NYC subway crime drops to pre-pandemic levels after cops flood system: Fear has really gone down

Crime is leaving the station.The Big Apple has finally seen subway crime crater — with the numbers even dipping below pre-pandemic levels — a milestone that NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch credited Thursday to a surge of cops in the system.Tisch, during a news conference with Mayor Eric Adams unveiling the city’s first-quarter crime statistics, said major offenses overall in the subways have dropped 18% — the second-lowest level in 27 years.“There have been zero murders in our subways this quarter, the first time that that has happened since 2018,” she said, referring to the period covering the first three months of the year.“When we announced this plan alongside the mayor back in January, we promised real results, and boy did we get them.”The transit safety plan that Tisch had unveiled in January came as New Yorkers were overwhelmed with fear after a wave of subway violence, including a woman fatally set ablaze on a Brooklyn train car.Tisch responded by deploying 200 cops to trains and platforms, as well as flooding hundreds more to transit hubs in order to support a Gov.Kathy Hochul-hatched plan to put two officers on every overnight subway.Straphangers have noticed a difference, telling The Post on Thursday that they’ve started feeling less afraid to take the trains.“The subway feels a lot safer,” newborn care specialist Carol Sparks, 69, who rides the subway five days a week from her Flatlands, Brooklyn, home said at the Wall Street station.“There’s not as much abuse or people disturbing you,” she said.

“More police is the answer.When there are more police, the subway is safer.”Laci Komula, 36, a visitor from Louisville, Kentucky, in town for the week with her 9- and 12-year-old sons, said she has heard horror stories about random shovings and panhandlers harassing tourists.But so far, she has been pleasantly surprised as she and her sons have caught the subway all around the city, from South Ferry to the Natural History Museum ...