The head of the MTA is demanding a higher police presence in the New York City subway system after a terrifying mass shooting on Tuesday.
The man who identified alleged Brooklyn subway shooter Frank R. James on the street and alerted police officers of his presence is speaking out. Naveen Dhaliwal spoke to him.
On Thursday, the NYPD released a statement saying that at the time of Tuesday's attack,"cameras were out at three stations due to a technical issue.""In this case, there was a lot of there was a lot of video available and the police used all of it," Lieber said. He believes a sharper focus on quality-of-life violations and crimes like fare-beating will make the subways safer, even if they would not have prevented Tuesday's attack.
"It's been slow in evolving and I'm hoping that the PD - part of what they're going to do in reaction to this awful event is to have that happen. And I'm counting on the NYPD to really attack those problems. I think they will under Mayor Adams," Lieber said."I'm not a criminal justice expert. All I can say is, it happened, and we have to make the subway system safer and make people feel safer.
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