{"id":235520,"date":"2021-04-26T03:39:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T00:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasio-co-are-still-denying-subway-crime-realities\/"},"modified":"2021-04-26T03:39:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T00:39:54","slug":"de-blasio-co-are-still-denying-subway-crime-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasio-co-are-still-denying-subway-crime-realities\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio & Co. are still denying subway crime realities"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#De Blasio & Co. are still denying subway crime realities<\/strong>”
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Last Wednesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s transit-police chief insisted that \u201ccrime is down significantly\u201d on the subways. Two days later, a homeless man was stabbed to death in a Queens station, the third victim this year. Now, a group of labor leaders representing retail, transit and municipal workers say their members don\u2019t feel safe on the rails. The facts show they are right.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The latest murder was like the first two, in February: Someone stabbed a homeless person (thus far unidentified), this time in an Elmhurst M and R station. Two months ago, two homeless people were stabbed to death along the A line, allegedly by an individual with a history of violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s three subway murders bring the total tally since March 2020 to 10. Before the pandemic, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority saw one or two murders a year. From 2014 to 2019, it took six years to get to 10 murders. In 13 months, we\u2019ve racked up more than a half-decade\u2019s worth of homicides.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other crimes remain high, too, proportionate to ridership. NYPD Transit Chief Kathleen O\u2019Reilly said at last week\u2019s meeting that \u201ccrime in our subways is down 53 percent,\u201d from January to March. Sure \u2014 but ridership, even on a good day, is down 63 percent from pre-COVID levels. Each rider is at greater risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some crimes (besides murders) are up, even without adjusting for ridership. Between January and March, felony assaults were up 8.2 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The only reason crime is down overall is that larcenies (nonviolent thefts) have fallen 70 percent. But larcenies are the result of people being careless: tourists leaving a phone on a seat. There\u2019s less of that, because careless, casual people aren\u2019t going underground.\u00a0<\/p>\n

People who do take the subway feel afraid: Only 26 percent of riders feel safe from crime and harassment on trains, down from 65 percent in the final quarter of 2019, pre-pandemic. In stations, only 34 percent of riders feel safe, down from 70 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Where do people feel the most at risk? Only 16 percent of riders think the Elmhurst station where last week\u2019s murders took place is safe. The customers are right.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t have to be a crime victim to fear crime. It\u2019s scary to be the only person waiting on a train platform, or the only person riding in a car. Yet O\u2019Reilly calls mention of these topics \u201cfearmongering.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t blame her: She works (indirectly) for de Blasio, who has made it clear that he doesn\u2019t want to hear about subway crime. \u201cPeople .\u2009.\u2009. know that the subways are safe,\u201d the mayor said in early April. Polls tell a different story.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s hard to police the subways, when the city\u2019s insurgent \u00adpolitical class doesn\u2019t want policing. We know that people who jump the turnstile are disproportionately responsible for committing violent crimes once they\u2019ve entered the system. Less than a month ago, Ronald Bailey, a MetroCard \u201cswipe seller\u201d \u2014 someone who jams up machines and demands money from people to enter \u2014 allegedly beat a homeless man at Penn Station.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But what police officer wants to interact with a fare-beater in this political climate?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, O\u2019Reilly\u2019s police \u2014 including 644 extra officers since the February double murder \u2014 continue to do their jobs. From January through March, civil tickets for fare-beating were up by 8.2 percent, compared to the previous year, indicating a semblance of normal enforcement, after a near-cessation last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, arrests are way down, by 40 percent. And when the police do make an arrest, prosecutors can delay or avoid justice, undoing all that work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to an internal NYPD analysis, of 580 felony arrests made in transit since March 2020, 54 percent of the suspect already had open arrests. The majority of fresh transit felons, then, already had active criminal cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet many cases are closed. One MTA conductor who suffered an attack in Queens was glad to see her assaulter arrested \u2014 until she received a form letter from the DA\u2019s office informing her that \u201cthe case in which you were a victim .\u2009.\u2009. was recently dismissed due to reasons attributable to the pandemic,\u201d as the \u201cpandemic has had a significant impact on .\u2009.\u2009. the functioning of the criminal-justice system.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

As subways chief Sarah Feinberg said last week, \u201cThe answer to this issue cannot be \u2018just stop talking about it.\u2019 We can\u2019t just pretend that what our customers care about doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor of City Journal.\u00a0<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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