Feeling Safe on The Subway

An article by Ann Ley in last week’s New York Times begins:  “A string of frightening attacks in the subway amid a broader increase in crime in the system so far this year has put some New Yorkers on edge.”  The article goes on to discuss what experts believe the city and transit authorities must do to make riders “feel” safe.  While data suggests that subway crime is down slightly compared to last year, subway riders do not feel safe.  As Ann Coulter notes in a recent piece on the subject,  “the experts’ ideas were not aimed at actually reducing crime — which to be fair, is impossible if you’re not allowed to put criminals in prison—but to “ease riders’ fears about the subway.”

The suggestions include random bag checks, X-ray machines to find guns, new fare gates that are harder to jump and more lighting.   Bag checks and X-ray machines might screen out some guns, but quite a bit of subway crimes does not involve guns.  As Coulter notes:  “Just this Monday, a 52-year-old man was stabbed in the neck on a J train; a 21-year-old woman was stabbed at the Franklin Avenue station; and, at 7 p.m., a 54-year-old man was killed at the 125th Street station after being pushed onto the tracks of an incoming subway train by career criminal Carlton McPherson.”

More lighting?  Coulter continues:

“…lighting has done absolutely nothing to impede violent crazies, as evidenced by the vast collection of well-lit videos showing monstrous crimes being committed on the subway. The last video I saw of an Asian man being punched and choked on a subway was so well-shot it could have been nominated for best cinematography.

Other nominees include:

— Video of a psychopath attempting to rape a woman on a Lexington Avenue subway platform at 11 a.m. one Saturday.

— Video of a psychopath smashing human feces into a woman’s face at a Bronx subway station.

— Video of a psychopath punching and kicking a woman in the face at a subway stop in Jamaica Queens (leaving her blind in one eye).

— Multiple videos of psychopaths shoving bystanders onto the train tracks — in the Bronx, at the Times Square station, at the Union Square station, at the Hunter College station, at the 53rd and Fifth Avenue station, etc.

Thanks to the well-lit videos, the suspects are usually apprehended within hours, as soon as facial recognition software connects them to their previous mugshots. (The phrase “previous mugshots” is a big, juicy clue if you’re tackling the “how to stop crime” challenge.)

For example, the broad-daylight rapist had already been arrested at least 14 times. Each time, D.A. Bragg simply let him go. The feces assailant had a slew of arrests for assault, theft and hate crimes, but the Bronx D.A., Darcel Clark, also kept unleashing him on the public for more rollicking fun.”

The solution to the subway crime problem is the same as the solution to the street crime problem in New York City . . . Start cracking down on criminals.

Alvin Bragg, Darcel Clark and other Soros-funded district attorneys refuse to prosecute most criminals and most are released shortly after arrest because of New York’s zero bail law. Coulter again:

“The Times Square subway shover has racked up a half-dozen prior arrests for things like beating and kicking a 57-year-old woman in the face, scratching a woman in the eye, stealing a woman’s cellphone, repeatedly punching an 18-year-old woman in the face and biting her. Released, released, released, sentenced to death and released again. One of those is fake.”

People are not going to “feel” safe on New York subways until city and state leaders take real action to actually make them safe.  In most cases that means replacing the politicians who’s policies caused the increases in crime.