Harry Siegel: Subway cop bosses talk themselves into cuffs
Five days after the latest deadly train shooting and six days before the latest deadly train shoving, two top NYPD officials assured straphangers that things are going great underground.
Despite the high-profile incidents “dominating the news cycle and weighing heavily on our riders’ psyches,” said Transit Chief Michael Kemper, “there’s a lot of good going on in the subway system when it comes to public safety.”
That’s because “your cops” — as Kemper kept calling them in a morning appearance on FOX 5 along with Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry, a protégé of the NYPD’s allegedly girlfriend-beating Chief of Department, Jeff Maddrey — “are making arrests and doing enforcement at a historic or near historic levels.”
The crime stats are down in February and March, Kemper continued, crediting that to the fact that Mayor Adams “gave us an investment of over a thousand additional cops into the subway system.”
The police bosses didn’t mention in their 10-minute appearance the spike in January that probably triggered Gov. Hochul’s crazy decision to deploy the National Guard.
They didn’t acknowledge,........
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