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Mayor Eric Adams has announced a new initiative placing AI-powered gun-detector scanners in subway stations amid a slew of reports of violence on the city's transport system.
The pilot is the latest in a series of moves by the Mayor's office and the NYPD to reassure the public after a run of high profile stabbings, a shooting and other crimes on the network in recent months.
The initiative will see portable Evolv gun detectors placed in select underground locations in an attempt to catch those travelling with weapons.
EVOLV uses AI technology to detect weapons and counts the Met and Lincoln Center among its clients.
'If EVOLV had a 70 percent hit ratio, that's 70 percent more than now' Adams said at a press conference on Thursday.
Mayor Eric Adams has announced a new initiative placing AI-powered gun-detector scanners in subway stations
EVOLV uses AI technology to detect weapons but will not be available for at least another 90 days as the technology undergoes testing
It comes just weeks after the National Guard were also deployed onto the system in the wake of a series of high profile attacks including shootings and stabbings
'This is a Sputnik moment. President Kennedy said let's put a man on the moon and everyone responded,' he added in a bold comparison.
The system pilot may take some time before New Yorkers see the scanners on their commute.
First the technology must be tested and then undergo a 90-day waiting period for evaluation, Adams explained.
Earlier this month National Guard troops were deployed onto the subway system in an effort to make travellers feel safer.
'Public safety is the actual safety and it's how people are feeling,' Adams said at Thursday's briefing.
'We know we have over 4 million riders a day and a reliable system. We know we have approximately six felonies a day out of those 4 million riders' he said.
Adding: 'But if they don't feel safe, then we're not accomplishing our task. Stats don't matter if people don't
