Manhattan, NY – New York City commuters may see extra police officers on their trains Tuesday morning.
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Approximately 100 officers from the New York Police Department will be at Penn Station, Grand Central Station and Herald Square. They will do additional bag screenings and inspections of train and subways.
The increased police presence is part of a planned operation. It is the second to take place this year.
The department says they will plan another operation with several police agencies on Friday, before the July 4 holiday weekend.
Yea.. that’s why it takes me over an hour already to get to work today! I’m already stuck on the W bridge for 30 minutes! This is crazy
The subway situation today was a total mess up…
The delays you, or anyone, experienced today on the subway into and out of the City was due to a smoke condition at Broadway-Lafayette, and not due to the extra security presence.
How silly can you be? You’re complaining about extra security checks? There’s intelligence discovered every day about terrorists and Chasdei Hashem they are getting foiled left and right. The city increasing police presence and security checks is an excellent step in the right direction to fend off terrorist attacks, and the city needs to increase it to even more stations and more subway lines. So your commute takes longer, and you are safer, B’Ezrat Hashem!
The whole exercise is a farce, and an exercise in futility. From 1965 thourgh 1974, the N.Y.C. Transit Police (prior to its merging with the NYCPD) had at least one cop on every subway station, and one on every train, between the hours of 8PM to 4AM. Mayor Wagner instituted that program. Unfortunately, because of budgetary cuts, the program was discontinued in 1974. However, it made quite a difference. Now, having 100 cops only in Manhattan at a few stations, is meaningless. What about the other boroughs?