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Subway shooting heightens NYC mayor’s focus on rising crime

FILE - A passenger looks out onto the platform while riding a northbound train in 36th Street subway station where a shooting attack occurred the previous day during the morning commute, April 13, 2022, in New York. Mayor Eric Adams, a former New York City police captain, took office this year with a central focus on making the city feel safe and trying to return it to some sense of normalcy post-pandemic. But the first 3 1/2 months of his administration have been beset by a string of high-profile violent incidents, with the Tuesday, April 12, shooting on a subway train the most terrifying and public of all. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) FILE - New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during a news conference at City Hall, Jan. 24, 2022, in New York. Adams, a former New York City police captain, took office this year with a central focus on making the city feel safe and trying to return it to some sense of normalcy post-pandemic. But the first 3 1/2 months of his administration have been beset by a string of high-profile violent incidents, with the Tuesday, April 12, shooting on a subway train the most terrifying and public of all. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) FILE - New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during the news conference at Harlem Hospital after the shooting in Harlem on Jan. 21, 2022, in New York. Adams, a former New York City police captain, took office this year with a central focus on making the city feel safe and trying to return it to some sense of normalcy post-pandemic. But the first 3 1/2 months of his administration have been beset by a string of high-profile violent incidents, with the Tuesday, April 12, shooting on a subway train the most terrifying and public of all. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File) FILE - New York City Police Department personnel gather at the entrance to a subway stop in the Brooklyn borough of New York, April 12, 2022. Mayor Eric Adams, a former New York City police captain, took office this year with a central focus on making the city feel safe and trying to return it to some sense of normalcy post-pandemic. But the first 3 1/2 months of his administration have been beset by a string of high-profile violent incidents, with the shooting on a subway train the most terrifying and public of all. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) FILE - New York City Mayor Eric Adams speaks during the New York State Democratic Convention in New York, Feb. 17, 2022. Adams, a former New York City police captain, took office this year with a central focus on making the city feel safe and trying to return it to some sense of normalcy post-pandemic. But the first 3 1/2 months of his administration have been beset by a string of high-profile violent incidents, with the Tuesday, April 12, shooting on a subway train the most terrifying and public of all. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)