Concerns about the rising danger on New York City's subway system are escalating, with the acquittal of Daniel Penny in the Jordan Neely case adding fuel to the fire.
The acquittal of Daniel Penny on a criminal negligence charge for the death of Jordan Neely, who had threatened other subway passengers, won't protect us from the deadliest subway environment in three decades.
As Imani-Ciara Pizarro, one of two random stabbing victims at Grand Central on Christmas Eve, told The Post, witnesses Causing reasonable people to think twice before helping someone else makes the subways even more dangerous than they are right now — despite Hochul’s absurd rhetoric that they are safe. Her follow-up was hardly better: Thanks to “brand-new security cameras,” Hochul noted, police had arrested a suspect in the arson murder, and added a caveat: “Make no mistake: any crime is one too many, even with subway crime going down.” This year, 12 people have lost their lives to violence on the subway, and most of the incidents have been unprovoked stranger-on-stranger killings. There was the stabbing of Michelle Alyssa Go on a Brooklyn train as she tried to calm a dispute over music, and end (so far) with the Coney Island conflagration. That makes 43 people killed on the subways since March 2020, when three murders within weeks — with few people even This year’s dozen killings smashed the post-2020 record of 11 in 2022 — a year during which concern about subway violence propelled GOP gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin to a near-win over Hochul. For decades prior to 2020, after having stomped out underground violence beginning in 1990 by stopping small crimes before they escalated to big ones, New York clocked one or two subway murders a year. down — at least, not anywhere close to the pre-2020 normal. This year, through November, subway passengers and workers have suffered 947 violent felonies. Yes, that’s 9.5% below last year — but it’s also 14.1% Adjust for lower post-COVID ridership, and the per-ride rate of violence is higher, up by almost two-third
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