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So much for your safer subways, Eric! Horrifying footage shows woman being kicked down NYC station stairs by robber who smashed her repeatedly in the head with a HAMMER - days after Mayor introduced police crackdown on city transport
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - A robber kicked a 57-year-old woman down the stairs and bashed her head repeatedly with a hammer at the Queens Plaza subway station
- A camera captured the moment the suspect, walking with a cane, assaulted the woman and struck her in the head 13 times in an attempt to steal her purse
- The attack comes days after NYC Mayor Eric Adams vowed to crackdown on subway crime and deployed 1,000 additional officers to the transit system
- Subway stabbings and slashings have spiked 29 percent in the last last year, with 182 incidents compared to 141 in 2020
- So far in 2022, stabbings have been up 35 percent from the same time last year
True scale of homeless crisis on NYC's subway revealed: Transit officials found 350 people living in encampments in 29 tunnels and 89 stations
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - The Metropolitan Transportation Agency (MTA) said there are 350 people living in the subway system across 29 tunnels and 89 stations
- The MTA's Track Trespass Task Force reported the encampments to police and removed them from the subway system
- 'We never leave an encampment in place. As soon as we identify an encampment, those people are immediately removed,' a MTA spokesperson said
- The task force covered 650 miles of track and surveyed 472 stations in 12 hours between February 2 and 3
- Removal of the homeless from the subway system is a part of NYC Mayor Eric Adams' Subway Safety Plan, which went into effect this week
- Adams, who admitted the subways weren't safe, said New Yorkers fear the system and he was going to make sure that 'fear is not New York's reality'
- The MTA will conduct 'regularly scheduled' checks of the system, an official said
- Adams' plan will also attack fare evasion and ups other public safety measures
- He said: 'No more just doing whatever you want. Those days are over. Swipe your MetroCard, ride the system, get off at your destination'
- Crime is also up in the city, with transit crimes up 60 percent and overall crime up almost 50 percent
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-02-26 |
