The detective who was assaulted had told the 24-year-old suspect, Alex Eremin, to put out a cigarette he was smoking on the southbound platform on Tuesday night. Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul held their first joint appearance since the former took office Thursday to announce a slate of measures to combat crime in the New York City subways and increase outreach to those experiencing homelessness. We’re not going to be so rigid that we’re not going to adjust to accomplish the task that we need.” Paul Martinka New York Mayor Eric Adams explained the reasoning behind the solo patrol tweak. The new policy will allow NYPD officers to feel safer while patrolling. “We came with a real meeting of the minds of let’s have the separate solo patrol stay in eyesight of each other,” Adams said, adding, “This would allow the immediate backup with the communications that we currently have. “And the conversation was really, ‘how do we reach the goal that we want?’ How do we get the omnipresence and how do we make sure that our officers are safe?” Adams said at an unrelated press conference. Mayor Eric Adams, who had touted original plan, said Wednesday that the adjustment was made after he spoke with Detectives’ Endowment Association leader Paul DiGiacomo and the head of the PBA, Patrick Lynch, late Tuesday. “This will increase visibility of police officers looking out for the riding public while at the same time looking out for each other,” the spokesperson said. “We are continuing with the solo patrol concept by spreading officers out on posts but with the caveat that they be within sight of one another,” an NYPD spokesperson said in a statement. The adjustment came just two days into the controversial initiative - and less than 24 hours after a detective was assaulted while patrolling the Pennsylvania Avenue station in Brooklyn on his own Tuesday night. The NYPD’s new solo transit patrol policy has already been updated, officials announced Wednesday, as officers will now be able to remain within eyesight of each other while working the city’s subway stations. We’re going to add hundreds of daily visual inspections from existing police manpower, Adams said at the Jan. Man leaps to death in front of Port Authority subway train: NYPD Mayor Adams vowed to make NYPD police officers an omnipresence on subway trains, using Transit Bureau cops and deploying more above-ground Boys in Blue from the city’s 77 police precincts.
NYC robbery suspect slips between subway cars, is killed in escape bid How a ‘mistake in judgement’ cost the MTA $3M “Immediately when you see a dangerous person there, mental health professionals will be deployed and that person will receive the proper care and removed from our subway system.All aboard! More than 3.7M ride NYC subway in single day, most since COVID “We should not wait for someone to carry out a dangerous action when we know they are on the station in the first place,” Adams said on Jan. Mayoral spokesperson Charles Lutvak referred a request for comment to statements Adams made Sunday on CNN, when hizzoner said he wants police to be a “visible presence” on the subways and that cops and social workers must be “proactive and not just reactive.” “The state needs to invest in more affordable, more frequent service to make transit as attractive as possible to as many people as possible, because that will do a lasting difference in making it safer.” “The MTA has been dealing with crew shortages on top of crew shortages that have meant that trains are less frequent,” Pearlstein said. The transit booster also urged the MTA to focus on bettering service to bring back commuters, as the agency only on Monday was able to reactivate its last line following more than three weeks of suspensions due to crews calling out sick en masse amid the COVID-19 Omicron surge. “Over the long haul, what I think we’ll see is that it’s only with genuine commitments and investments in housing and health care that will actually reduce the numbers of people living in the subway.” “As we saw tragically in Times Square, the mere presence of police unfortunately cannot stop the worst from taking place,” said Danny Pearlstein of Riders Alliance. One rider advocate said that increasing police forces won’t solve the many issues plaguing the subways, noting that the current deployment amounts to nearly 10% of the NYPD’s 36,000-strong force for less than 2% of city crimes and that there were two officers on the platform when Go was pushed to her death. Police officials and politicians have acknowledged that transit crime only makes up 1.7% of citywide figures, but have said they wanted to end the “perception of fear” in order to lure more straphangers back.
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