{"id":432784,"date":"2022-04-16T15:33:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T12:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-real-danger-on-nyc-subways-is-crime-not-covid\/"},"modified":"2022-04-16T15:33:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T12:33:21","slug":"the-real-danger-on-nyc-subways-is-crime-not-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-real-danger-on-nyc-subways-is-crime-not-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"#The real danger on NYC subways is crime \u2014 not COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a407eee6a9d5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a407eee6a9d5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-real-danger-on-nyc-subways-is-crime-not-covid\/#%E2%80%9CThe_real_danger_on_NYC_subways_is_crime_%E2%80%94_not_COVID%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The real danger on NYC subways is crime \u2014 not COVID&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_real_danger_on_NYC_subways_is_crime_%E2%80%94_not_COVID%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The real danger on NYC subways is crime \u2014 not COVID&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>A maniac tried to commit a massacre on the N train Tuesday. Thankfully no one was killed, though dozens of victims will now bear the physical and psychic scars of his wicked actions forever.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As so often h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens, New Yorkers rose to the challenge of the crisis. A striking image taken just minutes after the attack depicts wounded people writhing on the subway platform as fellow passengers tend to their injuries. Like a scene out of Mariupol, citizen medics fashion impromptu tourniquets out of hoodies to stop femoral arteries from bleeding out. A woman offers comfort to a suffering victim who clutches his hip in pain.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also striking that everyone in the picture is wearing a mask, as is still required in the transit system. On one hand, the masks show how New Yorkers, despite their noted cantankerousness, are willing to put up with certain inconveniences for the sake of civic harmony. Living in tight corners, we practice forbearance and tolerance.\u00a0And if it makes some neurotics or hypochondriacs happy for everyone to wear a mask or rag on his or her face on the subway, fine, we\u2019ll play along.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/subway-shooting2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Many images from the Brooklyn subway shooting showed New Yorkers helping shooting victims, with everyone wearing masks.\" class=\"wp-image-21908248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/subway-shooting2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/subway-shooting2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/subway-shooting2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Many images from the Brooklyn subway shooting showed New Yorkers helping shooting victims, with everyone wearing masks.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Will B. Wylde\/ESN\/AFP via Gett<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But what sounded like a good idea for everybody in March 2020, when we didn\u2019t know what COVID was, was embraced by the Progressive left as a multifarious tool of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> control and a statement of political orthodoxy. Officials and other officious types busied themselves with promoting mask regulations that no longer make sense from an epidemiological perspective.\u00a0Not to minimize the seriousness of COVID to the elderly or vulnerable, but if you are under 65 and vaccinated and boosted, your likelihood of getting very sick and dying of COVID is, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/31\/briefing\/boosters-cdc-covid-effectiveness.html\">at this point, Infinitesimal<\/a>. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/subway-shooting3.jpg?w=682\" alt=\"The 'N' Line shooting is one more grim statistic to add to an alarming trend: violent crime on the subways soared by 168% in 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-21908286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/subway-shooting3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/subway-shooting3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/subway-shooting3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/subway-shooting3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><figcaption>The \u2018N\u2019 Line shooting is one more grim statistic to add to an alarming trend: violent crime on the subways soared by 168% in 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ARMEN ARMENIAN via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But your chances of being attacked in the subway system are, sadly, much higher.<\/p>\n<p>Our leaders continue to deny this fact. Even in the wake of a mass subway shooting, our local Prog elite\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SternFBSuperfan\/status\/1514609235287425034?s=20&amp;t=SFJmpQB17rp9L0EkVut1OQ\">snapped<\/a>\u00a0self-righteous masked selfies for social media purposes, seemingly unaware that our city is falling apart. <\/p>\n<p>During the pandemic, the subways became a rolling annex of the homeless shelter\/mental illness complex.\u00a0Violent crime has risen at a staggering, unprecedented rate. Citywide, the homicide rate spiked a staggering 47% in 2020. But the rise of violent crime on the subways, compared to ridership, was\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/media4.manhattan-institute.org\/sites\/default\/files\/gelinas-public-safety-nyc-subways.pdf\">shocking, increasing by 168%<\/a> in 2021.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Historically, the city saw one or two subway murders every year. There have now been 16 subway murders since March 2020, when aspiring fashionista Rudolph Dunning made the mistake of letting Ramziddin Trowell through an emergency exit. For his efforts, Trowell allegedly stabbed Dunning to death.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/lander-gounardes-hoylman-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"In the wake of a mass subway shooting, our local Prog elite \u2014 Comptroller Brad Lander (from left) and NY state senators Andrew Gounardes and Brad Hoylman \u2014 snapped self-righteous masked selfies, seemingly unaware that our city is falling apart. \" class=\"wp-image-21908395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/lander-gounardes-hoylman-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/lander-gounardes-hoylman-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/lander-gounardes-hoylman-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>In the wake of a mass subway shooting, our local Prog elite \u2014 Comptroller Brad Lander (from left) and NY state senators Andrew Gounardes and Brad Hoylman \u2014\u00a0snapped self-righteous masked selfies, seemingly unaware that our city is falling apart. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The savage nature of the violence underground has stunned New Yorkers.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>In January, New Yorker Michelle Go was pushed in front of a moving train and allegedly killed by a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/manhattan\/times-square-subway-push-suspect-was-on-parole-past-violent-felonies\/\">seriously mentally-ill man<\/a> who had been in and out of jails and hospitals for decades. One February weekend saw <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/21\/nyregion\/nyc-subway-attacks-stabbing.html\">eight separate subway attacks<\/a>, followed by a savage assault in which a woman was shoved down the stairs at Queens Plaza and then beaten with a hammer to her skull.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also in February, a violent criminal with a history of dozens of arrests smeared his own feces in the face of a woman who rebuffed his crude advances. As he was arrested, he sneered that he\u2019d soon be free. He was right.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/nina-rothchild.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Nina Rothschild was brutally battered with a hammer at a Queens subway station. She said she\u2019s done riding the subway \u2014 and wants lenient state bail reforms \u201cundone.\u201d\" class=\"wp-image-21908495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/nina-rothchild.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/nina-rothchild.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/nina-rothchild.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Nina Rothschild was brutally battered with a hammer at a Queens subway station. She said she\u2019s done riding the subway \u2014 and wants lenient state bail reforms \u201cundone.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">WNBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, our feckless representatives in Albany have \u201creformed\u201d pretrial detention laws, preventing many criminals from being assigned bail or otherwise held in jail. As a result, habitual miscreants are permitted to run wild. Recent efforts to tighten the no-bail laws were cosmetic, and ensure that these predators will continue to harass and terrify New Yorkers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Progs who run New York like to insist that their failures in crime, poverty, education, and housing policy were foisted on them. So instead of confronting real problems, they embrace absurd, pointless measures like mask mandates. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"915\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/ny-post-cover.jpg?w=915\" alt=\"A New York Post front page on January 19, 2022, warned of the growing epidemic of crime on the subways.\" class=\"wp-image-21908503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/ny-post-cover.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1373 1372w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/ny-post-cover.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=915 915w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/ny-post-cover.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=458 457w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/ny-post-cover.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 915px) 100vw, 915px\"\/><figcaption>A New York Post front page on January 19, 2022, warned of the growing epidemic of crime on the subways.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">vmodica<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/frank-james-arrest.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Brooklyn shooting suspect Frank James (above) is now facing terror-related charges after calling Crime Stoppers on himself.\" class=\"wp-image-21908509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/frank-james-arrest.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/frank-james-arrest.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/frank-james-arrest.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Brooklyn shooting suspect Frank James (above) is now facing terror-related charges after calling Crime Stoppers on himself.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While New Yorkers have done everything we can to protect ourselves from harm, our leaders have done nothing to protect us from the scourge of mentally ill homeless people on the subways. They have allowed us to become sitting ducks.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for New Yorkers to force our leadership class to end their charade of caring and \u201csafety,\u201d and start dealing with the actual harms that are destroying our city.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Seth Barron is managing editor of The American Mind. His book on the Left\u2019s war against local control is forthcoming.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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