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Yes. The subway with my older son Bob Jr. Because the city council politics of a deputy mayor Edward Kavanagh for the. Subways for about two hours and. Quite a few dead. I talked with may have expressed their appreciation for a police protection. The route from twelve to two A.M. and they told them to go that this was not a still one day wonder that this protection will continue and. Also step up the protection on the streets and pox so that the city will be the safest city. In the world. One of the. I thought considering the fact that this is the first night of operation that. The six hundred. Regular policeman of the normally do not. Ever Before I've to any extent patrol the subway system that it went very well it was good saturation in the terminal points that I saw and. The saturation that we'd hoped to in the way of some of the supervisory force the sergeants lieutenants captains and we checked on each station as we went by I found them all covered wanted to leave and I didn't see the policeman immediately got out communicated with headquarters but while we were doing that policeman came because he'd been on the other side of the tracks the other station and I may say too that in talking to some of the employees of the transit authority in the subways. This time every night every morning they. Said that they were far more people using the subway than had in quite some time and this was also the report given to me by Commissioner Scannell. Again we had some four hundred extra men out above the subway on the streets some of the cars were concentrated in the areas near the. Subway exits and entrances to make sure that any crimes. Might have been the thought of. Someone may have thought to commit down below an icon try to do it. On the exits and entrances of the subways. No I didn't. I was. Not that I saw though I was very friendly. And. As I said the other evening this is an emergency. Effort at this time with the. Six hundred extra police and being paid. Up duty and assigned to the subway system have some one hundred fifty to two hundred. Transit police who are being paid overtime for this work until the eight hundred permanent new transferred policeman can be screened take their physical examination and get that training anomaly this takes quite a long period of time we used every means possible to expedite it and these eight hundred men will all be in one class and the police academy and will be assigned permanently to their positions a lot of pod of July at that time that and then be able to relieve those who are now doing emergency duty. That's the purpose yes. Well first place. The Transit Police OPP aid by the city not by the transit authority. Whether they have more men and not does not affect the financial position of the transit of. The mayor number of. The Actually there were fifteen arrests made ten by the police five by the transit police there were no felony arrests. Major Crime or. The night before. For arrests. Certainly indicates clearly with the. Saturation the police arrest were made and greater protection was given to the people they were rest of the ten arrests comprised of two simple assaults to existence of the rest eleven this Audley conduct one and they sent exposure and one arrest for possession of narcotics. Well that can always be argued and it's in there now and intend to step up whole program in the war on crime we have the largest police force in the world we have the greatest coverage on a per capita basis than any other city in the United States has to be done and we're going to do it godless of how much it's going to cost because I think this is in my opinion. The most important issue before the people. Of this program and. At least a million dollars. It costs one million eight hundred thousand dollars a month. When it comes from the general city budget well. Well just let me explain again the fare increase or lack of fare increase has nothing to do with the payment of the police either the transit police or the city police does not come out of the budget of the transit authority. That's right in the process of trying to arrive at a budget we can't do it very clearly until we find out what is happening in Albany and I have said on a number of occasions that we will need taxes for our added expenses and that of what happens in some taxes and. The taxes will have to be used as a means of paying for the cost of this protection and I'm sure that the people of the city of New York are willing to make that sacrifice. Well I am not a member of the state legislature this is not within my province I read the papers I get some report and I think that having some discussion along that line I read in the papers today that the problem seems to be among the Republicans. Well I don't think it should be thought of as a campaign issue. Too important to try to use this for political purposes this is. Has to do with the safety of people. I have no idea what they're going to talk about or who the potential opponents are so I could. But I haven't. I haven't. Seen that Mr guiltily as a candidate. And wish to kill wholly As a matter of fact I met him in the subway. I chance. At fourteenth Street. And he again expressed his deep appreciation for what had been done. To Robin's I don't know how much he knows about. Well. Everybody in this city in this country I suppose has the right to either support or oppose anybody in public office or any group has that right and therefore it is their privilege and right. As I'm concerned isn't going to bother me and in continuing what we have sought to do over these years and that is to give. To all of our people particularly people in this so-called minority groups greater opportunities in housing and education and job opportunities and I know some of these things are. Not spectacular at times the progress that has been made or sometimes it doesn't move as fast as some would like but I'll be glad to match the record of this administration in this area with any previous administration in the history of this city or any administration throughout this any city throughout this country. This is a matter again we. Should leave to. Police experts and so far. Police commissioner and as I know the transit authority has not come out in favor of the dogs because they say they're used in Philadelphia. But the Philadelphy. Respects to the city and the. Transit system is very very tiny compared to the operation of the New York City transit system which is the largest rather than the United States because of traffic blockade the world. The police handled last year very well and the men who. Want to emphasize this who are assigned of the subways are not being taken away from any other areas of the city they are. Now working. Overtime pay and periods when they would be off duty so nobody is taken the policeman is taken away from any assignment in any other part of the city for this work. Morning about. We have the report. To the arrests and he has the same report that I just gave I was wondering whether or not he had any reaction from the police department to what it was and what he was by whether one of the possible changes and I assume that they. Study I know they do and there may be little kinks here and there and they're lying them out I said before I think they deserve tremendous credit because I know I was up in place headquarters yesterday and saw the work of the staff there and getting this set. In an entirely new field for them really in this very short space of time my observation. That I'm well covered. On. First of all I were not into the campaign as yet. And I can get you some clippings from newspapers in the past the second time I ran in the third time I ran how vulnerable we were and so are the newspapers with all due respect to them down elect. People opposed to. Well if and when that's because we can go into those opposed by the administration one of those points as in been a falling off the rail estate values they've have right have increased they have increased over the years because property values are higher than ever before but the argument.