Transport sec. Sean Duffy bangs the Governor of New York Kathy Hochul for the violence of the city metro
Wednesday Secretary of Transport Sean Duffy Gov. York Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), accusing both security risks in the discount in the New York City metro.
“I @mta and @govkathyhochul continue to say that the New York metropolitans are perfectly safe. In the meantime, the criminals continue to terrorize innocent New York,” wrote Duffy in a post on X on a news that describes in detail the recent violence on the New York subway. “We are fighting to make pendularism again.”
In December, a 57 -year -old woman was presumably burned by a illegal migrant from Guatamala in a horrible subway attack.
Less than a month later, on the eve of New Year, a New York City The man was accused of attempted murder after presumably pushing a 45 -year -old man on the trail of the subway.
In 2024, the assaults of the metro crime increased and the murders doubled to 10, reported by Fox News Digital.
However, overall, the metro crime dropped by 5.4%, according to NYPD.
Duffy In March he sent a letter to the MTA, noting that the transit authority of New York City must reduce crime or should have faced federal financing cuts.
Sebastian Zapeta, on the right, was accused of Brooklyn, New York, January 7, for murder accusations and arsoned fire after presumably fire to a woman while sleeping on a New York City metro train. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
“The tendency of violent crime, homeless and other threats to public security on one of the most important metropolitan systems of our nation is unacceptable,” wrote Duffy in the letter. “After years of soft policies on crime, our department is intervening to restore the order.”
The letter requested a copy of the MTA data on Making Evasion, Assaults of workers, attacks with customers and police patrols, Fox News Digital previously reported.
The NYPD investigates after the homeless caught fire in the Manhattan metro station
The members of the NYPD and the National Guard conduct randomized research on the stock exchange in the New York City Metro system, 11 March 2024. The governor Kathy Hochul deployed 750 members of the National Guard to combat an increase of almost 20% of the crime levels during the metropolitans. (Matthew McDermott for Fox News Digital)
He also requested an explanation of how MTA, which is given billions of dollars from federal governmentHe used funding for taxpayers to deal with security and safety problems.
“The commuters are tired of feeling as if they should endanger their safety to get to work, go to school or travel for the city,” wrote Duffy in the letter. “We will continue to fight to ensure that their federal dollars are going towards a crime journey.”
The Dot office, MTA and Hochul did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s comment request.
Anders Hagstrom and Lindsay Kornick of Fox News Digital have contributed to this relationship.
