Crime is soaring in the city’s subway system — and transit police bo🌳sses were summoned to headquarters to explain the ala𝄹rming spike, The Post has learned.
Overall subway crime is up almost 20 percent in th༺e month ending Sunday compared with the same period in 𓆉2014, fueled by robberies and grand larcenies, police data show.
Subway robberies have soared 65 percent in the past 28 days through June 14, and have🐓 risen 10 percent this year, the data show.
Chief of Department James O’Neill and NYPD Transit Chief Joseph Fox called in commanders for a three-hour Compstat-style meeting at police headquarters — the first of its kind during 🐬Commissioner Bill Bratton’s second stint as to🐲p cop.
“There has been a spike, mor🅷e so in Manhattan than ♏other boroughs, in crime recently,” Fox, who noted overall subway crime fell 12 percent in the past week, told The Post.
“This was the perfect time, with an inc꧅rease in Manhattan, with a spike in assaults.”
🍃The meeting last Thursday morning at 1 Police Plaza included commandin൲g officers, detective sergeants and lieutenants from transit bureaus all over the city.
O’Neill and Deputy Commissioner of Operations Dermot Shea grilled them about repeat subway criminals and how cops ar𒐪🍎e deployed, law-enforcement sources said.
One recent transi✨t crime brought up was that of a ride💯r attacked with a beach chair by a homeless man.
Detectives also were told to obtain more surveillance for underground crimes, law-enforcement sources add๊ed.
Commanding office🐽rs also talked to one another about their 🐼subway lines.
“🌞This is an opportunity for us to say this is what’s happening on the whole line,” Fox said.
The NYPD has also begun introducing peer training — where veteran transit cops pair up with rookies and teach them how to spot criminals s💙uch as pickpockets.
“Half of victims don’t know they’re crime victims until 🌄hours later because it’s pickpockets, it’s larcenies from sleeping passengers,” Fox said.
The departmenꦛt 💦also added overtime in April and more cops in Manhattan.
Transit cops also have been taking to social media to fight crime♋, including sharing subway safety tips on Periscope.
Overall, arrests are down this year in the city’s transit bureaus by 15 percent. This includes a 50 percent drop in panhanꦆdler arrests.
Turnstile-jumping busts have risen in the past 28 days, but are down 1ꦜ4 percent for the 🐲year.
🦋Many subway riders🦩 said Monday they want to see more cops.
“You never know when somebody is goin♔g to push you,” said Chrissy Joseph, 52, of Brooklyn. “More police in the station would help. When I see the cops, I feel saf🎶e.”
Marie Sonko, 34, said recentl🥀y saw a beast pummeling his girlfriend on the A train.
“I think they nee꧟d more of a police presence ജin the cars,” Sonko said.
Additional reporting by Sarah Trefethen and Natasha Velez