Daily News Gallery Documents New York City's Subway Crime Through the Decades

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1980's: Police officer Bob Redgrave peers from a car of the N train at the Columbus Circle station on the first night that officers were assigned to each of the 320 subway trains that ran between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. Operation High Visibility was part of Mayor Koch's plan to bolster security and restore public confidence in subway safety.

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