The NYPD has once again surged its presence in the subway system by up to 1,000 cops per day, after a deadly first two months of 2024 that’s seen 3 people murdered in transit.
NYPD Transit Chief Michael Kemper said Monday that the police surge began at the start of February, after the January murder of Richard Henderson aboard a No. 3 train at Franklin Avenue in Brooklyn.
February has seen two additional, high-profile murders: the Feb. 12 mass shooting at the Bronx’s Mount Eden Avenue stop on the No. 4 line, which left Obed Beltran-Sanchez dead and 5 others injured; and the slaying of William Alvarez aboard a D train pulling into the 182nd-183rd Street stop in the Bronx on Friday.
