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From Today's WSJ.
Hmmm, what happens when the Supreme Court strikes down NYC's unconstitutional firearms permit law and city residents rush to apply for permits and arm themselves?
Typical liberal policy, blame an inanimate object instead of focusing on prosecuting and locking up the bad guys when they're not white supremacists.
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"New York City is considering the use of weapon-detection technology in its sprawling subway system in the wake of Tuesday’s mass shooting and a surge in violent crime this year, officials say.
"Mayor Eric Adams has said in interviews since the shooting in a Brooklyn subway train that cutting-edge screening technology could improve safety in the transit system without disrupting the flow of pedestrian traffic.
City officials said several types of screening technology would be considered, including one that the city has been using since late February in a pilot program at a public hospital.
“Mayor Adams has made clear that public safety is his top priority, and he is willing to test and analyze numerous forms of technology in a legal, responsible way to protect New Yorkers,” mayoral spokesman Fabien Levy said.
The mayor has pushed for public safety as he has eased Covid-19 restrictions and urged New Yorkers to return to their prepandemic routines and commutes. He has created antigun units to remove illegal weapons from city streets and increased officer patrols in trains and stations.
New York Police Department data show that crime has increased in the city and its transit system since Mr. Adams took office. Between Jan. 1 and April 10, the city recorded 617 major crimes in the subway, a 68% increase from the 367 crimes during the same period a year earlier, according to NYPD data. The number of crimes in the subway for 2022 so far is still lower than during the same periods in either 2019 or 2020, the NYPD data showed.
Several violent incidents in the subway have put New Yorkers on edge. In January, a homeless man fatally pushed a woman from a Times Square station platform into an oncoming train, police officials said.
On Tuesday, suspected gunman Frank James shot 10 people on a subway train in Brooklyn, police officials said, leading to a manhunt around the city and prompting the mayor to flood the transit system with additional officers. Some of the cameras in the subway station where the alleged shooter fled didn’t work, according to police officials. Police officers apprehended Mr. James in Manhattan’s East Village on Wednesday.
Peter George, the chief executive of Massachusetts-based Evolv Technology, said his company’s screening devices would have detected Mr. James’s alleged weapon if they had been installed in the subway system.
“If that perpetrator walked through our system, we would have identified he had a gun on him,” Mr. George said. “We were born to solve this exact problem.”
Evolv’s devices use sensors and artificial intelligence to detect guns, knives and other weapons on people as they pass through a screening tower. Unlike with a metal detector, people don’t need to stop to unload their pockets before going through the Evolv tower, according to the company. If the Evolv sensors detect a weapon, then a picture of the person and the location of the weapon are sent to a tablet used by a security officer.
Evolv’s screening systems are part of a city pilot program launched in late February at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, according to city officials. In the coming weeks, the city will conduct an analysis of the program, the officials said.
Evolv’s devices use sensors and artificial intelligence to detect guns, knives and other weapons on people as they pass through a screening tower. Unlike with a metal detector, people don’t need to stop to unload their pockets before going through the Evolv tower, according to the company. If the Evolv sensors detect a weapon, then a picture of the person and the location of the weapon are sent to a tablet used by a security officer.
Evolv’s screening systems are part of a city pilot program launched in late February at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, according to city officials. In the coming weeks, the city will conduct an analysis of the program, the officials said.
Mr. Adams might also face resistance from some city council members who have said they prefer policies focused on combating crime through community-led violence-intervention programs and on improving access to affordable housing and healthcare.
Implementing the technology would also require the approval of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state-controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway system.
A spokeswoman for Ms. Hochul and a spokesman for the MTA didn’t respond to requests for comment. MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber said in a television interview Wednesday that the agency was open to new technology.
The MTA has also worked to add security cameras through the subway.
Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a New York-based civil-liberties group, warned that weapon-detection technology in the subway system could lead to unwarranted searches.
Independent studies of Evolv’s technology have shown that the screening towers can sometimes be unreliable and erroneously identify an eyeglass case for a weapon, Mr. Cahn said."
Mr. George said Evolv’s towers rarely misidentify a regular object for a weapon.
Write to James Fanelli at [email protected]
Hmmm, what happens when the Supreme Court strikes down NYC's unconstitutional firearms permit law and city residents rush to apply for permits and arm themselves?
Typical liberal policy, blame an inanimate object instead of focusing on prosecuting and locking up the bad guys when they're not white supremacists.
.
"New York City is considering the use of weapon-detection technology in its sprawling subway system in the wake of Tuesday’s mass shooting and a surge in violent crime this year, officials say.
"Mayor Eric Adams has said in interviews since the shooting in a Brooklyn subway train that cutting-edge screening technology could improve safety in the transit system without disrupting the flow of pedestrian traffic.
City officials said several types of screening technology would be considered, including one that the city has been using since late February in a pilot program at a public hospital.
“Mayor Adams has made clear that public safety is his top priority, and he is willing to test and analyze numerous forms of technology in a legal, responsible way to protect New Yorkers,” mayoral spokesman Fabien Levy said.
The mayor has pushed for public safety as he has eased Covid-19 restrictions and urged New Yorkers to return to their prepandemic routines and commutes. He has created antigun units to remove illegal weapons from city streets and increased officer patrols in trains and stations.
New York Police Department data show that crime has increased in the city and its transit system since Mr. Adams took office. Between Jan. 1 and April 10, the city recorded 617 major crimes in the subway, a 68% increase from the 367 crimes during the same period a year earlier, according to NYPD data. The number of crimes in the subway for 2022 so far is still lower than during the same periods in either 2019 or 2020, the NYPD data showed.
Several violent incidents in the subway have put New Yorkers on edge. In January, a homeless man fatally pushed a woman from a Times Square station platform into an oncoming train, police officials said.
On Tuesday, suspected gunman Frank James shot 10 people on a subway train in Brooklyn, police officials said, leading to a manhunt around the city and prompting the mayor to flood the transit system with additional officers. Some of the cameras in the subway station where the alleged shooter fled didn’t work, according to police officials. Police officers apprehended Mr. James in Manhattan’s East Village on Wednesday.
Peter George, the chief executive of Massachusetts-based Evolv Technology, said his company’s screening devices would have detected Mr. James’s alleged weapon if they had been installed in the subway system.
“If that perpetrator walked through our system, we would have identified he had a gun on him,” Mr. George said. “We were born to solve this exact problem.”
Evolv’s devices use sensors and artificial intelligence to detect guns, knives and other weapons on people as they pass through a screening tower. Unlike with a metal detector, people don’t need to stop to unload their pockets before going through the Evolv tower, according to the company. If the Evolv sensors detect a weapon, then a picture of the person and the location of the weapon are sent to a tablet used by a security officer.
Evolv’s screening systems are part of a city pilot program launched in late February at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, according to city officials. In the coming weeks, the city will conduct an analysis of the program, the officials said.
Evolv’s devices use sensors and artificial intelligence to detect guns, knives and other weapons on people as they pass through a screening tower. Unlike with a metal detector, people don’t need to stop to unload their pockets before going through the Evolv tower, according to the company. If the Evolv sensors detect a weapon, then a picture of the person and the location of the weapon are sent to a tablet used by a security officer.
Evolv’s screening systems are part of a city pilot program launched in late February at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, according to city officials. In the coming weeks, the city will conduct an analysis of the program, the officials said.
Mr. Adams might also face resistance from some city council members who have said they prefer policies focused on combating crime through community-led violence-intervention programs and on improving access to affordable housing and healthcare.
Implementing the technology would also require the approval of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state-controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway system.
A spokeswoman for Ms. Hochul and a spokesman for the MTA didn’t respond to requests for comment. MTA Chairman and CEO Janno Lieber said in a television interview Wednesday that the agency was open to new technology.
The MTA has also worked to add security cameras through the subway.
Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a New York-based civil-liberties group, warned that weapon-detection technology in the subway system could lead to unwarranted searches.
Independent studies of Evolv’s technology have shown that the screening towers can sometimes be unreliable and erroneously identify an eyeglass case for a weapon, Mr. Cahn said."
Mr. George said Evolv’s towers rarely misidentify a regular object for a weapon.
Write to James Fanelli at [email protected]
