NYPD deploys 800 more cops to subway to crack down on fare evasions: ‘Key component to our crime-reduction strategy’



The New York Police Department announced Monday plans to deploy another 800 uniformed and undercover officers to the city’s subway system to crack down on fare evasions, the New York Post reported.

NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell stated during a press conference that the department will increase its presence at multiple subway stations over the next five days to prevent fare-beaters in a five-day initiative called “Operation Fare Play.” He claimed the effort will help curb the uptick in violent crimes.

Chell would not reveal which substations the officers would be stationed at but noted that the locations would be selected based on crime levels, Metropolitan Transportation Authority statistics, and community complaints, the Post reported.

According to NYPD Transit Chief Michael Kemper, the MTA and the community feel “blatant fare evasion at the turnstiles” is a “primary” and ongoing issue.

“Our riders should not be subjected to open acts of lawlessness anywhere in our subway system, and that tone of law and order must start at the fare gates,” Kemper said. “Don’t do it. Don’t jump, don’t crawl, don’t come through the gate. Make the right decision.”

Chell noted, “This is not a one-week deal.”

“We’re gonna do it time and time again. We’re not giving the locations ’cause we don’t want people to know,” he stated. “What we want them to know is, ‘Don’t think you can come down here and get a free ride and bring your weapons.”

“There’s no more freebies anymore. You talk about weapons coming down? This is where it stops,” Chell stated.

So far this year, the NYPD has issued 28,000 summonses for fare evasion and 1,700 have been arrested, Kemper reported. Additionally, 20 subway riders were caught with firearms. Eleven of the guns were discovered when police stopped individuals for fare-beating.

Kemper believes the operation will be effective at “correcting behavior and keeping the subway system safe and our riders ultimately safe.”

“Let me be clear: Fare evasion enforcement and turnstile presence is a key component to our crime-reduction strategy. We do that every day. Every day of the year. This is not something new. This week we’re stepping it up,” he added.

MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber stated, “We’re thrilled by the commitment to transit safety demonstrated again and again by Mayor (Eric) Adams and the NYPD.”

A recent Post report found an overall drop in subway crime but an uptick in violent attacks that have caused serious injury. There were 373 felony assaults in 2019, and that number jumped to 570 last year.

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New York deploys National Guard in subway to reduce crime, but is that what it's really about?



It appears woke cities are beginning to acknowledge that their soft-on-crime policies are actually encouraging more crime. Funny how that works.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, for example, has decided to send 750 National Guard troops to New York City’s subways to crack down on the growing violence.

While crime in the subway is up 45% year on year, Glenn Beck doesn’t believe a pseudo-military state is the best solution.

“She says that’s going to help with crime in the subways,” Glenn says, but “there’s another way to do that.”

That other way, of course, is enforcing the laws and jailing criminals, rather than mimicking the stop-and-frisk method.

“So, she sends in 750 uniformed National Guard soldiers with orders to search bags for weapons and other dangerous stuff — so, isn’t that stop and frisk? I think that is,” Glenn says.

In one recent story that illustrates Glenn’s point of enforcing the law and jailing criminals, four people were arrested in connection to three incidents of human remains being found on Long Island.

All four were charged on Wednesday with first degree hindering prosecution, tampering with physical evidence, and concealment of a human corpse. All four pleaded not guilty; however, they have not been charged with the murder of the two victims.

They’re now on unsupervised release.

“Wouldn’t it be better to put the people who are charged with crimes, even grizzly, heinous crimes, into jail, and not let them right back out on the street? I’m just saying, that’s an idea,” Glenn says.

Glenn believes there’s a reason the increase in crime and the real solutions are being ignored — and it’s not mere incompetence.

“This administration is doing nothing but empowering all the people that would love to see us live in chaos,” Glenn says.


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On Wednesday, the Democrat governor mobilized 750 National Guard troops to patrol the violence-beseiged New York City subway.

NYC woman caught on video pushing commuter into moving subway train



Police are searching for a woman who was caught on surveillance video pushing another commuter into a moving subway train in New York City this week.

Authorities said the woman shoved a 42-year-old woman into the northbound train at the 42nd street and 7th avenue station near Times Square about 8:15 a.m. Monday morning, according to WNBC-TV.

The woman, who immediately fled the scene, can be see standing up from a bench and abruptly shoving the woman in the back right as the train began zipping by as a crowd of people stood around them. Investigators said the suspect and the victim did not appear to exchange words before the attack.

Fortunately, the victim did not fall into the tracks. She did, however, smack her face against the side of the car before falling backward onto the platform, investigators noted.

WABC-TV reported that the victim was taken to the hospital with serious injuries to her face and legs.

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Detectives reportedly canvassed the scene and talked to witnesses for clues about the suspect's identity or whereabouts. They hope the surveillance video, which clearly shows the suspect's face, will lead to an arrest.

The New York City Police Department is asking the public to come forward with any information about the suspect. She was last seen wearing a multi-colored bandana, a black shirt, and beige pants. She is believed to be in her 30s.

Witnesses described the harrowing scene as a reminder that subways can be dangerous places and that people need to constantly be aware of their surroundings.

"It looked malicious," commuter Alejandro DeJesus said. "That's scary. That could happen to anybody when you least expect it."

Another commuter said, "This is like what it used to be like in the '80s."

"Do I feel safe? I'm guarded," another added in conversation with WCBS-TV. "When I'm on the subway platform I make sure that I am ready to grab something."

Subway pushings are surprisingly common in New York City. WABC reported that there have been 20 pushings so far in 2021 compared to 17 at this time last year.