New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, is asking New Yorkers to send in pictures of NYPD officers surfing their phones at city subway stations.
“You walk downstairs, you see five transit officers standing at the booth looking at their phones,” Adams said Tuesday at a budget briefing.
“If you see it, send me a picture. Let me know,” he added, “because I’ll go to that district the next day and see exactly what’s happening.”
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“Send me a shot. New Yorkers, you see that, send me a photo, and I will be at that station.”
The comments come in the wake of rising crime and the April 12 mass shooting at a subway station that saw at least 10 people wounded by gunfire, according to a report.
Adams has been vocal in his disappointment regarding the NYPD Transit Bureau’s deployment of officers.
“I have been meeting with the chief of the Transit [Bureau] and the police commissioner to talk about better deployment. I want police officers on the train,” Adams, a former transit officer, said.
The mayor also wants the city to crack down on fare evasion.
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“Fare evasion is a problem,” he said. “We don’t want to be heavy-handed — but we do want to return the message that any and everything can’t go on our subway system.”
