MTA Weighs In On Mayor’s Race, Boosting Candidates That Would Send More Cops To Patrol Subways arrow Police patrol the A line subway train bound to Inwood, after NYPD deployed an additional 500 officers, on February 13, 2021 Bebeto Matthews/AP/Shutterstock The morning after a New York City mayoral debate highlighted fissures in the candidates’ response to public safety, the MTA’s leadership let voters know which candidates support its position that subway crime needs to be addressed with more police officers. Interim President for New York City Transit Sarah Feinberg emailed the city’s press corps Friday about what she called multiple “very serious armed robbery and slashing incidents at stations on the same line.”