MTA watchdog starts inquiry in broken camera system after subway shooting in New York

A video surveillance camera on the ceiling above a subway platform, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The failure of security cameras in the New York subway station where a gunman opened fire this month is the subject of an investigation. — AP

The Inspector General for New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority has started investigating why the subway’s camera system failed to work at a Brooklyn station earlier this month where a gunman opened fire on a train.

The inquiry will examine the maintenance and repair programme for the equipment, Elizabeth Keating, the MTA’s acting inspector general, said in a statement Monday. The inspector general is an independent agency that serves as the MTA’s watchdog.