Recipe For Disaster: Gov. Cuomo's New Subway Cops In NYC Won't Be Required To Wear Body Cameras

New York City completed its rollout of body cameras on all uniformed patrol officers earlier this year, but hundreds of new cops deployed by Governor Andrew Cuomo to stop fare evasion and homelessness in the city's subway system will not be required to wear them.

This past summer, after the governor became concerned about a reported uptick in fare-beating, the Metro Transportation Authority temporarily diverted more than 400 police officers from commuter trains and the Bridges and Tunnels division into the subway. Those officers will soon be replaced by 500 new state police officers that the MTA is currently in the process of hiring--at a cost of roughly $663 million over the next decade.

Neither of those groups are required to wear body cameras because the new cops are not part of the NYPD.

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