{"id":195613,"date":"2026-04-13T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195613\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:38:10","slug":"nypd-kills-machete-attacker-at-nycs-grand-central-police-staffing-deficit-impacts-crime-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195613\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD kills machete attacker at NYC&#8217;s Grand Central, police staffing deficit impacts crime rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">\n              NYPD fatally shoots a machete-wielding man at NYC&#8217;s Grand Central, injuring three. Former Lt. Darrin Porcher discusses the force&#8217;s 3,000-officer deficit and a 22% rise in subway crime. Teen mob &#8216;takeovers&#8217; in D.C. and L.A. are also analyzed.\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">Former NYPD Lieutenant Darrin Porcher discusses the machete attack at New York City&#8217;s Grand Central, where police fatally shot a suspect. He highlights the NYPD&#8217;s alarming 3,000-officer deficit and a staggering 22% increase in subway crime, criticizing Mayor Mandani&#8217;s policies. Porcher also addresses recent &#8220;teen takeover&#8221; events in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, stressing the need for better law enforcement strategy and social media monitoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYPD fatally shoots a machete-wielding man at NYC&#8217;s Grand Central, injuring three. Former Lt. Darrin Porcher discusses the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14425,73359,9,56,63,65,64,73360,10875,4107,73362,73358],"class_list":{"0":"post-195613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-americas-newsroom","9":"tag-latest-news-videos","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-on-air","16":"tag-shows","17":"tag-u-s","18":"tag-v-video","19":"tag-what-to-watch-videos"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195613","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=195613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}