NYC to test gun-detecting full body SCANNERS at subway stations in attempt to crackdown on crime

Mayor Eric Adams has announced a new initiative that will see AI-powered gun detector scanners placed in subway stations, amid a slew of reports of violence on the city’s transportation system.

The pilot is the latest in a series of steps by the mayor’s office and the NYPD to reassure the public after a series of high-profile stabbings, a shooting and other crimes on the network in recent months.

The initiative will see portable Evolv weapon detectors placed in select underground locations in an attempt to catch those traveling with weapons.

EVOLV uses AI technology to detect weapons and counts the Met and Lincoln Center among its customers.

“If EVOLV had a 70 percent hit rate, that’s 70 percent more than it is now,” Adams said at a news conference Thursday.

EVOLV uses AI technology to detect weapons, but will not be available for the next 90 days as the technology is tested

It comes just weeks after the National Guard was also deployed to the system in the wake of a series of high-profile attacks, including shootings and stabbings.

‘This is a Sputnik moment. President Kennedy said let’s put a man on the moon and everyone responded,” he added in a bold comparison.

The system pilot could take some time before New Yorkers see the scanners on their commutes.

First, the technology must be tested and then undergo a 90-day waiting period for evaluation, Adams explains.

Earlier this month, National Guard troops were deployed to the subway system in an effort to make travelers feel safer.

“Public safety is the actual safety and it is how people feel,” Adams said during Thursday’s briefing.

“We know we have more than 4 million riders per day and a reliable system. “We know that out of those four million passengers, we have about six crimes every day,” he said.

Adding: ‘But if they do not feel safe, we are not completing our task. Statistics don’t matter if people don’t believe they are in a safe environment.”

According to Mayor Adams’ administration, police officers seized a total of 450 guns on Thursday, including 21 illegal weapons in the subway system this year.

Earlier this month, National Guard troops were deployed to the subway system in an effort to make travelers feel safer

A harrowing video reveals the moments leading up to a New York City subway shooting where the agitator accuses another man of being a ‘migrant who beats up cops’ in a heated argument

The 36-year-old man, who appeared to start the argument, was shot in the head with his own gun after the other man, 32, wrestled the gun away from him and opened fire.

In separate footage taken after the shots were fired, a train car full of people was seen cowering in fear and pleading for the subway to stand down from crime.

The NYPD also seized 1,515 weapons in the subway system in 2023, including 1,470 cutting instruments and 45 illegal firearms.

The figures reflect a marked increase on the previous year, when a total of 947 weapons were seized, including 912 cutting instruments and 35 rifles.

There have been three homicides at the start of the year, compared to none at this point last year.

However, officials said crime in the metro is down 15 percent so far in March compared to the same time last year.

Despite these high-profile crimes, the city remains shaken.

Just last week, a 24-year-old man pushed a 54-year-old man into the path of an incoming train in East Harlem.

Last month, a subway conductor was also slashed in the neck and last month a 35-year-old was shot dead on the Bronx subway.

Also earlier this month, a fatal shooting occurred on an A train after a fight broke out between two men and the agitator was ultimately shot in the head with his own gun.

The 36-year-old man who was shot accused the other man of being a “migrant who beat up officers” in angry scenes as other passengers rushed to get away.

He was then stabbed and shot in the head with his own gun by the other man, 32, after it was wrestled away from him in a fight on a Brooklyn train.

Separate footage from after the shots were fired showed a train car full of people cowering in fear and pleading for the subway to get rid of crime.

“Where is the NYPD, oh my God!” one woman exclaimed as others said, “close the door, close the door!”

The wild scenes also featured the suspected shooter’s 32-year-old female companion, who appeared to pull a knife from her pocket and stab the other man in the back several times.