The MTA is asking for 1,500 extra police officers to be assigned to the city’s beleagured transit system – three times the number the NYPD said it would send in on Monday.
Buyers of police on Saturday promised to put at least 500 police officers in the system after a homeless man started a random weekend with a severe disaster that killed two people and injured two guys.
“We believe that the additional 500 officers you have agreed to dedicate to the metro system is an important first step that will help alleviate the fears of customers and heroic transport workers who serve this city every day,” the chairman said. of the MTA, Pat Foye, and the interim president of transportation, Sarah Feinberg, said in an open letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio and Dermot Shea, commissioner of the NYPD, on Sunday.
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“However, we believe more is needed, which is why we are writing today to request an additional 1,000 NYPD officers to the Transit Bureau to immediately patrol subways and buses,” Foye and Feinberg wrote.
“We demand that teams of uniformed officers be assigned to each station and that officers ride on the system all day and overnight to ensure the safety of our customers and colleagues.
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The letter notes that there has been a ‘disturbing trend’ in increasing assaults in the transit system despite an overall drop in urban crime – even with a 70 per cent decrease in metro management and a 50 per cent decrease in city bus riders .
“Assaults on our workers, from harassment and threats to physical violence, still occur too frequently,” Foye and Feinberg wrote. “Every single one of these events is one too many.”
The bloody weekend reports on the A Train line were the latest in the recent outbreak of violence through violence. Rigoberto Lopez, a 21-year-old homeless man, was arrested in the attacks.
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City Hall representative Avery Cohen said in an email to The Post on Sunday: ‘The city is immediately rushing 500 officers to keep New Yorkers safe in our trains, stations and platforms.
“They will work hand in hand with the thousands of officers and outreach workers who are already doing this work every day in our communities and metros.”
The NYPD did not respond to a request for comment.
This report originally appeared in the New York Post.