☢️ Mayor Adams to roll out "electromagnetic weapon detection systems" in New York subway stations

The NYPD is set to start rolling out new technology that’ll scan straphangers for firearms in subway stations amid a wave of underground violence, Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday.

Hizzoner showed off a freestanding scanner manufactured by Evolv, a weapons detection company, at the busy Fulton Transit Center in Lower Manhattan as he touted details of a soon-to-be-implemented pilot program.

“This is our Sputnik moment,” Adams said. “Like when Kennedy said we’re going to put a man on the moon … Let’s bring on the scanners.”

The mayor wouldn’t say how many of the scanners will initially be set up in the subway system, or at which stations, when the program eventually gets underway in the coming months.