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Metro-North Honors Employees by MTAPhotos Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) officials today recognized and commended employees of Metro-North Railroad and the MTA Police Department who on Tuesday, Jan. 14, found a 10-year-old girl in the Bronx who had been reported missing a day earlier, and reunited her with her family. From left to right: Acting MTA Police Chief Joseph McGrann, Officer John Casiano, Liutenant Henry Lennon, Metro-North Railroad President Catherine Rinaldi, Conductor Ninan Jacob, Assistant Conductor Rod Milhouse. (Photo: Patrick Cashin/Metropolitan Transportation Authority) Photo: Patrick Cashin/Metropolitan Transportation Authority https://flic.kr/p/2ixbYTu

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Via Flickr: Hurricane Irene: MTA Police finished securing Grand Central Terminal after the last trains departed. Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Marjorie Anders. All NYC has an eerie ghost-town feel to it today, 8/27/11.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police secure Grand Central Terminal after the last trains departed earlier today (August 27, 2011). Photo by Marjorie Anders, h/t Bernard Gershon.

As a person who is chasing a career in Law Enforcement and as a constant rider of the subway system I can say that safety on the subway is a cheif concern of mine. We have all heard on the news of the robberies and the other assorted acts of violence that happen within the system. I also know we have heard the addage "Tell a Police Officer or an MTA employee" the police officer fine but I must ask what the hell is an unarmed clerk outside the safety of his bullet proof booth going to do against a gun toting or a knife toting idiot? threaten to call the cops? ,and possibly end up a part of the death toll of the criminals rampage. With the Exception of the train stations where the MTA Houses the NYPD Transit Districts I have to ask Where are the Police?, and as Well Where is the MTA's Standing Police Force? (which in the 3 years ive known they exist ive seen them twice). See to Me In this post 9/11 world where terror threats run more rampant then hordes of reality show cast members whos smiles are more fake then the botox that is used to keep them from wrinkling( god forbid that happens). Instead of having police go to trainstations on days where random searches are called for have them there all the time and even have the MTA Police supplement them (theres all of 1000 of them). I know that crime is inevitable and will happen but increasing the presence of law enforcement in trainstations will work wonders towards reducing crim in the subway system overall.   Sad to Say that these problems will continue to run rampant throughout the system for years and to me if one person in the MTA or the NYPD reads this and spreads the word about my ideas and in the highly unlikely event any of this will be implemented. I will be satisfied knowing that my ideas at least opened a dialouge aimed towards the improvement of one of the Largest Transit Systems in the world