New York City state plan to make subway system safer with cops cameras and care leaders say Eric Adams - Kathy Hochul HEAD TOPICS
New York City state plan to make subway system safer with cops cameras and care leaders say
10/23/2022 3:15:00 AM The joint city\ state initiative is called ' Cops Cameras Care '
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After a string of attacks in the subway system in just the past week, New York City and the state unveiled a new plan Saturday to fight crime on city transit. As DaveCarlinTV reports, it includes surging more officers throughout the system. The joint city\/state initiative is called 'Cops, Cameras, Care.' NEW YORK-- After a string of attacks in the subway system in just the past week, New York City and the state unveiled a new plan Saturday to fight crime on city transit.It includes surging more officers throughout the system.As CBS2's Dave Carlin reports, the subway crime-fighting plan has three parts -- adding more cops, installing more cameras and placing those with mental health problems at psychiatric centers. Expect to see more uniformed officers patrolling subways on moving trains. That's a promise from the MTA, Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD in response to subway riders who are scared and fed up."It's tragic. It's tragic," one rider said. Read more:
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San Diego Police released body camera footage showing the moment officers shot and killed an armed man Tuesday, the sheriff’s department released the names of the two people involved in a fight Thursday, and0 Rady Children’s Hospital says there have been hundreds of RSV cases in the county. Here is San Diego News Daily for Oct. 22, 2022. Read more >> DaveCarlinTV Ok let’s see 👀 how this plan 😏is gonna work. Arrest and keep them locked 🔒 down. They want to act like animals and play crazy then keep them locked 🔒 till they learn how to take their medication and act right. Am sick of these bums. 😡. Tired citizen 🔒😡 Gov. Hochul, Mayor Adams unveil plan to keep subway system safe: Cops, cameras and careMayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a new plan Saturday to increase safety across the New York City transit system in the wake of nine subway deaths so far this year. Adams, Hochul Dub New Effort to Curb Subway Violence, ‘Cops, Cameras, Care'Faced with mounting pressure over a recent spate of subway violence, Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled a crime fighting plan Saturday they hope will address problems in the New York City transit system. The officials plan to greenlight more than a thousand overtime shifts every day designed specifically to increase the number of uniformed officers on patrol… Wow. The polls have gotten so bad they need to pretend they care about crime. Overtime for cops … this is exactly the reason they are lying about crime data. It’s disgraceful to give in to these intimidation tactics of the police. Hochul, Adams pledge to fight subway crime with more cops, camerasGov. Hochul and Mayor Adams said they would send more MTA and NYPD officers on patrol in the subway, along with installing more surveillance cameras and increasing support for severely mentally ill people. 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This happens when you criminalize cops for a bad apple Let it burn City where George Floyd was killed struggles to recruit copsMinneapolis has struggled to rebuild its police department after hundreds of officers quit in the two years since George Floyd was killed by a city police officer 03:12 NEW YORK -- After a string of attacks in the subway system in just the past week, New York City and the state unveiled a new plan Saturday to fight crime on city transit.The city and the state plan involves adding more police officers, more cameras and more mental health care.MTA to Install Security Cameras in NYC Subway Cars to Deter Crime The two new psychiatric facilities, the first of which is scheduled to be open by Nov.Eric Adams pledged to address the recent increase in crime in the city's subway system. It includes surging more officers throughout the system. As CBS2's Dave Carlin reports, the subway crime-fighting plan has three parts -- adding more cops, installing more cameras and placing those with mental health problems at psychiatric centers."What we're announcing here today is a beefing up police presence on the subway platforms and cars. Expect to see more uniformed officers patrolling subways on moving trains. The state's Office of Mental Health will oversee the treatment program designed to aid people 18 and older who are experiencing homelessness and have severe mental illnesses, Hochul explained. That's a promise from the MTA, Gov. With money from the state's public emergency fund, the NYPD will add 1,200 extra overtime shifts at 300 stations. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD in response to subway riders who are scared and fed up. So far in 2022, nine people have been killed on the city's mass transit systems. "It's tragic. "I think it's important that we do deploy our officers so people do feel safe and hopefully we can deter that behavior or prevent that behavior," said NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell. Already, the governor noted, more than 200 cameras have been added to cars since her announcement last month. It's tragic," one rider said. "They could do a lot better," another rider said. MTA police, NYPD officers and EMTs will now receive more training to better deal with people who are experiencing homelessness and those with mental health issues. Better, according to Adams, means boosting presence with longer workdays for officers, adding 1,200 daily overtime shifts." "Our city must immediately boost pay and improve working conditions in order to recruit and retain enough police officers. "That uniform means a lot. Last month, the MTA and Hochul announced that every subway car will be equipped with two security cameras by 2025. When people see the officer walking through the trains, when people see the officers on the platform," Adams said. Watch the full announcement 47:33 The joint city/state initiative is called"Cops, Cameras, Care. They hope these new measures will help to bring ridership back to pre-pandemic levels. With major felonies up 31 percent, Adams held a meeting of city leaders with a goal of finding long-term solutions." It was announced by Hochul, the incumbent looking to hold on to her seat on Election Day in just over two weeks. She is having the state-run MTA Police Department add officers to the biggest transit hubs to help make subways safer after high-profile crimes one after the other. Share this story. "Violent attacks, muggings, a 15-year-old boy losing his life to violence just a week ago, nine homicides in our subway so far this year, tragic losses of life," Hochul said. Copyright NBC New York. Adding cameras means pushing for them on individual train cars. RELATED STORY: The third component of the plan, care, involves getting severely mentally ill people out of the system and into longer-term inpatient treatment. "New Yorkers need to feel safe," Adams said. Patrick Lynch, President of the Police Benevolent Association, emailed CBS2 a statement saying in part,"This is unsustainable .. . The increased workload is crushing the cops who remain. The answer is not to squeeze them for more forced OT." He goes on to say,"Our city must immediately boost pay and improve working conditions in order to recruit and retain enough police officers. That is the only way to provide real safety in the subway, rather than the illusion of 'omnipresence. '" Among those criticizing the plan for not going far enough is Hochul's Republican opponent in the gubernatorial race, Congressman Lee Zeldin. "It's months late and it's many dollars short, and for the average New Yorker, they know what needs to get done to actually fix this and they're barely even scratching the surface," he said."Why aren't you talking about repealing cashless bail? Why aren't you talking about DAs refusing to do their job?" Some subway riders want long-term solutions but seem to like more cops and more cameras as places to start. "I won't rest and the governor won't rest and our team won't rest until this system is a safe place for all who utilize the system," Adams said. In: .