Hochul’s latest subway safety gimmick isn’t a fix for violence, crime

Gov. Hochul pledges two cops on every overnight subway train.

It's the latest in a trifecta of subway-crime gimmicks, none of which address the system's underlying problems.

In 1965 , violent crime was becoming a problem for the first time ever on the previously safe subway system.

Nicole Gelinas : It's fine that Hochul wants to pluck a good idea out of the 1960s .

But without succeeding in at least a partial return to pre-1970s philosophies, it's an exercise in nostalgia.

Gelinas says it's not clear whether an officer a subway car away could have prevented some crimes.