New York Governer Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday a plan to install surveillance cameras in every New York City subway car by 2025. Hochul said, as ridership numbers are still lagging behind pre-pandemic levels. It also follows several highly publicized crimes that have occurred in the transit system, including the rape of a tourist on a subway platform this month; a mass shooting on a subway car in Brooklyn in April that left 10 passengers wounded; and the fatal shooting of a Goldman Sachs employee on a train in May.
The plan is to help bring back and increase ridership to the NY subway system. Some privacy advocates are worried about the cameras and say the cameras may not necessarily making the subway safer. Subway stations in the city already have surveillance cameras.
What are your thoughts on subway safety? And the installation of cameras on the actual train cars?
