{"id":178414,"date":"2021-02-15T04:01:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T01:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/soaring-crime-is-killing-nycs-subway-system\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T04:01:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T01:01:21","slug":"soaring-crime-is-killing-nycs-subway-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/soaring-crime-is-killing-nycs-subway-system\/","title":{"rendered":"#Soaring crime is killing NYC’s subway system"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Soaring crime is killing NYC’s subway system<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Two more straphangers met their gruesome end on Gotham\u2019s subways over the weekend, bringing the transit-murder total in just over a year to eight. Before 2020 and 2021, it took five\u00a0years for eight murders to occur on transit \u2014 and that was with much higher ridership.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe events of the last 24 hours are horrifying,\u201d says acting New York City Transit boss Sarah Feinberg. Yes, indeed.<\/p>\n

The latest victims are a 44-year-old woman and an adult man, stabbed to death by an app<\/a>arent stranger on two separate A trains. Two others were assaulted in the same 24 hours, possibly by the same attacker.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just dumb luck that even more people haven\u2019t died. A day before the two murders, a teenage boy was the most recent near-victim, tumbling to the tracks during a violent robbery. Over the previous week, almost a dozen people fell prey to various slashings and pushings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The statistics back up the anecdotes. In January, though robberies fell, assaults were up an eyewatering 27 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That follows a year during which violent transit crimes were consistently way up. Six murders in 2020, double the 2019 number. All of the murder victims were minority men. Seven rapes, more than double the previous year. Nearly 600 robberies, up 4 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an amazing feat, when ridership was at a tiny fraction of \u201cnormal\u201d during March, April, May and June\u00a0and is still only at 30 percent of 2019 figures. Plus, the subway is closed four hours a night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no coincidence, either, that crime enforcement \u2014 or, more accurately, crime prevention \u2014 was also way down last year. Arrests for beating the fare fell by 84 percent, for example. Civil summons fell 57 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This, when fare evasion and other low-level violations, like smoking, are rampant. \u201cPeople are jumping the turnstile, nobody pays for it no more,\u201d one rider told The Post. \u201cYou need more cops on the subway.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

At least one-third of last year\u2019s alleged subway killers beat the fare to enter the system.<\/p>\n

What will it take for the mayor\u00a0and the \u201ctransit-advocacy\u201d community\u00a0to protect terrified commuters, most of them essential workers? \u201cWe\u2019ve been calling for more NYPD officers\u201d for a year, says Feinberg. \u201cI want people to see a uniformed presence throughout the system.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Riders know how dangerous things have gotten. Last week, an immigrant construction worker went to accompany his girlfriend home from work on the subway \u2014 because, at the late-night hour of 8 p.m., he thought it was dangerous; he got stabbed in the stomach.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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NYPD officers at the scene of a stabbing at the 207th Street subway station on February 13, 2021.<\/figcaption>
Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a regular MTA poll in October 2020, only 42 percent of riders said they felt safe from crime on subway trains, a huge decrease from the 67 percent who felt secure the previous year. They are right.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The mayor, though, lives safely in blithe de Blasio Land. The week before the latest murders, Hizzoner\u2019s response to the spate of shovings and stabbings was to say that the subways are safer than they were in 1990. \u201cI remember when the subways were not safe at all,\u201d he reminisced.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The NYPD said it would deploy 500 more officers underground. But cops can only do so much, unless the city keeps violent offenders behind bars; the suspect in this attack was freed in January on a pending felony assault charge.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s \u201ctransit advocates\u201d studiously ignore subway crime, because fixing it might involve policing, and acknowledging the need for police might look racist on Twitter<\/a>, never mind what the actual riders want.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Transit advocates spent most of last week shaming the MTA for having removed a station bench, because benches are apparently appropriate shelter for vulnerable and\u00a0mentally ill homeless people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As for the homeless advocates? Last seen, they were suing the MTA \u2014 to secure for homeless people a right to live on the subway. The suit offers no acknowledgment that living on trains or in stations is perilous for disoriented or addicted people, even when murderers aren\u2019t on the loose. At least four homeless or mentally ill people have died on the tracks lately, including the naked, mentally ill young man electrocuted on the rail in January after first pushing a commuter to the tracks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New York needs to understand: There is not going to be a magical return to \u201cnormal.\u201d This is normal. Transit ridership will remain at \u00adseverely depressed levels indefinitely. We need a better strategy than wishing it were 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nicole Gelinas is a Manhattan \u00adInstitute senior fellow.<\/em><\/p>\n

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