Body scanners coming to NYC subway stations as city struggles to get a grip on surging crime

Crime in NYC subway stations has gotten so uncontrolled that Democratic Mayor Eric Adams introduced Thursday that physique scanners are coming to the city’s stations. 

The scans might be used to detect weapons getting into the subway stations, as city officers have been attempting to deter a sharp uptick in prison exercise.

“We are going to use technology to identify those bad people who are carrying bad weapons,” Adams stated Thursday. “And I say to those who are afraid of scanners who rather not walk through it, I rather you be safe – so let’s bring on the scanners.”

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Adams stated the city will endure a 90-day ready interval for the scanners to be examined earlier than they are often carried out in each station. In addition to the scanners, the city will rent extra psychological well being clinicians to work alongside the New York Police Department (NYPD) “to swiftly move individuals with untreated severe mental illness out of the subway system and into care.”

“This duality of technology and our mental health approach is going to accomplish the goal that we seek – transit riders should be safe, our city should be safe, people should receive the care that they deserve,” Adams stated. 

Adams’ announcement is available in the identical week that three stabbings befell in and across the Big Apple’s subway system. The city introduced it was deploying 800 extra police to patrol its crime-ridden subways — even after round 750 National Guard troops have been deployed to the underground system earlier this month and 1,000 further police have been added in February.

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Members of the NYPD and National Guard conduct randomized bag searches in New York City’s subway system on Monday, March 11, 2024.  (Matthew McDermott for Fox News Digital)

On Monday, New York City introduced plans to intensify a crackdown on subway fare-beating by sending at the least 800 law enforcement officials particularly to hold watch on turnstiles.

There have been greater than 1,700 arrests for turnstile-jumping and over 28,000 fare evasion tickets issued to this point this yr, information exhibits.

Police and Mayor Eric Adams, a former transit officer himself, in current weeks have prompt some hyperlinks between fare-skipping and violence on the trains.

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Members of the NYPD and National Guard conduct randomized bag searches in New York City’s subway system on Monday, March 11, 2024.  (Matthew McDermott for Fox News Digital)

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According to NYPD information, there have been three homicides within the underground system in January and February, whereas incidents such as grand larcenies, felony assaults and robberies additionally noticed a sharp uptick. 

A cello participant was hit over the pinnacle with a bottle by a crazed lady final month, whereas in January, Fox News meteorologist Adam Klotz was brutally crushed on a Big Apple subway by a group of teenagers after he intervened on behalf of an aged man whose hair that they had lit on hearth.

Earlier this month, the NYPD additionally rolled out bag checks for subway riders to confiscate objects such as knives, weapons, field cutters and different weapons.

Fox News’ Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.