Surveillance camera malfunctions at Brooklyn stations this week have prevented a police manhunt for Frank James, the Brooklyn subway homicide suspect, sources told The Post. The MTA is stepping up its attack on the requirements for providing full recording of its surveillance system, which is supposed to provide live streaming of 5,100 cameras to the NYPD, with another 5,000 cameras recording. But Chris Anguisaca, who was stabbed in the eye by a madman on an A train on Feb. 14, said police told him subway cameras were not working north of 190th Street. The trio started fighting and the perpetrator punched Anguisaka in the face and took out “half scissors”, the victim remembers. “At first he tried to put it around my neck. “He tried to kill me,” he said. Chris Anguisaca was informed by police that the subway cameras were not operating north of 190th Street after he was stabbed in the eye by a crazy man on an A train on February 14th. The man stabbed him in the left eye and then fled when the train arrived at 203rd Street Station. Anguishaka was blinded. “It’s crazy,” Anguisaka said of this week’s subway attack. “There should be cameras, especially at the train station.” The NYPD said an investigation into the Anguishaka attack was ongoing, but did not comment on cameras at the station. Rebecca Lamorte, 30, a disabled activist and former City Council candidate, has twice said she was attacked on the subway – both times authorities said the cameras were out of order. The subway cameras were not working in 2013, when Rebecca Lamorte was pushed out of the subway car at E. 51st St. and Lexington Ave., crushing her foot.Helayne Seidman In 2013, he said, he was getting off train 6 on 51st Street when – “a woman pushed me”. “I thought I was putting my left foot on the platform and it was, in fact, the gap between the train and the platform. “My foot went in, it was crumpled between the train and the platform,” he told The Post. The next morning, he could not walk. The nerves in her left leg are now “completely damaged”, causing her daily pain and forcing her to walk with a cane, he said. “I wanted camera footage. I was told that the cameras do not work there. “They are either broken or do not have a cassette to record something,” he said. “I want to know what happened to me. Ζωή My life is shaped forever from this moment. ” The nerves in Lamorte’s left leg are now “completely damaged”, causing her daily pain and forcing her to walk with a cane, he said. Helayne Seidman In 2015, on a 4/5 train downtown, “a man chose to masturbate on me,” Lamorte said. She was wearing crutches and a bracelet and wonders if the pervert had marked her as an easy target. Again, no material. “I went to the traffic police. “I asked for cameras,” he said. “They said to me again, ‘Oh, no, there are no cameras.’ The office did not even have to examine it. “ “They paid us taxes to put cameras there, but they are not used,” he said. NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Information and Counter-Terrorism John Miller downgraded the role of the cameras, which failed in the investigation to locate James after Tuesday’s attack, saying the MTA provided images from other stations. The members of the Municipal Council demanded on Thursday full control of the system. A 2019 audit by state auditor Tom DiNapoli found that the New York Transit Department did not perform the required preventive maintenance on its security system. Lamorte said transit police told her there were no cameras on a 4/5 train line. Helayne Seidman And when problems were identified, the repairs were not “timely,” the audit said. There were 9,920 CCTV cameras and 334 digital video recorders throughout the system from the 2019 audit. DiNapoli said in a statement that “a lot of time was lost” due to this week’s camera system failure. “The MTA has work to do to ensure that riders feel safe. At the very least, this means making sure that existing security measures work. “New Yorkers are resilient and will persevere, but they deserve the peace of mind that comes from a transit system that puts their safety first,” DiNapoli said in a statement.
