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MTA beefs up security
1
243 new police recruits added underground as the MTA and NYPD try to stem rising tide
of crime in the subways Major crime is up, but arrests down in 2011, new data shows
EMILY ANNE EPSTEIN/METRO
Subway crime
increase
350 more major felonies,
such as rape, murder and
grand larceny, were commit-
ted in the subway system in
2011 than in 2010, a 16 per-
cent increase, according to
In the news the MTA.
In 2011 an average of nearly
seven major felonies were
committed every day, up
from an average of 6 major
felonies committed daily in
2010 and 5.6 per day in 2009.
In 2009, 35 percent of sub-
way crime was the theft of
electronics, and in 2011, that
number grew to 49 percent,
according to NYPD Transit
Chief Joseph Fox.
In 2011, the majority of
3 World Trade crimes were committed in
Brooklyn (37 percent) and
may be cut by
Manhattan (35 percent), with
73 stories Major felony crimes in the subway are up 16 percent compared to 2010, and the NYPD has added the Bronx (16 percent) and
243 more police to its Transit Bureau in response. Queens (12 percent) making
The developer of 3 World up just one-third of crime.
Trade Center, Larry Silver-
stein, may cap the under-
“It’s an extremely
construction office tower The NYPD and the MTA are sit cops back to 2010 staffing Albert said yesterday the grow-
to less than a tenth of its combating skyrocketing sub- levels. safe system. Safety ing crime of subway fare eva- Higher fines
original size, according way crime with a surge of new “Subways are very busy sion is of particular concern.
doesn’t mean
to Crain’s New York. The recruits. places. They’ll be put to good “I’m seeing more fare eva-
move stems from a 2010 NYPD Transit Chief Joseph use,” said Fox of the new hires. letting our guard sion than I’ve seen in a long A state senator has cleared
agreement between Sil- Fox announced yesterday that The chief bragged that in time," he said. the way to jack up fines for
down.”
verstein and the Port Au- 243 rookie cops from the Police their first 13 days on the force, Fare evasion was the one farebeating from $100 to
thority that Silverstein Academy’s January graduating each rookie has made at least JOSEPH FOX, area where the NYPD has made $500. The Senate passed Sen.
had to have the first 10 of class have been assigned to the one arrest. NYPD TRANSIT CHIEF more arrests, 427 more in 2011 Charles Fuschillo’s legislation
its planned 80 floors pre- Transit Bureau. Those recruits The new police are sorely than in 2010. yesterday. “The MTA and its
leased, or risk simply bring the total number of dedi- needed underground. In 2011, there were 1,392 “We’re in the process of do- fare-paying riders shouldn’t
building a seven-story cated subway cops to 2,496, he Although crime was up in less arrests on the trains than ing all we can,” said Fox. have to spend tens of mil-
tower. Silverstein may said. 2011, MTA statistics released in 2010. There were also 12,962 lions of dollars more each
still go ahead with the But don’t be too impressed: yesterday reveal that the NYPD less summonses issued last year year paying for other peo-
taller skyscraper if he can Fox said the addition only hasn’t kept pace with increased than in 2010. EMILY ANNE EPSTEIN ple’s illegal free rides,”
[email protected]
find a major tenant by brings the total number of tran- arrests. MTA board member Andrew Fuschillo said.
the end of this year.
METRO/SV
Welcoming in 2012, the GETTY IMAGES MTA turns down offer of
Correction
Year of the Dragon free bus for 7-train riders
According to a report
done by the New York
City Public Advocate,
about child deaths in NEW YORK.Yesterday marked 14percent of students QUEENS.MTA officials have re- 11The 7 train will not
New York City, 75 chil- the first day of the Chinese jected a $250,000 offer made
in the city’s public run between Times
dren died over a mul- new year, the Year of the by Queens Councilman Jim-
school system are Square and Queensboro
ti-year period, not on- Dragon. There were celebra- my Van Bramer to fund a free
Asian-American. Plaza for 11 weekends
ly in 2011 as reported tions throughout Chinatown, shuttle-bus service for
now through March 31.
in yesterday’s paper. including the firecracker cere- frustrated straphangers on
Metro regrets the mony in Roosevelt Park. Jan. 29. There is a growing de- the 7 train. After Queens resi-
error. There, firecrackers were set mand to give New York City dents discovered they have 11 Grand Central. Van Bramer
off in hopes of warding away public school students the consecutive weekends of serv- said the MTA declined his of-
evil spirits in the new year. Chinese new year off as an of- A traditional dance troupe ice outages, Van Bramer said fer, saying their three-transfer
But the big Chinese new year ficial school holiday. performs in Chinatown. he offered to pay for a direct bus plan would be a faster al-
parade will be this Sunday, METRO/CB bus from Long Island City to ternative. METRO/SV

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Site hosted drug, sex links GENNADY GUROV
Potential challenger to NY Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand runs blog that linked
to posts about sex, women, drugs Gillibrand calls the site ‘anti-women’
A potential challenger to Sen. is up for re-election in No- and very disrespectful.”
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) de- vember, runs a website where Bill O’Reilly, Cenedella’s
nied yesterday that he au- blog posts once ran with spokesman, said the posts
thored blog posts she blasted headlines such as “Sexy vs. were written between 2003
as sexist. Skanky” and “High Quality and 2008 by five or six differ-
Marc Cenedella, a busi- Dope,” The New York Times ent authors. Cenedella recalls
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for Gillibrand’s seat when she The posts can no longer be specifically wrote them,
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The posts in question are no But The Times reported this as a significant linked to text that was not
longer available, but the Sunday that Cenedella’s pho- issue. ... Kirsten written by Cenedella or his
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No more Mr. Nice Gov. BLOOMBERG
Former front-runner Romney fights fire with fire, gets into the negative
attack game Hits Gingrich hard on character issues Gingrich hits back
Republican presidential candi- “I think as you look into the lead in Florida ahead
Gingrich
date Mitt Romney yesterday of the state’s pivotal Jan. 31 pri-
at the speaker’s
sharpened his attacks on rival mary, the fourth contest in the
gets even
Newt Gingrich’s business past record over time, state-by-state battle for the Re-
and character ahead of a cru- it’s been highly publican nomination to face
cial debate in which Romney President Barack Obama, a De- WASHINGTON. Just as Rom-
needs a strong performance to erratic. He’s gone mocrat, in the Nov. 6 election. ney was on the defensive
recharge his bid for the White from pillar to post A Rasmussen Reports tele- over taxes last week, Gin-
House. phone survey of likely Repub- grich had to explain his
almost like a
Romney blasted Gingrich lican voters put Gingrich on Freddie Mac role.
yesterday as an erratic politi- pinball machine, top of Romney by 9 percent- In an interview on
cian who has switched posi- age points and an Insider Ad- ABC’s “Good Morning
from item to item
tions “almost like a pinball ma- vantage poll showed Gingrich America”, Gingrich said
chine,” in a toughening of his in a way which is with a lead of 8 percentage Romney was not being
rhetoric to try to halt his chief points. honest when he called
rival’s surprising momentum. highly erratic.” ROMNEY Romney hit Gingrich hard him a “lobbyist” for Fred-
Seeking to regain his foot- on character issues. He die Mac. Gingrich also said
ing after losing Saturday’s It looked to be a tit-for-tat warned Republicans that he would work to get his
South Carolina primary badly “disclosure” tactic on Romney’s there might be enough bag- consulting contract with
to Gingrich, Romney chal- part after Gingrich effectively gage in Gingrich’s past that Freddie Mac released.
lenged the former speaker of attacked him last week for not could hurt the party’s chances “I did no lobbying, pe-
the House of Representatives releasing his tax returns. Rom- of taking back the White riod,” Gingrich said. “He This unused cover option for Bloomberg Businessweek made
to return the $1.6 million in ney, who is worth some $270 House from Obama. Romney’s keeps using the word ‘lob- the rounds online yesterday. Editor Josh Tyrangiel explained why
consulting fees he made from million, will disclose two years campaign also released a TV byist’ because I’m sure his they didn’t go with it: “A lot of times these decisions are about all
Freddie Mac and detail the of returns today. ad to criticize Gingrich’s Fred- consultants tell him it of us putting our finger in the air and trying to figure out which
work he performed for the New opinion polls show die Mac ties and link them to scores well.” REUTERS way the zeitgeist is blowing.” Someone needs a weatherman.
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in other words, good ideas are p SENSE: ROMNEY IS RUNNING ON A PLATFORM THAT CLAIMS
Last night the four Republican killed off solely owing to the Sli PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS FAILED TO IMPROVE THE ECONOMY.
presidential hopefuls still left perception that they could aid
standing met in Tampa, Fla., President Obama will likely work to repair the damage to rival politicians come next No-
19,552
for the 18th debate of the cam- his brand in tomorrow’s night’s State of the Union speech. vember; when elected officials
paign cycle, and we’re sure it weigh their own upcoming pass legislation
was a doozy. Former front-run- contests more heavily then the [SOPA/PIPA].” According
ner Mitt Romney, buffeted by Obama’s first three years of by the opposition party as a big general welfare of the Ameri- to the petition, Dodd
attacks from the tricky Newt rule as the Chicago newcom- loss (and therefore scuttled) re- can people; what we get are Number of signatures at told politicians: “Don't
Gingrich, must take control of er’s much-ballyhooed post- gardless of its potential to im- politicians looking to benefit “We The People” White ask me to
the narrative and go on the of- partisanship crashed headfirst prove the lot of regular Ameri- not “we the people” but House website implor- write a
fensive. We predict a rumble. into the messy realities of cans; and in which a hyperpar- “me the candidate.” ing the president to in- check for
However, the debate runs Washington gridlock. tisan national media infrastruc- Obama, of course, did not vestigate former Sen. — you when
too late for our analysis, which In this analysis, reformer ture can effectively motivate create this system, but he does and current chief lobby- you think
will instead run tomorrow. Obama grossly underestimated negative public opinion in sup- seem to have run aground of it. ist for the Motion your job is
Today we’re going to address a the nature of U.S. two-party pol- port of special interests. And if he wants to win re-elec- Picture Association of at risk and
New Yorker article by reporter itics, in which a win for one In short, the system — as tion, he’ll have to work with it. America — Chris Dodd then don't pay any
Ryan Lizza that chronicles the party — and perhaps the coun- we all now, irrespective of par- for “publicly admit[ing] attention to me when
Metro does not endorse the opinions of the
death of hope in President try at large — may be perceived ty affiliation, seem hopelessly author, or any opinions expressed on its pages. to bribing politicians to my job is at stake.”
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08 news
THE
BIG ISSUE
WITH METRO’S
CASSANDRA
GARRISON
@cassieatmetro [email protected]
After accusations of rape, spying and brutality, public faith wavers in
Black eyes home in 2009. Walker, who the NYPD Yes, the nation’s largest police force has prevented 14
was unarmed, supposedly
had no idea the man was a terrorist attacks since 9/11 But the department has also been hit by
West African immigrant cop.
Amadou Diallo was killed in several scandals that risk harming New Yorkers’ confidence in police
1999 in front of his Bronx Michael Daragjati, a white
apartment after he was shot NYPD officer, pleaded guilty CAN WE STILL
19 times by officers who to civil rights violations after
said they thought he was he bragged about arresting
reaching for a gun. He was a black man in Staten Island
unarmed. The four officers in April of 2011.
were acquitted of second-
degree murder charges. Officer Emmanuel Tavarez
CALL THEM
pleaded guilty in April 2011
to robbing drug dealers of
cash and drugs.
NY’S FINEST?
Pena
L
NYPD officer Michael Pena
Bell was charged with the rape
of a woman who said he at- ast year was a rocky and force used against Occu- incidents to come out of 2011
Quoted
tacked her when she asked one for the NYPD. py Wall Street protesters, was the trial of officers Ken-
Police shot and killed 23- him for directions while he The largest police that a growing public mis- neth Moreno and Frank Mata
“There is no
year-old Sean Bell the night was off-duty in Inwood in force in the U.S. at trust begins to reveal itself. who were charged with the
before his wedding in 2006, August 2011. 34,500 officers independent For example, in October of rape of a woman they were
when officers fired 50 bul- strong was consistently un- agency to perform 2011, at the height of OWS, enlisted to help. Though they
lets at the car he was in with Seventeen police officers der scrutiny for highly publi- voters were split 46 to 45 per- were only convicted of offi-
friends. Three detectives were indicted in September cized scandals and shocking oversight; the NYPD cent in their approval of the cial misconduct, the case
who said they thought he of 2011 in an alleged ticket- revelations. Rape accusations tells us everything way police handled the Wall struck a chord with New
had a gun were indicted but fixing scandal that got rid of against police, a ticket-fixing Street protests. Yorkers, especially among
is OK, and we are
acquitted in 2008. The city traffic tickets for friends and scandal, reporters arrested “Officers risk their lives victims of sexual assault,
paid a $7 million lawsuit to family members with the while covering Occupy Wall expected to believe every day and the NYPD has who often hesitate to report
his friends and family. help of cops. Street — with each embar- been top-notch in protecting their rapes.
it — no matter how
rassing headline, New York’s this city from terror attacks, “Even though the officers
33-year-old Vionique Val- Five NYPD cops were busted Finest damaged its once many incidents both of which we all recog- were acquitted, nothing
nord of Brooklyn was killed in October of 2011 for smug- record-high level of trust nize and deeply appreciate,” could undermine public trust
point to the
while hailing a taxi when gling firearms and slot ma- among the public. said City Councilman Ju- in the police — who are sup-
she was struck by an SUV chines as part of a 12-person In a post-9/11 world, New contrary.” maane Williams, who repre- posed to be guardians of peo-
driven by a drunk, off-duty theft ring. The operation Yorkers willingly put their sents Flatbush. “Where trust ple — more than charges
JUMAANE WILLIAMS
NYPD officer in 2009. had been under federal sur- faith in the NYPD to protect hWas taken a serious hit is in that they use their unique
veillance the entire time. them from another attack by SOURCE: QUINNIPIAC people’s day-to-day lives.” powers to do good to perpe-
Michael Mineo publicly ac- any means necessary. Ap- trate evil,” said John Jay pro-
cused three cops of assault- An AP investigation in 2011 proval rating of the police Poll illiams had his fessor and former NYPD offi-
ing and sodomizing him revealed the NYPD had force among the public was a own run-in cer and city prosecutor Eu-
with a baton in a Brooklyn been spying on New York soaring 76 percent in Febru- How do you feel about the with police in gene O’Donnell.
subway station in Muslims by infiltrating ary 2002, according to a shooting death of Sean Bell? 2011, when he New Yorkers are indeed
October 2008. mosques and student Quinnipiac poll. The NYPD was arrested fed up and disappointed with
The three offi- groups. has taken a swift and effec- 57%NO EXCUSE FOR HOW at the West Indian Day Parade. the NYPD immediately after
NYPD ACTED
cers were ac- tive approach to terrorism, Cops said Williams didn’t fol- an embarrassing public gaffe.
quitted in Commissioner and there has not been an- low requests to stay behind But the police force’s overall
February, Ray Kelly other attack on its watch in police tape, but Williams, approval rating never dips
2010. announced new 10 years. In fact, the overall who is African-American, too low.
infrared technol- approval of the NYPD re- said he was a target of racial Are New Yorkers willing
Shem ogy that will help mains exceptionally high, profiling, something that he to forgive in exchange for
Walker was police detect wavering between 60 and 69 said happens far too often in safety — and if so, how long
shot and Mineo whether someone percent. police work. will that last?
killed during a is carrying a gun But it’s when voters are 11% “We hear stories about a
scuffle with an un- without frisking them in polled on more specific is- 32% bad apple here and there, WRITE TO METRO:
dercover NYPD officer who January 2012. Critics argue sues, including headline- DON’T KNOW and the fact is we now have a [email protected]
was sitting on the stoop of that the tactic is invasive making scandals like the POLICE BEHAVIOR bumper crop of bad apples,”
his mother’s Fort Greene and unconstitutional. shooting death of Sean Bell IS UNDERSTANDABLE Williams said.
One of the most shocking