Mayor Adams' new subway security plan groups of cops and psychological well being staff onto the trains.
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The Subject: Mayor Adams’ plan to make subways safer by rising social-service and police presence.
There's little doubt that the difficulty of homelessness is a matter that must be solved (“Subway residenceless-aid groups off to gradual begin,” Feb. 23).
Merely ignoring the difficulty, as Mayor Adams’ predecessor did, isn't an answer. Locking individuals up doesn’t clear up the issue both.
These individuals have been as soon as productive members of society who, for no matter cause, have descended into a lifetime of drug dependancy and psychological sickness.
Adams’ multifaceted plan to incorporate regulation enforcement, medical care, drug remedy and housing is required if this homeless disaster is to lastly be resolved. It actually is well worth the effort.
Robert DiNardo
Farmingdale
There's one sure-fire technique to cease the mayhem on the subway. That's to alter each turnstile to those we discover at unmanned stations.
They're floor-to-ceiling barred turnstiles you can’t leap over. No extra fare-beating and the crazies and homeless who commit many of those violent crimes could be denied entry to the platforms as a result of, consider me, few are paying to get on the trains.
These emergency doorways? They need to be locked and solely opened on the discretion of the fare-booth clerks.
It might gradual entrance to the platforms, but it surely’s a small value to pay for the lives saved and stopping crimes typically dedicated on our subways.
Perry Greenberg
Brooklyn
This week, on the best way residence from work, I witnessed a matted homeless ladies take up three seats and proceed to place a blanket over herself to obscure what she was doing beneath.
This girl wanted remedy. We now have allowed activists to set the drumbeat on the remedy of the homeless — all within the title of not believing they're sick and in want of assist.
As a substitute, society is known as sick and systemically racist. We want a brand new method of coping with this downside — not the Steven Banks method. He has achieved sufficient harm
Mark Zafrin
Manhattan
I applaud Mayor Adams’ new coverage on tackling crime within the subway.
Nonetheless, handing out summonses for fare-beating won't be efficient in combating this downside. Arresting them and prosecuting them could be a simpler deterrent.
Alan Fenster
Flushing
The homeless are individuals, too. There are lots of homeless in New York, and our mayor understands that solely too properly. That's the reason he seeks to rid our transportation methods of the homeless.
However he should additionally perceive that the homeless are dying.
Audrey Lummer, 63, was discovered useless Feb. 9 on the subway platform on the twenty first Road in Lengthy Island Metropolis. She was homeless. That ought to not have occurred.
I perceive what it's prefer to be homeless. I used to be homeless myself in 1975 after leaving the US Navy on the finish of the Vietnam Conflict.
Our authorities has a duty to assist the homeless or extra will certainly die. An excessive amount of time has passed by, and our homeless would have been forgotten if it was not for the homeless sleeping on subways and other people being pushed unto the tracks. Extra should be achieved now.
Frederick Bedell
Bellerose
Whereas this week may need seen the primary day of the mayor’s new plan to scrub up the subways, he higher hit the bottom operating.
With six outlandish and unforgivable stabbings dedicated final weekend, the mayor is already behind the eight ball.
As everyone knows by now, the NYPD and MTA police wish to do their jobs, whereas the Manhattan district legal professional and different woke prosecutors and judges do all of their energy to undermine justice for the harmless victims of the rails.
It’s previous time for the governor, who appears to be oblivious to the mayhem in New York Metropolis, to get up and confront these points head-on, as a substitute of burying her head within the political sands, and assist the mayor.
Doc Ludemann
Bridgeport, Conn.
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