The following report is a press release by the office of New York City, Mayor Eric Adams’ desk:
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Edward A. Caban today announced efforts being taken to make the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s (MTA) subway system safer by investing in new technology to detect firearms, as well as invest in more clinicians that will help those suffering from severe mental illness in the nation’s largest subway system.
The city is exploring, and will soon begin piloting, emerging technologies designed to detect weapons carried by travelers into the transit system. In accordance with the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act, the NYPD also published online its Impact and Use Policy for electromagnetic weapons detection systems, starting a mandatory 90-day waiting period before new technology can be tested and used in New York City.
Additionally, Mayor Adams announced that the city will begin hiring clinicians to support the expansion of the Subway Co-Response Outreach Teams (SCOUT), a pilot program launched in partnership with the state and the MTA to connect people with untreated severe mental illness in the subways to mental health treatment and care.
Keeping New Yorkers safe on the subway and maintaining confidence in the system is key to ensuring that New York remains the safest big city in America.
Today’s announcement is the next step in our ongoing efforts to keep dangerous weapons out of our transit system and to provide greater mental health services for New Yorkers in crisis. By kicking off a 90-day waiting period to test electromagnetic weapons detection systems here in New York City and hiring more clinicians for SCOUT, we are showing our administration’s dedication to keeping all New Yorkers safe.
said Mayor Adams.
During the 90-day waiting period, the NYPD will be working to identify companies with proven expertise in weapons detection technology. At the end of the waiting period, a pilot program will be instituted in some subway stations where the NYPD will be able to further evaluate the equipment’s effectiveness.
As of Sunday, March 24, 2024, NYPD officers have seized a total of 450 weapons – including 19 illegal guns – in the New York City transit system this year, compared to 261 weapons – including nine guns – during the same period last year. The NYPD also seized 1,515 weapons in the subway system in 2023, including 1,470 cutting instruments and 45 illegal firearms. That tally was a stark increase from the previous year, when 947 total weapons were seized, including 912 cutting instruments and 35 guns.
Last month, Mayor Adams directed the NYPD to surge an additional 1,000 police officers into the subway system each day to keep help New Yorkers safe. Additionally, earlier this week, the NYPD announced “Operation Fare Play,” an initiative to ensure people pay their fare when entering the subway system by deploying 800 more police officers into the subway system to crack down on fare evasion. Through Sunday, overall crime in the transit system was down nearly 16 percent for the month of March, compared to the same month last year, adding to February’s 15.4 percent month-over-month decrease in crime in the subway system. Since the start of 2024, overall arrests in the subway system are up nearly 56 percent compared to last year, including a 78 percent increase in fare-evasion arrests and a 111 percent jump in gun arrests.
Launched in October 2023, the SCOUT pilot program has operated with two teams in the subways focused on connecting those with untreated severe mental illness with mental health support and long-term care. SCOUT teams are comprised of a clinician and two MTA police officers, and, in the 90 days of operation, the two teams have moved 90 individuals out of the subway system and into care. Earlier this month, Governor Hochul announced a $20 million investment to scale this pilot and bring the total number of SCOUT teams to 10 by the end of 2025. With this investment from the state, the city will begin hiring additional clinicians to support the expansion of SCOUT and reach even more New Yorkers in need of care.
Since the start of my administration, Mayor Adams and I have worked together closely to keep the subways safe for all New Yorkers. This month, I announced a five-point plan to improve safety in the subways, including dedicating $20 million to expand the SCOUT program, which will help more New Yorkers receive the treatment they need. The new technology announced today builds on our existing commitments to place cameras throughout the system and will help law enforcement keep dangerous weapons out of the system.
said New York Governor Kathy Hochul.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Words cannot even describe the hellscape that NYC has become. It has become this total Orwellian nightmare, where the vandals and aliens have all the rights, and those who would dare to protect themselves are the ones hunted like a prey.
[18] They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. [19] Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. Lamentations 4:18-19
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
The WinePress needs your support! If God has laid it on your heart to want to contribute, please prayerfully consider donating to this ministry. If you cannot gift a monetary donation, then please donate your fervent prayers to keep this ministry going! Thank you and may God bless you.
Praise the LORD FOR his judgements they are finally here and we get to witness the LORD’S working hand upon the evils of the Earth.
Because he lives, I, can face tomorrow!
We live in a nightmare where evil is called good and good is called evil. NYC police nor the backward administration cannot protect you from crime, they’ve done a lousy job thus far and have become a thug culture.
Meanwhile more police will leave in droves so NYC can have their military similar to France watching over things. No quality of life for the people of the city; it’s more like a prison hence the movie “Escape from New York”.
Another slaughter zone designated, & a sign & trigger for the ‘initiated’ & the groomed, unstable lower levels…. Potential false flag & large black swan, or lots of little, draining, wearing- them- down ones. But God is not mocked, & the one in the heavens laughs! Psalms 2& 22 KJB.
–
He sees every religious fake & phony of the cults posturing as sheep while wolves, & those Judaizers of today seeking to drag men back under the Law via the cults. They don’t even know what spirit they are of!
–
Watch & pray. Stay close to the Lord, his word & pray without ceasing.
–
Trust the Lord. We have that preserved word of God & light of 1611.
–
Psalm 16:11 KJB Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.