{"id":451800,"date":"2022-05-24T05:23:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T02:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-subway-slay-is-sad-proof-that-working-from-home-is-safer\/"},"modified":"2022-05-24T05:23:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T02:23:53","slug":"nyc-subway-slay-is-sad-proof-that-working-from-home-is-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-subway-slay-is-sad-proof-that-working-from-home-is-safer\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC subway slay is sad proof that working from home is safer"},"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-6a40cc5441385\" 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-6a40cc5441385\" 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\/nyc-subway-slay-is-sad-proof-that-working-from-home-is-safer\/#%E2%80%9CNYC_subway_slay_is_sad_proof_that_working_from_home_is_safer%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;NYC subway slay is sad proof that working from home is safer&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-subway-slay-is-sad-proof-that-working-from-home-is-safer\/#Effects_of_COVID\" >Effects of COVID<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-subway-slay-is-sad-proof-that-working-from-home-is-safer\/#No_law_order\" >No law &amp; order<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNYC_subway_slay_is_sad_proof_that_working_from_home_is_safer%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;NYC subway slay is sad proof that working from home is safer&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Nicole Gelinas\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>So now everyone at Goldman Sachs knows that a colleague, 48-year-old Daniel Enriquez, was shot by a stranger at point-blank range riding the subway Sunday to mid-morning brunch, dying in the Q train car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How do you think that\u2019s going to work out for getting bankers and other professionals back into Manhattan?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There have been 18 victims of subway homicide since March 2020, each one a preventable tragedy. And each one a message to the rest of New York that it\u2019s unsafe to ride the rails.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Travel<\/a>ing across the Manhattan Bridge from affluent Park Slope to affluent Manhattan, Enriquez was minding his business on a ho-hum ride. Then a person on the train car, pacing up and down, picked him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whether the suspect was motivated by racial animus, a perceived slight, or nothing \u2014 who knows?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing Enriquez could have done to prevent his own death \u2014 except not take the subway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In this, Enriquez has a grim postmortem kinship with Michelle Go, the 40-year-old Deloitte executive shoved by a stranger to her death under a Times Square train in January. Like Enriquez, Go, once in the subway system, was defenseless.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Go\u2019s death shocked her Deloitte colleagues, and Enriquez\u2019s murder will do the same for people in the close-knit financial industry.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-256.jpg?w=682\" alt=\"Daniel Enriquez\" class=\"wp-image-22384427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-256.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-256.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-256.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-256.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><figcaption>Daniel Enriquez reportedly started riding the subway again just two weeks prior to the gruesome shooting. <\/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\/05\/gelinas-working-home-261.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Daniel Enriquez.\" class=\"wp-image-22384434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-261.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-261.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-261.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The alleged shooter had no connection to Enriquez. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you\u2019re a white-collar worker, you can still convince yourself, most of the time, that you are pretty safe from violent crime and that you can make yourself safer: Don\u2019t wear your expensive watch outside. Don\u2019t wander the streets at 2 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So the more than 50 percent increase in murders over the past two years largely doesn\u2019t affect the Park-Slope-to-Tribeca crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Except for subway crime. Transit violence does affect \u2014 literally, in this case \u2014 the brunch crowd. It is so rattling because it is almost entirely random. In 16 of the 18 subway murders over 26 months, only two perpetrators are believed to have known their victims.\u00a0<\/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\/05\/gelinas-working-home-259.jpg?w=682\" alt=\"Michelle Go\" class=\"wp-image-22384430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-259.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-259.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-259.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-259.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\"\/><figcaption>Michelle Go was shoved by a stranger to her death under a Times Square train earlier this year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Go and Enriquez represent half of this year\u2019s subway-murder victims. It\u2019s hard to remember the last year that two professional workers lost their lives to random violence on the daytime subway. But you\u2019d have to go back to \u2014 yes \u2014 the early 1990s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Effects_of_COVID\"><\/span>Effects of COVID<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Until COVID, the near nonexistence of violent crime on the subways was a proxy for the near nonexistence of truly random crime in the city. Between 1997 and 2019, one or two people a year were murdered on the subway, against nearly 2 billion passengers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before COVID hit, it took 11 years \u2014 2009 to 2019 \u2014 for 18 people to lose their lives on the subway, the same number of lives lost since COVID.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019ve compressed more than a decade of subway murders into little more than two years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a dizzying change in public safety, and a far greater change than anything 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>ening above ground. We\u2019ve gone from essentially no risk to an unpredictable but real risk.\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\/05\/gelinas-working-home-260.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"NY Subway crime\" class=\"wp-image-22384431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-260.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-260.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-260.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>There have been 18 victims of subway homicide since March 2020.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">J.C.Rice<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you are an affluent investment-bank researcher, corporate consultant, lawyer or techie, it\u2019s perfectly rational to avoid the subway. The 40% of \u201cmissing\u201d riders, relative to 2019, are mostly people who don\u2019t have to take the train if they don\u2019t want to.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The transit-advocacy community can argue all it wants that the train is still pretty safe if you\u2019re not the unlucky target who stands out for some reason to the crazy killer. But nobody wants to risk being trapped between stops with an armed insane person.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And as my friend who avoids the subway told me recently, he\u2019s not really that worried about being murdered. He\u2019s just tired of the constant harassment, which is a near-certainty on any ride.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"No_law_order\"><\/span>No law &amp; order<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The mayor is doing what he can, or some of what he can. Police enforcement of things like fare-beating was up 61% last month, since last April. The number of civil summonses is back up to pre-COVID levels.\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\/05\/gelinas-working-home-257.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan\" class=\"wp-image-22384428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-257.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-257.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/gelinas-working-home-257.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mayor Eric Adams is encouraging JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon to ride the subway. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But arrests remain down. And the people the police do arrest in the subway, including for gun possession, are put right back on the street by prosecutors, judges and lawmakers. The suspect in Enriquez\u2019s death, Andrew Abdullah, has a long violent history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Mayor Adams exhorted JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon to take the train, to create a good example. But Enriquez is the example that the work-from-home crowd sees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor at the Manhattan Institute\u2019s City Journal.\u00a0<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\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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