Brian Laird on WNYC.

We'll have our usual Wednesday breakdown now of issues that came up at Mayor Adams' weekly Tuesday news conference with excerpts, analysis, and your calls.

Public safety questions took up a lot of time yesterday. The NYPD reported that there was more

crime in the subway system last month than there was in January 2023, but despite it getting

a lot of press, it wasn't much more crime.

The mayor did have a response, however, and we'll talk about that, deployment response.

There were also a couple of videos that went viral and gained traction in the media.

Maybe you've seen them.

One showed officers being pelted by flying objects, mostly bottles and backpacks. This is not the Times Square

incident. This is at the shelter being used to house asylum seekers at Randall's Island. The other

was a performance on Pix 11 News by the NYPD dance team. It was met with an icy reception

and a fair bit of trolling. We'll get into that

and how the mayor explained spending money on this, which by the way the answer is, no,

the city does not spend money on that. And we usually recap these weekly general news conferences

with WNYC and Gothamist reporter Liz Kim. But then Liz is off today. So this week, we're joined by

Katie Honan, senior reporter at the city and co-host of the podcast, FAQ NYC. Hi, Katie. Welcome back to

WNYC. Thanks for having me on, Brian. All these people with families, Liz, so many other people

who take presidents week off.

So here you are.

I'm glad to have you.

There were a lot of public safety questions this week, including one about the NYPD's report

of an uptick in crime in the subways for the month of January.

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