The NYPD’s summer safety initiative appears to be yielding positive results. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Mayor Eric ...

More subway riders have reported being punched, kicked and stabbed so far this year than last — and many of them were police ...

“I feel like there has been an increase, but I don’t think ... including major crime in the subway, down over 4%. But felony assaults are up 17% year to date. NYPD Chief of Crime Control ...

Straphangers reacted to the uptick in subway assaults. “It makes me question ... Jessica Tisch has previously credited the 24/7 increase in police patrols, particularly on stations and platforms ...

Forty-five felony assaults were reported in the subway system in September – a 21.6% increase from the 37 such crimes recorded during the same month in 2022, the latest statistics released by ...

Assaults on police officers in the subways surged in recent years as the NYPD ramped up enforcement in the transit system, MTA officials said Wednesday. MTA Chief Security Officer Michael Kemper ...

New York Police Department data showed that subway felony assaults rose by 20% since last year, despite other crimes ...

While violent crime in the subway has fluctuated in the past few years, there has been a substantial increase in key categories since before the coronavirus pandemic. Felony assaults in the system ...

A 68-year-old MTA worker was attacked with a metal pipe at the Bergen Street subway station in Brooklyn. The assailant fled ...

Subway assaults often involve strangers, in contrast to similar crimes on the streets, he said. Reeping added that a sizable increase in physical attacks on police officers — which are ...