If that sounds like an excessive amount of money to be spending on cops who are famously mostly on their phones or GETTING STURDY 😱👮🏼‚ that's probably because you don't believe in public safety. For your information‚ that extra $151 million in overtime spending‚ a nearly 4‚000 percent cost increase and the result of adding 1‚000 additional cops to patrol the subway system‚ bought us a whopping two percent decrease in "major" crime‚ amounting to a total of 48 fewer serious crimes like murder‚ rape‚ and robbery. The number of assaults on the subway‚ on the other hand‚ actually went up‚ raising the question of whether that decrease can even be attributed to the increased police presence underground.