The killing of Jordan Neely confounds liberals' priors about homeless services—and conservatives' delusions about 'good Samaritans.'
It’s too soon to say how many New Yorkers feel similarly charitable toward Penny, but they may share that generation’s view of the subway as a zone of mayhem. Indeed, that has been the incessant refrain of Mayor Eric Adams, who regularly decries the city’s crime problem, particularly in the subway.
But the differences between Goetz’s case and Penny’s might be more important than their similarities. The archetypal subway fear is no longer the thief whose predatory self-interest shreds the social contract. Instead, as demonstrated by a series ofin recent years, today’s subway boogeyman is characterized by opaque motivations and unpredictable actions.
The fact that all those interactions never added up to a substantive change in Neely’s trajectory may be typical of a city health system for the mentally ill that the New Yorker recently called a “
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