Subway police deployment begins

January 22, 2025 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

NYPD officers stand aboard a train at the West Fourth Street subway station, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. Photo: Peter K. Afriyie/AP

NYPD officers stand aboard a train. Photo: Peter K. Afriyie/AP

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CITYWIDE — MAYOR ADAMS ON Tuesday, Jan. 21 at a press conference announced that police officers began deploying on subway trains on Monday night, with 100 officers initially stationed on the A, G, J and L lines. The deployment will scale up to 300 officers on 150 overnight trains across the city, with a goal of two officers per train. amNY reports that the city is using state funding to pay the $77 million cost for the additional patrols and for another 750 officers positioned on platforms and in stations throughout the system, following a series of high-profile subway crimes, including the burning of a woman aboard a Coney Island F train and the pushing of a Brooklyn man in front of a Manhattan train just last month.

NYPD Transit Chief Joseph Gulotta said that conductors will announce the presence of the onboard officers, who will patrol on trains between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. and will move from car to car at each station stop.

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