Jessica Tisch boasted of an impressive overall 5.3% drop<\/a>\u00a0in citywide crime and a more modest 1.3% drop in subway crime as of March 29.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s really bad because people are pretty much forced to take the subway because of congestion pricing,\u201d a longtime Bronx police officer said. \u201cNow they\u2019re forced to walk around with their heads on a swivel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robberies in the subway are often driven by kids, the NYPD said, adding that 34% of the incidents so far this year were committed by juveniles and 63% have led to arrests.<\/p>\n
A rider who identified himself as Steve, 45, said the number of homeless people in the subway has increased. Helayne Seidman for the NY Post<\/p>\n
In one recent robbery, eight people attacked three 18-year-old friends on a Bronx train, beat them and stole their electronics. DCPI<\/p>\n
The robbery increase was 54% in January and February, compared to the same period in 2025, coinciding with record cold temperatures and snow that pushed more people onto the city\u2019s crammed trains. The incidents trended downward in March, an NYPD spokesman said.<\/p>\n
Riders are on edge after recent crimes, including one in which three friends on a Bronx subway car were beaten, kicked and cut with a knife while a gang of eight strangers stole their electronics.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe safety on the trains is not good right now,\u201d said Ronald Stokes, 55, an assistant superintendent for NYCHA who lives in Harlem and wants more cops.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey need to ride the trains \u2026 to stand outside the station is one thing but to ride the trains would be a big help.\u201d<\/p>\n
Claude Butler, a dispatcher for Charter Communications who also lives in Harlem, said he feels like he always has to be on the defensive in the subway \u201cbecause you never know what can happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NYPD released pohtos of the suspects in the March 26 Bronx robbery. DCPI<\/p>\n
The robbers punched and kicked the victims on a Bronx train, knifing one of them in the head. DCPI<\/p>\n
\u201cJust this morning I had to come with my wife because I don\u2019t feel it\u2019s safe for her to ride alone,\u201d the 62-year-old said. \u201cA lot of times, when I\u2019m not with her, guys approach her. Sometimes they brush up against her.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also pointed out that the officers in the system are mainly on the platforms.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen [the police] are here, I just see them in the stations,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t see them on the trains\u2026 they should ride the trains.\u201d<\/p>\n
Three teenagers were attacked by masked goons who punched and kicked them, stabbing one of them and hitting another in the face with a scooter. DCPI<\/p>\n
Robbers punched and kicked a 37-year-old man as they snatched his headphones on an E subway at the Grand Avenue subway station in Queens around 3 a.m. March 31, police said. DCPI<\/p>\n
Mayor Mamdani campaigned in part on cutting the NYPD\u2019s budget, including shuttering the NYPD\u2019s Strategic Response Group, which handles protests and counter-terrorism above and below ground.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0NYPD Strategic Response Group (SRG)is a specialized unit focused on counterterrorism, large-scale protests, and critical incidents rather than routine transit policing. While the SRG has been deployed to NYC subway stations, it is typically used for high-profile incidents or special operations, not regular daily patrols.<\/p>\n
The city needs to flood the subway with cops for the summer, Alcazar said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think robberies are going to increase because there\u2019s going to be more riders and there\u2019s going to be more bad guys, especially in the subway,\u201d Alcazar said. \u201cWe need to have an omnipresence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robberies are soaring in the city\u2019s transit system, NYPD data show. There were\u00a0128 muggings on trains and buses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,2955,615,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-193673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-nypd","16":"tag-robberies","17":"tag-subway","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}