New York City’s subway has a reputation for relatively high crime rates and even the occasional murder. Now, numbers show a significant improvement in subway crime: In February 2024, crime dropped by 17% after the city deployed 1,000 additional police officers. New York City’s subway system...
ON APRIL 12TH a gunman set off a smoke canister and shot ten people on a tran as it pulled into a Brooklyn subway station during the morning rush hour. The shooting will add to fears that the subway and city are unsafe. Since January, transit crime is up by 68% compared with the ...
Based on data from studies of subway crime in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, a crime exposure scenario for the typical transit user is presented. The typical user of a rapid transit system goes through a stereotyped sequence of the events in riding from origin to destination, and at...
(Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York; Editing by Aurora Ellis) Copyright 2022 Thomson Reuters. Tags: United States, crime, New York City Read More Galleries America 2024 The Best Political Cartoons on Joe Biden Photos Picturing This Week in History Photos Photos You Should See - D...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City subway driver was killed and several other people were injured early Friday in a fire on a train that is being investigated as a crime, officials said. Fires were reported at three other stations nearby at the same time, police said. ...
Subway shooting heightens NYC mayor’s focus on rising crime Mayor Eric Adams, a former New York City police captain, took office this year with a central focus on making the city feel safe and trying to return it to some sense of normalcy post-pandemic. April 15, 2022 ...
Investigators do not believe the suspect and the victim knew each other, and the suspect's motivation is still under investigation. The shocking crime captured widespread attention, highlighting the ongoing problems with crime i...
The theft of the train unfolded amid the deployment of additional police officersto the nation's largest subway systemto combat a surge in crime. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul even deployed National Guard troops as part of a five-point plan to protect subway riders. ...
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS-8477. MORE: National Guard to be deployed in New York City subway in crime crackdown: Governor Earlier this month, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that New York Na...
New York City Transit (NYCT) has a comprehensive framework for assessing, managing, andcombating subway fare evasion. The automated fare collection (AFC) system, implemented1994~97, features lessons learned from field trials of prototypes specifically designed to limitfare abuse. Subway crime has ...