Cops working further shifts within the subway within the wake of a number of surprising crimes — together with a girl fatally torched on a practice — are having their hours lower, however the NYPD is promising replacements, sources instructed The Put up.
The brand new guidelines that went into impact on Jan. 1 slashed the variety of subway extra time hours cops can work in half, police sources stated. Detectives at the moment are being restricted to 40 hours a month whole OT and “not more than two transit particulars,” one longtime cop instructed The Put up.
Officers had been beforehand allowed to do 4 or six of the 7.5-hour underground shifts per 30 days, the cop stated.
The brand new guidelines come after The Put up revealed surprising allegations that ex-top uniformed cop Jeffrey Maddrey was granting extra time to an underling for sexual favors.
Lt. Quathisha Epps, the NYPD’s high earner who made $403,515, together with $204,453 in OT, filed an explosive Equal Employment Alternative Fee criticism making the claims, The Put up revealed in a front-page unique on Dec. 21.
The Put up additionally revealed that First Grade Detective Ingrid Sanders, Maddrey’s driver, was the seventh-highest extra time earner within the division, raking in an eye-popping $163,414 in OT final yr, boosting her whole wage final fiscal yr to $352,462, data present.
Additionally working for Maddrey, Ada Reyes made $42,500 as a brand new police officer in 2019 however her pay jumped to $154,405 in 2024, together with $55,923 in extra time, metropolis data present.
By his lawyer, Maddrey has insisted the intercourse with Epps was “consensual” and denied that he was offering extra time for intercourse.
The police supply stated the division was punishing the unsuitable folks.
“It’s a knee-jerk response that’s not nicely thought out as a result of clearly random violent crime is surging,” the supply stated. “You’re punishing cops and detectives when the abusers had been on the high.”
However the NYPD stated Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch was reviewing extra time administration insurance policies and procedures, “to make sure all extra time is run appropriately and to keep up honor and integrity all through the NYPD.”
“Importantly, there shall be no discount within the variety of police personnel patrolling the New York Metropolis transit system as extra officers shall be deployed on straight time to make sure subway security,” the company stated.
Crime within the subway has been down total up to now this but, however the system has been suffering from a surge in violent crimes lately, together with:
- Debrina Kawam, 57, from Toms River, N.J., was set on hearth on a subway automotive round 7:30 a.m. Dec. 22 as she slept on an idle F practice on the Nonetheless Avenue station in Brooklyn. Guatemalan migrant Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, was charged with homicide.
- Kamel Hawkins, 23, was charged with second-degree assault after he allegedly shoved a whole stranger onto the tracks for no motive on the 18th Road No. 1 practice station shortly after 1:30 p.m. on Dec. 31, cops stated.
- Assaults within the system jumped in December, from 35 to 49 for a 40% as of final Sunday over the identical interval final yr, NYPD information present.
The brand new guidelines additionally restrict the variety of extra time administrative cops can declare to 44 hours per 30 days.
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