Sometimes you just have to go with the basics. Mayor Eric Adams’ Subway Safety Plan — which is turning a year old — only began to yield results after City Hall flooded the system …
Sometimes you just have to go with the basics.
In January, three months into the surge, the number of major felonies dropped by 30 percent compared to the same month in 2022 even as ridership jumped from roughly 2.1 million to 3.1 million riders dailyCrime stats obtained by The Post show that the crime declines continued in February as the NYPD recorded 170 major felonies on the subways in this month. That’s down from 180 major felonies over the same time period in 2022 — even with a million extra riders.
The rollout followed a slew of high profile attacks on the subway, including the shoving death of Michelle Go, which garnered national headlines.in the sweeping plan was the city’s effort to deploy 30 new teams of cops, social workers and nurses underground to work with homeless New Yorkers living in stations and on the trains.
It does not appear that city officials ever publicly disclosed that it nixed the high profile onboard outreach effort. “We knew it would take time to build trust with this vulnerable population, and I’m proud that, one year into this work, we have successfully connected more than 4,000 people facing homelessness with shelter and the assistance they deserve,” he added.
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