Hundreds of NYPD officers are being moved Monday from their commands to transit hubs across Gotham — as part of the recently launched overnight anti-crime initiative on the rails, NYPD documents show.
The personnel orders were sent department-wide on Friday, and list about 700 officers who are being deployed underground.
The cops come from precincts and other assignments throughout the city.
A number of them are recent police academy graduates.
Two of them are from the NYPD’s Chaplains Unit and several are from headquarters security at One Police Plaza in Manhattan.
Eight of the cops are coming out of the court section, where NYPD cops provide security at courthouses in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens.
The transfers set off alarm bells for some court officers, who say they are already short-staffed, a police source said.
“Courts are already short-staffed,” the source said. “People are waiting almost 40 hours to be arraigned now. They want it to be under 24 hours. There are no cops in the courts as it is. Sometimes you have three cops with 75 people.”
The overnight subway surge began Jan. 20, with 100 cops deployed after several high-profile crimes underground, including a man who was pushed on the tracks in front of a train in Manhattan and survived, and a woman who was fatally set ablaze on a Brooklyn subway car.
Crime overall in the city’s transit system is down 36% so far this year compared to 2024, but misdemeanor assault is up 56% to 106 so far this year over the 68 at the same point last year, NYPD data show.
