NYC Placing Gun Scanners In Subway Stations In Effort To Deter Violent Crime

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 13: People walk along the Church Avenue subway station platform as a train arrives amid a winter storm on February 13, 2024 in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn borough in New York City. The biggest winter storm in two years is hitting the Northeast with NYC forecasted to get three to five inches of snow. In anticipation of the storm, Mayor Eric Adams announced that schools would be going fully remote today. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) — People walk along the Church Avenue subway station platform as a train arrives amid a winter storm on February 13, 2024 in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn borough in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

OAN’s Cameron Breckenridge
12:17 PM – Friday, March 29, 2024

Gun detection scanners will soon be placed in the New York City subway system.

The pilot program was introduced on Thursday by Mayor Eric Adams (D-N.Y.) as part of the city’s latest effort to crack down on violent crime underground.

The scanners will be placed in certain stations along the five boroughs after it clears a legally mandated 90-day waiting period.

Adams says officials will work to identify companies with the best expertise in gun detection technology.

Keeping New Yorkers safe on our subways is key to keeping this the safest big city in America.
⁰State of the art weapons detection technology and a $20 million investment in supporting those with severe mental illness will help us make that happen.

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— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) March 28, 2024

The pilot program comes in response to the recent wave of deadly shootings and attacks inside the city’s subway stations. So far in 2024, NYPD has seized 450 weapons in the subway.

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