National Guard to Check Bags on NYC Subways After High-Profile Crime Spree

More than a thousand state troopers, transit workers, and members from the New York National Guard will soon be dispatched to patrol New York City’s subway stations and to check bags—a drastic move Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday.

The governor said the increase in law enforcement is part of a five-point plan to increase safety and rider confidence in the subway system, which has fallen victim to high-profile crimes in recent months.

One of the most publicized incidents occurred Thursday, when a subway conductor was slashed in the neck on an early-morning Brooklyn train—a random attack that authorities said likely would have killed the conductor had a doctor not been aboard the train to hear his screams for help.

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