{"id":525457,"date":"2022-12-12T02:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T23:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hochul-and-other-dems-want-to-normalize-violent-crime\/"},"modified":"2022-12-12T02:35:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T23:35:05","slug":"hochul-and-other-dems-want-to-normalize-violent-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hochul-and-other-dems-want-to-normalize-violent-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hochul and other Dems want to normalize violent crime"},"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-6a35efe1ee091\" 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-6a35efe1ee091\" 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\/hochul-and-other-dems-want-to-normalize-violent-crime\/#%E2%80%9CHochul_and_other_Dems_want_to_normalize_violent_crime%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Hochul and other Dems want to normalize violent crime&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHochul_and_other_Dems_want_to_normalize_violent_crime%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Hochul and other Dems want to normalize violent crime&#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>In late October, after four transit murders in a month, Gov. Kathy Hochul \u201csurged\u201d cops on the subway, allegedly sending 1,200 more officers into the trains daily. It worked \u2014 in getting the governor elected two weeks later. But a temporary police \u201csurge\u201d can\u2019t stop the killings, as yet another subway murder \u2014 the year\u2019s 10th\u00a0\u2014 shows.<\/p>\n<p>Early Thursday, just after midnight, cops found the body of an unidentified homeless man, fatally stabbed, at the West Fourth\u00a0Street station in the Village\u00a0and\u00a0declared the death a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Police have released scant details, but we know enough to know it\u2019s disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>First, homeless men have been disproportionately vulnerable to random crime since New York gave up on maintaining basic order.<\/p>\n<p>There were the four homeless men\u00a0bludgeoned to death on Chinatown streets in an October 2019 rampage. There were the two homeless people, a man and a woman,\u00a0stabbed to death on the subway\u00a0in February 2021 and a third homeless man\u00a0killed on a train that November, all by strangers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0most recently, in March, a homeless man was killed in a random lower Manhattan street shooting.<\/p>\n<p>So another homeless individual mysteriously dead of stab wounds in a Manhattan subway station is jarring.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also jarring to have\u00a0<em>any\u00a0<\/em>more subway killings. This latest victim brings the 2022 total to 10 \u2014 a 43% increase over the total 2021 figure of seven.<\/p>\n<p>That would be bad enough, but killings in 2021 and 2020 (also with seven deaths) were high. Between 1997 and 2019, New York had one or two killings on the subway every year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/subway-stabbing.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Police at the scene of where a homeless man was stabbed to death at the West 4th Street subway station on December 8, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-24977059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/subway-stabbing.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/subway-stabbing.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/subway-stabbing.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Police at the scene of where a homeless man was stabbed to death at the West 4th Street subway station on December 8, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Seth Gottfried<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The crime truthers are always cracking that New York City is safer than it was in 1990. But to find a double-digit annual murder level on the subway, you\u00a0<em>do<\/em>\u00a0have to go back to the early-to-mid-1990s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Third, subway murders are still regularly occurring\u00a0<em>despite<\/em>\u00a0the working thesis of some \u201ctransit advocates\u201d: that as riders returned after COVID, violent crime would naturally fall, as more people would deter criminals. With subway ridership regularly at more than 60% of pre-COVID normal, far higher than in 2020 or 2021, that\u2019s not 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.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, this latest death got almost no public attention.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not an accident. Since Hochul\u2019s narrow victory, Democrats and their far-left supporters are doing\u00a0everythingthey can to normalize higher crime, particularly violent subway crime.\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\/12\/subway-stabbing-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"The fatal stabbing in Manhattan was the 10th subway murder of the year.\" class=\"wp-image-24977057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/subway-stabbing-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/subway-stabbing-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/subway-stabbing-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The fatal stabbing in Manhattan was the 10th subway murder of the year.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Seth Gottfried<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Through various rationalizations \u2014\u00a0<em>10 people is not that many victims in a city of millions, cars are more dangerous, my subway ride was great<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 you are supposed to gradually accept 10 subway murders a year as normal.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>If we have 10 subway murders next year, Democratic pols will say that\u2019s fine: flat over 2022 numbers. See how that works?<\/p>\n<p>If they can win election now with a good percentage of the electorate still in a state of shock over the decline in public safety in New York over the past three years, they figure, they can certainly win re-election later, when we\u2019ve all grown accustomed to it or when the people who don\u2019t like it have left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yes, transit felonies\u00a0<em>are\u00a0<\/em>down 26% over the past month, since the policing surge began \u2014 but even before this latest killing, it was too early to declare victory. The police haven\u2019t provided a breakdown of\u00a0<em>which\u00a0<\/em>crimes are down.<\/p>\n<p>The story of the subways for the past three years has been that nonviolent larcenies have fallen while random violent crimes \u2014 the kind people actually worry about \u2014 have surged. There\u2019s no evidence that has changed in a month.<\/p>\n<p>And the policing surge, dependent on cops working overtime, was never sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>Unless New Yorkers keep up their outrage, they can expect the extra police to melt away as close-election memories fade.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, when I walked through the same West Fourth\u00a0Street subway station last Tuesday evening, two unhinged men were yelling at each other as they propped open an exit gate for people to stream through without paying. They seemed to be fighting over which one of them would get the \u201cdonation\u201d for providing this service.<\/p>\n<p>There was no police presence at what has become a troubled station peopled by vagrants who often prey on each other.<\/p>\n<p>Little more than 24 hours later, someone was dead, and post-election New York got a little more accustomed to what three years ago would have seemed an unfathomable toll.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nicole\u00a0Gelinas is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute\u2019s City Journal.<\/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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