Yet another episode of violence happened at the Brooklin subway station.
A man dressed as a subway attendant and wearing a gas mask opened fire, injuring sixteen people. (source: La Provincia di Como)
State Governor Kathy Hochul made no secret of her frustration at yet another episode of gun violence, pledging to fight the phenomenon, along with New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
The stranger was inside a subway car, and suddenly he opened fire. The result was that he seriously injured sixteen passengers after launching a toxic gas inside the metro.
Unfortunately, the New York subway is the primary means of transportation for New Yorkers, one of the largest and busiest lines in the world, with millions of passengers passing through it daily.
Baku, Tokyo, London, Brussels, Moscow, St. Petersburg. There were many terrorist attacks that, in recent decades, have hit the most well-known underground lines in the world. The worse was in London in 2005. (source: La Provincia di Como)
Now, fear returns to New York. The shooting in the subway station in Brooklyn plunges the Big Apple back into terror by bringing to mind the darkest pages of its recent history, made up of a long series of attacks. (source: La Provincia di Como)
According to its official site, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) is the largest and one of the oldest municipal police departments in the United States, with approximately 36,000 officers and 19,000 civilian employees.
"In the past 25 years, the department has achieved spectacular declines in both violent and property crime, ensuring that New York City has the lowest overall rate of major crimes in the 25 largest cities in the country" we also read on the site.
Mayor Eric Adams intends to increase the number of police forces, hoping to increase general safety in public transportation. (source: NBC News)
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