Brooklynites react to plan to put a cop on every subway line
NYPD Plan Designed to Deter Slashings
There was yet another slashing in Brooklyn early Monday morning. The victim was slashed after he woke up a sleeping straphanger who happened to be an ex-convict who had previously been arrested for stabbing someone to death with an ice pick.
The incident — which took place at 3:15 a.m. on the Queens-bound subway platform at the Classon Avenue G train station — brings the total number of 2016 slashings in New York City’s metro system to 16.
In light of this new trend of subway violence, police sources said on Tuesday that the NYPD is planning on putting an officer on every train at night.