Governor Hochul: “Well, there's just a shock wave that is rippled to our city. It shatters that sense of security that people have when they're working in downtown office buildings and walking on the streets of Manhattan, and it's hard to get that back. What I'm so deeply disturbed by is that we have the toughest gun laws in America. We have just about the lowest homicide by gun rate in America because of our laws.”

Hochul: “We need to increase the ranks of NYPD. They are the best and without a doubt, and they need to have more reinforcements, which is why when it came to a spike in subway crimes last year, I took state money, which is unprecedented to cover the overtime costs of NYPD on all the overnight trains. So people going into their jobs — working late nights as healthcare workers at a hospital or having to go work in hospitality at a hotel or a bar, they could feel secure as well. So that has helped drive down our subway crime numbers to record lows or historic lows in the last few years.”

Earlier today, Governor Kathy Hochul was a guest on LI News Radio with Jay Oliver.

AUDIO: The Governor's interview is available in audio form here.

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