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Featured Stories March 08,2024 | Independence Journal Editorial Team

New York Governor Deploys National Guard To Fight Subway Crime

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has announced that she will be deploying the National Guard to the crime-riddled subways of New York City.

As part of the latest effort to crack down on violent crime that has been plaguing the subways and leading New Yorkers to fear for their safety, Hochul issued an order that will send 1,000 law enforcement personnel — including 750 National Guard troops and 250 officers from the State Police and Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) — to perform safety checks.

The Washington Free Beacon reported that these law enforcement personnel will be performing tasks such as “conducting bag checks in the city’s busiest stations.”

“These brazen heinous attacks on our subway system will not be tolerated,” Hochul wrote in a statement. “No one heading to their job or to visit family or go to a doctor appointment should worry that the person sitting next to them possesses a deadly weapon.”

In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Hochul explained that she is “committed to ensuring all New Yorkers feel safe on our subways.”

She went on to explain the measures being taken to achieve this goal, including increasing “public safety personnel,” introducing “legislation to protect riders & workers,” installing security cameras, increasing “collaboration to hold offenders accountable” and expanding “SCOUT Teams.”

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) took similar action last month, deploying 1,000 police officers into the subway stations in response to a surge in violent crime — which included a rise in assaults and people being shoved onto the subway tracks.

“I’m on the subway system and I speak with riders,” Adams stated on Tuesday during a press conference. “They say, ‘Eric, nothing makes us feel safer than seeing that officer at the token booth, walking through the system, walking through the trains’ and that is what we want our officers to do.”

Since January, New York City’s subway system has seen three homicides, numerous assaults and multiple grand larcenies. Videos of these violent crimes have repeatedly gone viral on social media, with users expressing concern about the dangers of living in New York City.

Meanwhile, on the same day that Hochul announced the deployment of the National Guard, Adams claimed in a post on X that violent crime in the city was down.

This post was ruthlessly mocked by X users, who rightfully pointed out that the soft-on-crime policies of the far-left city have led to a decrease in arrests and prosecutions, which artificially deflates crime statistics. Others also pointed out that Hochul wouldn’t be sending National Guard to the subways if Adams’ claims were true.

“If you stop arresting and prosecuting criminals your crime stats improve but in reality crime skyrockets. Presumably that’s why National Guard troops have been deployed to protect citizens in the city,” one user wrote.

“Crime is sooooo down this is why Hochul had to deploy 1000 National Guard and cops to NYC subway. People don’t believe your lying eyes,” another wrote.

Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy also pointed to the irony of Hochul’s decision, noting: “When Trump raised the idea of using the National Guard, they called it tyrannical. When a Democratic governor now uses it, they call it a ‘public safety measure.’”

But if the riots of 2020 and the skyrocketing crime in the city since that time didn’t prompt this heavy-handed response from the governor, why is it only now that the governor is deploying the military to the streets of New York? Is there something else going on here? 

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    March 8, 2024
    GymS

    Gee. DEM mayor (another failure) said crime was down….

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