Post by Logan on Jan 29, 2016 23:01:53 GMT -6
The NYPD wants to take the unprecedented step of banning career criminals who repeatedly target straphangers from the city’s transportation system, The Post has learned.
NYPD brass said at a Manhattan South Compstat meeting Friday that they would ask the MTA to consider the plan after a rash of underground attacks — although the agency has previously cited legal issues with such a ban, according to law-enforcement sources.
At the meeting, officers complained about pickpockets and sexual predators who are repeatedly arrested for committing crimes on buses and trains but still allowed to ride the systems.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner Dermot Shea brought up one straphanger who has attacked 14 women in 14 years, sources said.
Read more: nypost.com/2016/01/29/the-nypds-unprecedented-plan-to-stop-rampant-subway-crime/
NYPD brass said at a Manhattan South Compstat meeting Friday that they would ask the MTA to consider the plan after a rash of underground attacks — although the agency has previously cited legal issues with such a ban, according to law-enforcement sources.
At the meeting, officers complained about pickpockets and sexual predators who are repeatedly arrested for committing crimes on buses and trains but still allowed to ride the systems.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner Dermot Shea brought up one straphanger who has attacked 14 women in 14 years, sources said.
Read more: nypost.com/2016/01/29/the-nypds-unprecedented-plan-to-stop-rampant-subway-crime/