This past week New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a controversial decision to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops to patrol and secure the subways due to exploding crime rates. This plan is a part of much broader 5-point plan to make the state and City safer.
Since taking office, I have been laser-focused on driving down subway crime and protecting New Yorkers. My five-point plan will rid our subways of violent offenders and protect all commuters and transit workers. I am sending a message to all New Yorkers: I will not stop working to keep you safe and restore your peace of mind whenever you walk through those turnstiles.
Governor Hochul said.
According to a press release from the Governor’s website, the 5-step plan is as follows:
Additional State Personnel to Assist NYPD
To supplement the NYPD’s enhanced baggage checks at heavily trafficked areas, Governor Hochul is deploying 1,000 members of State personnel to assist the NYPD’s mission to further this effort. This includes 250 members from the New York State Police and the MTA Police Department. In addition, Governor Hochul is directing the National Guard to make the 750 members currently deployed on Joint Task Force Empire Shield available to supplement this effort under the supervision of law enforcement. These checks will be targeted at heavily trafficked locations.
New Program Bill to Ban Assaulters of Commuters and Transit Workers
Governor Hochul today announced a new program bill that will allow judges to ban people convicted of an assault within the system from using MTA services as part of sentencing. There is currently a provision that allows a transit ban as a term of sentencing for individuals who assault transit workers, and under Governor Hochul’s plan, this same provision would be extended to include assaults of anyone within the system.
Improving Coordination Between Law Enforcement and District Attorneys
To improve coordination between law enforcement, transit personnel and district attorneys, Governor Hochul will initiate regular meetings between stakeholders to coordinate information sharing regarding holding dangerous, repeat offenders within the system accountable. This will assist district attorneys with their casework and support existing efforts to keep violent offenders off the streets and out of the subways. The first meeting will take place next week, and will be held regularly to ensure sustained coordination. To assist with this process, the MTA will also hire a new Criminal Justice Advocate to assist the victims of crime in the system, and MTAPD will develop a new early warning system to flag recidivist offenders for district attorney offices during booking processes.
New Cameras to Protect Conductors and Staff
Building on Governor Hochul’s announcement that MTA is accelerating the installation of cameras inside customer areas of trains, today Governor Hochul is announcing the installation of new cameras focused on conductor cabins to protect workers. These cameras will significantly assist law enforcement personnel as they search for assailants targeting transit workers. Governor Hochul is directing MTA to rapidly deploy these cameras throughout the system.
$20 Million to Expand the SCOUT Pilot in Addition to the SOS Program
Since January, MTA has deployed a SCOUT team pilot program in partnership with New York City, in addition to the successful SOS teams across the subway system, established and supported by Governor Hochul. SCOUT teams have the capacity to address the most severe cases of mental health crisis within the subway system, and assist New Yorkers in gaining access to mental health treatment and supportive housing. Governor Hochul is directing $20 million to rapidly scale this pilot and bring the total number of SCOUT teams to ten by the end of 2025.
MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber also said in a statement:
Since last year, we’ve installed thousands of new cameras within stations and on-board trains – adding to our already-vast network of 10,000 devices, which have been proven time and time again to lead to police apprehensions and even deter crime. And now, we’re moving forward with cameras in conductor cabs to address the risks our brave conductors and operators are facing.
We can’t afford to not act. The transit system is too important to the City and region to allow the perception of safety, or lack of it, to scare people away.
But not all New Yorkers are into the move. The plan sparked plenty of criticism which then forced the Governor to take to the media and address these concerns.
In an interview with PIX11, Hochul explained that “the National Guard are our neighbors; these are our moms and dads from our communities. They’re there just as a deterrent to those who might think that they can get away with committing crime. So, this is to supplement what the NYPD is already doing during this time of heightened anxiety and concern.”
When questioned about the bag searches, positing that it won’t stop the problem and just send armed criminals elsewhere where there are not bag searches, Hochul admitted “nothing will. That’s the point. This is not heavy handed.”
We’re not ever going back. That’s why this is statistically random. A certain, at a certain point, a person is pulled over and said, can we check your bags?
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Proverbs 29:2
Meanwhile NYC is handing out $10,000 Mastercards for illegals. Oh, but this influx of crime has nothing to do with hosting all these illegals flooding your streets now would it, after you fools gleefully paraded that New York City was a sanctuary city; or perhaps your asinine and draconian Covid protocols that destroyed the joint, and now people who were crazy before and lost even more, are now even more bent on destruction and crime?
You could say that New York, and really even the U.S., has been a police state for some time, but now NYC is undeniably and overtly one; and as the rest of the country collapses in more ways than one, expect martial law to sweep the country. Expect it.
[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).
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The problem is NYC don’t prosecute criminals, this is a bandage for a massive cut; don’t due nothin.
It’s a soft zone and signs that say so; we all know how well crooks adhere to the law of these signs.
Soon, New York is going to be a war zone, a literal war zone.
The majority of “refugees” are military aged men, and a lot of them are either already enlisted or are assisting with construction of military forts.
War is coming to America.
Defund the police = Empower the military
This is nothing short of martial law.
well they didnt want God so they’ll have to defend their nation on their own unless its trampled by illegals which is an act of terror.
the illegal flood.