[500 more officers will patrol the subway. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacked the plan.]

The details

The $249 million plan, which Mr. Cuomo proposed in June, will increase the police presence in the subway by 20 percent over the next four years.

Currently, 2,500 Police Department officers are assigned to patrol the subway. The 500 new officers will work for the M.T.A.

The new measure will add to the transit authority’s budget shortfall, which is expected to reach $433 million by 2023.

The context

The overall number of violent crimes on the subway is down since this time last year, but some crimes, including robberies, are on the rise.

Assaults on transit workers have also increased this year, as have instances of passengers yelling at or threatening other riders. Some of these episodes have been widely shared on social media.

But other videos of officers aggressively confronting black and Hispanic commuters for low-level offenses, like fare evasion, have fueled protests.

One viral video showed officers handcuffing an Ecuadorean woman for selling churros in a subway station. Just weeks later, a lawsuit revealed that multiple police officers in Brooklyn said a commander told them to go after blacks and Latinos and to think of white and Asian people as “soft targets.”