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ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Two people were killed and four were injured over the weekend. • 5 min read String of subway stabbings hits NYC The NYPD is stepping up patrols after two people were killed and two others injured. Dakota Santiago/The New York Times via Redux Advocates for homeless people have raised concerns about the move to deploy more than 600 New York City uniformed police officers to patrol the subway system in the wake of deadly stabbings. Two people were killed and four were injured in a rash of stabbing attacks over the weekend. All of the victims appeared to be homeless. ....
AerialPerspective Works/iStockBy MARLENE LENTHANG, ABC News (NEW YORK) More than 600 New York City uniformed police officers are being deployed to patrol the subway system in the wake of last week's deadly stabbings.Two people were killed and four were injured in a rash of stabbing attacks over the weekend. All of the victims appeared to be homeless.Transit Chief Kathleen O'Reilly said 644 officers will patrol platforms, inspect trains, secure entryways and ride in subway cars for the "foreseeable future."But homeless advocates argued the heavy police presence won't protect vagrants in need of shelter."Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo need to respond not with more stigmatization and callousness toward people without homes, or heavy-handed police removals, but with real and immediate access to housing for unsheltered New Yorkers," Giselle Routhier, policy director at the Coalition for the Homeless in New York, told ABC News.She pointed out that off ....
A vigil was scheduled for Monday afternoon by elected officials to honor the victims attacked by a Brooklyn man along the A subway line Friday and Saturday.. ....