Security experts say installing such a system in the city's sprawling, porous subway system in a way that would make a difference would be difficult, if not impossible.
FILE - A passenger looks out onto the platform while riding a northbound subway train in 36th Street subway station, April 13, 2022, the site of a shooting attack a day earlier. New York Mayor Eric Adams has floated a high-tech idea of deploying scanners that can spot someone carrying a gun into the transit system before they have a chance to use it.
“Logistically, it would be a nightmare. You’re going to have to tie up a lot of officers doing this,” said James Dooley, a retired New York Police Department captain who served in the department's transit division. “We have hundreds of stations, and the fact of the matter is that putting someone at every entrance to every station is logistically impossible.”
Then, on May 22, another gunman killed a passenger in what authorities said appeared to be a random attack. The screeners can scan 3,600 people per hour, according to the company. They also can produce false positives from items such as Chromebooks, though. Adams has not publicly discussed how much the machines, and operating them, could cost New York City, but Harvin acknowledged the price could be steep.
Violent attacks in New York City's subway system remain relatively rare compared with crime above ground. And the city overall is one of the nation's safest large cities.
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