Union Calls for Meeting With Police Brass on Transit Assaults

Local 100 President Tony Utano is calling for a meeting with Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, Chief of Patrol Juanita Holmes, and NYPD Transit Bureau Chief Kathleen O’Reilly to demand more police presence throughout the transit system to stop the recent rash of violent assaults against transit workers and riders.

Utano said in the letter that transit workers “do not believe the NYPD has their back. They say that they never see uniformed police officers on their buses, and that they never see uniformed police officers on subway platforms. They occasionally see officers near turnstiles where they appear focused on fare-beating.”
 
You can read President Utano’s letter to the NYPD Commissioner here.