Assessing New York City's new safety measures for the subway

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has touted the success of a pilot program pairing MTA police officers with mental health professionals in an effort to make the subway systems safer. The subway co-response outreach teams, also known as the SCOUT Program, focuses on getting New Yorkers with severe mental illness connected to services and supportive housing. Since the program launched last fall, the SCOUT team has moved nearly 100 individuals out of the subway system and into care. CBS News New York reporter Elijah Westbrook has more.

[MotocrossGuru-zfpk]

if you want those metal detectors you need them in all stations not just a few

[LokiTheGodofMischief]

Really? I still see lots of homeless everyday

[coleman]

The world is so crazy; and sometimes pocket knives are useful for other things…won’t be able to travel on transit with this? You are safe in the subway theoretically but weapons are there to balance power dynamics. Now people will just get mauled by fists.

[DisasterMasterK]

Keeping weapons away from people that need them to defend themselves is terrible but that’s what you get from a democratic state

[jamesstpatrick]

Eric let them out. It they kept them in hospital they wont be in your face

[prilep]

Public transportation is eco friendly activity. People are dying to help the environment

[mobettaspice]

I’m not a fan of being scanned #TSA
I always opt out. I’m come in early to get patted down. It does seem like something there will slow things down though. Especially if he gives out false readings.

[oxgsklf]

crime dropped bc police stopped arresting

[Espoboogie]

Sorey. But it got to a point where forcing peopple thqt are not well oit of the station

[dannybx]

Mayor Adams plans never worked. So what's the point of this one?