eligibility
- Calls on the state government to expand resources for psychiatric beds and amend Kendra’s law to improve the provision of mental health care for New Yorkers in assisted outpatient care
- Requirement – instead of asking – everyone to leave the train and the station at the end of the line
About two hours later, a homeless man hit a woman in the face with a metal pipe aboard a subway train in the Bronx, cops said.
The woman, who refused medical help, told officers that the man had attacked after asking her to stop talking to a friend. No arrest was made in this case.
More than 50 incidents followed during the rest of February, according to statistics.
However, one of the most exciting headlines occurred on Monday when a woman waiting for a train at the Bronx subway station was approached by a stranger who “hit her in the face and back of the head with human feces,” police said.
Frank Abroqua, 37, was arrested on February 28th in connection with a stomach incident – which was recorded on a security video – and charged with violent touching, threatening behavior and harassment.
A 58-year-old New York City health scientist was returning home on Thursday when she was kicked down the stairs in Queens subway station and hit in the head with a hammer.
A disgusting surveillance video shows a thief kicking Dr. Nina Rothschild down the stairs and hitting her repeatedly on the head with a hammer, breaking her skull days after Mayor Eric Adams vowed to quell violence in the transit system.
Rothschild’s brother, Gerson, is also a scientist in Upper Manhattan at Columbia University and was able to speak with his sister on Friday as she recovers from surgery. She remains critically ill.
There have also been a number of subway incidents over the weekend.
A man was shot in the chest during a dispute at a Brooklyn subway station around 10pm on Sunday, police said and was rushed to a nearby hospital. He is expected to survive.
What’s more, the rush of incidents doesn’t seem to have stopped this week, the second since Adams’ new crackdown, with three teenagers and a man stabbed Tuesday, possibly during a battle, at another Brooklyn subway station.
Many blame the wave of crime for the ongoing effects of the pandemic, complicated by the closure of mental health facilities under former Mayor Bill de Blasio, as well as fewer cops over the pandemic, vaccine mandates and a smaller movement-driven police budget. Defund the Police in 2020
Joseph Jacalone, a crime intelligence expert, former cop and professor at the City College of Criminal Justice, John Jay, told Fox News that the wave of subway crime portends the demise of a city “trying to get back on its feet” after “The two big C’s – COVID and crime.
“If you think people will want to come back after COVID, maybe,” Jacalone said at the exit.
“But now you’re dealing with a crime problem – especially the subway, which is the lifeblood of New York – if people are afraid to enter the subways. And right now, when you look at those numbers, there’s some reason to be hesitant.