The NYPD’s highest-ranking chiefs are now riding the rails as part of Mayor Eric Adams crackdown on subway crime. Under the new policy, initiated by Adams, dozens of uniformed police chiefs will be split into pairs to venture into the underground - two per eight-hour shift, police sources said.
“Mayor wants the subways to feel safe,” said one high-ranking cop. “Chiefs on the subway will spur significant presence, at the very least, at the outset. The flip side is these effects are always temporary.”
More than 100 chiefs - including one-, two-, three- and four-star chiefs — will be required to sign in and out with the NYPD Transit Bureau before and after their scheduled subway shifts.
The email directed the top cops to “ride the trains for the duration of your transit tour and report any conditions.”
Chris Monahan, president of the Captains Endowment Association, said placing chiefs on trains was “the wrong approach - and a waste of time and resources - in handling the situation in the subway.”
Bottom line? Another clueless politician sticking his dick in where it doesn't belong. I'd imagine if he was still on the job and deBlazio ordered all Captains (his last rank before 'retiring') on to patrol duty, he'da blown a cork. Juss' sayin'...
Just checked my 'give-a-shit o'meter'. It's stuck on zero. For the insane money they earn it won't hurt them to do some actual police work occasionally.
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