New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the deployment of 1,000 New York National Guardsmen, State Police officers, and MTA cops to patrol the NYC subway and perform bag checks.
In total, 750 guardsmen and 250 cops will patrol “the city’s busiest transit stations,” the New York Post noted.
Hochul cited increased violent crime as the reason to deploy the National Guard soldiers and police officers.
Gov. Hochul to deploy 1,000 National Guardsman, state cops to carry out bag checks in NYC subways https://t.co/A67yD19FaV pic.twitter.com/OvzbftlxVH
— New York Post (@nypost) March 6, 2024
Just the News reports:
Referring to multiple recent high-profile assaults as she made the announcement, Hochul said, “These brazen heinous attacks on our subway system will not be tolerated.”
Hochul said the program will focus on “repeat offenders, deterring crime and protecting the people in our subways.”
Hochul said bag checks will be conducted by officers and soldiers in the city’s busiest stations to ensure that “weapons are not being brought in.”
Instead of focusing on criminals who commit harm against innocent men and women, New York public servants institute policies that will infringe upon the rights of law-abiding parties.
The governor’s order will greenlight National Guardsmen and State Police to violate the people’s Fourth Amendment rights to prohibit unreasonable searches and seizures.
Men and women minding their business will likely face targeted searches, while criminals who violently assault others will continue to have no repercussions.
“So they’re going to check if I’m carrying a gun or 6-inch blade in my hot pink Givenchy instead of just putting the violent criminals who keep reoffending on the subways in jail,” Ashley St. Clair noted.
“Imagine running late to a meeting in stilettos and national guard stops you at the subway to see what u got in ur bag as if average new yorkers are the problem and everybody needs random stop n frisks They’re acting like we dont know who might commit the violent crime (newsflash the people who have already been arrested that u let out),” she continued.
Imagine running late to a meeting in stilettos and national guard stops you at the subway to see what u got in ur bag as if average new yorkers are the problem and everybody needs random stop n frisks
They’re acting like we dont know who might commit the violent crime…
— Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) March 6, 2024
It doesn’t take a weapon in someone’s bag to physically assault another individual or push a bystander onto the tracks.
Hochul’s order won’t make anyone safer.
On the contrary, it will make self-defense more difficult for law-abiding men and women.
Hochul’s announcement follows New York City Mayor Eric Adams saying subway riders would be subject to ‘random’ bag checks due to increased crime.
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NEW: New York Sh*tty Democrat Mayor Eric Adams says he is bringing back bag checks for subway riders after a 13% crime spike. pic.twitter.com/WqrYdFbjMb
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(@ImMeme0) March 6, 2024
Daily Mail reports:
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has slammed a failure to stop repeat offenders as the Big Apple grapples with a surge in subway crimes.
The former top cop, 63, launched a crackdown this week that will see subway riders subjected to ‘random’ bag checks while upping the numbers of plainclothes cops.
Adams stressed the measures are necessary to curb a surge in subway attacks, particularly on MTA workers, that he said it being primarily fueled by a small number of criminals being able to target people hundreds of times each.
He noted that 38 people were arrested for a staggering 1,126 attacks on MTA workers in 2023, while 542 people were arrested last year for over 7,600 shoplifting crimes.
‘We’re doing our job,’ he told PIX11 on Wednesday. ‘You can’t have 38 people that committed 1,126 crimes in our city back on our streets.’
In a separate interview on Wednesday with CBS New York, it was noted that Adams is deploying 94 bag checking teams across 136 stations, among 472 total subway stations in New York City.
These efforts are set to be bolstered by almost 1,000 New York State Police, MTA Police and National Guard troops deployed to help the subway bag checks, it was announced Wednesday.
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