In response to a rise in violent crime in recent months, New York City mayor Eric Adams ( D. ) announced on Thursday that the city would begin using gun scanners in its subway stations.
Adams unveiled a standing weapons sensor at Manhattan’s Fulton Transit Center on Thursday. ” This is our Sputnik time. Like when Kennedy said we’re going to throw a man on the moon… this take on the scanners”, the governor said, adding that the weapon detection system would certainly report any commuter’s face or identification.  ,
Adams noted that the new technologies may help NYPD officers to record commuters as they pass through the scanners. A gun’s location may show up as peach on the screen, enabling officers to do an instant search.  ,
Due to the city’s Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology Act, which requires the NYPD to wait at least 90 days before installing a surveillance system at a new location, the gun detectors wo n’t be in use until late June. The exact devices have already been installed at some facilities in the Big Apple, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, CitiField facility, and One Vanderbilt.
Adams’s news came after he surge-crime”>dispatched 1, 000 officials in February to the city’s underwater transit program in response to a boom in murders, criminal attack, and great larcenies. Earlier this month, New York governor Kathy Hochul ( D. ) deployed 1, 000 troops and police officers, including 750 National Guard members, to patrol and” conduct bag checks in the city’s busiest stations”.
