The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has recently called for more police officers to keep the subway safe, but Mayor Michael White said on his TV show that he didn’t see the subway unsafe and that MTA executives were intimidating.
On Friday, Mayor White on WNYC, host Brian Lehrer told him that the MTA report indicated that major crimes in the subway have decreased, with at least 300 attacks this year compared to 380 at the same time last year; however, now that daily ridership has decreased by more than 3 million people, the frequency of attacks on each passenger will increase significantly. The MTA says more police officers are needed, but you, the mayor, think that is enough.
Brian Lehrer went on to say that the New York City subway had recently seen another violent crime in which an assailant slashed a subway worker in the face with a box cutter and a conductor was knocked unconscious while advising a passenger; and asked Whitehouse whether he would change his mind that the subway already had enough police. White denied this and accused the MTA leadership of intimidation.
White said he had already sent more than 600 police officers into the subway to maintain security, and that this policy was done at the direction of Governor Cuomo, and that “the MTA leadership is intimidating people.”
“I’ve never seen anything like it.” Whitehouse said, “There are people who constantly say it’s not safe when it’s safe. I’ve ridden the subway, a lot of people in my life ride the subway, and it’s absolutely safe.” And that the more people ride the subway, the more it will really help it become safer.
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