NYPD officials say they will deploy 800 more officers into the subway to stop fare evasion

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-officials-say-they-will-deploy-800-more-officers-into-the-subway-to-stop-fare-jumpers

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In the wake of four subway shootings this year, NYPD officials said they will deploy 800 additional plain clothes and uniformed officers to crack down on fare evasion over the next five days. They said the strategy will help reduce crime in the subway because people who commit crimes often don’t pay their fare.

"The tone of law and order must start at the fare gates," NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper said at a Monday news conference at the 125th Street subway station in Harlem.

The latest surge in officers comes weeks after Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered 750 National Guard soldiers to flood the subway system alongside the MTA and state police to help the NYPD conduct bag checks. Subway crime so far this year is up 7% over the same period in 2023, according to NYPD data. The three murders on the subway system so far this year put the city on track to surpass 2023’s total of five murders.

Police have arrested 1,700 New Yorkers for fare evasion so far this year, and issued summonses to 28,000 others, Kemper said.

On TOP of the National Guard? lol, lmao

[Tripper11]

1. Is this the out of control rampant crime TSF keeps talking about?

Cause if the crime is on the streets, what the hell are the cops going underground for??

[kelly1mm]

4. Did you miss the 1st line of the story where it talks about 4 subway shootings already this year? nt

[justaprogressive]

2. I'm sure the poor are all saying

Thank goodness!

That's 800 police off the street who won't be arbitrarily stop'n'frisk & harassing us...

[PJMcK]

3. Good

I pay my fare.

It pisses me off when I see turnstile jumpers.

Bust ‘em. There’s no excuse and the cheaters are ripping off the rest of us who pay our fare.

[maxrandb]

5. How about spare a couple for around T***p Tower?

Seems a shit-ton more criming going on there.

I get it. I mean, what is sexual assault and hundreds of millions in fraud, when compared to $2 Fare Jumping?

This is why millions of Americans have lost respect for law enforcement and our judicial system.

[Polybius]

7. $2.90

Very expensive here.

[maxrandb]

6. Can't I just get an appeal court to lower my fare?

[brooklynite]

8. The Appeals Court didn't lower Trump's penalty...but you knew that.

Bonding is only a temporary hold.