Governor Hochul wants police on every overnight subway train.

This seems like a massive effort, and I guess it's to prevent violence and remove unhoused people from cars. She says the state will pay for it.

But does this need to be a police effort? Are there not other city agencies that could be charged to do this, if they were given funding? Some kind of health services or housing agency? Or even some kind of nonprofit or a private security company? I just don't know if police are needed to monitor this behavior. They have a tendency to escalate situations. And if there was another agency, they could always call the police if there was criminal activity.