The NYPD has arrested 143 people in the city's subways and removed 455 people from trains and stations in the first week of a crackdown on crime and the presence of homeless people in the transit system. Cops also issued 1,553 tickets for rule violations.
Adams, a Democrat who took office earlier this year, announced in February an aggressive effort to make the subways feel safer by sending teams of officers into stations and trains, along with social workers to connect homeless people with shelters, food banks, and other services.
The mayor has been responding to a string of high-profile violent incidents in subways, including a woman who was pushed to her death in front of a train in January, along with several stabbings in recent weeks.The NYPD is urgently searching for a suspect behind a brutal hammer attack and robbery inside of a Queens subway station.
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