Posted on 10/11/2022 7:11:40 PM PDT by conservative98
The Murder Express is running local.
Killings in the New York City subway system since 2020 have skyrocketed to the highest annual levels in 25 years, even amid plummeting ridership numbers, as the city grapples with an overall spike in random violence, NYPD data show.
Since 1997, the earliest data The Post was able to access, there had never been more than five subway murders in a single year until the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020 and brought that number up to six for the first time in decades.
The next year, murders shot up to eight. So far in 2022, there have already been seven killings.
Together with 2020’s toll, that’s 21 slayings — which is more murders than the transit system saw between 2008 and 2019 combined.
“It used to be ‘I know if I don’t go to this neighborhood, I will be safe,’ but today you don’t have that,” said Professor Maria Haberfeld from CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal, a former lieutenant in the Israel National Police.
“You can take the subway anywhere at any time of day, in broad daylight, and there is no guarantee of safety,” she told The Post.
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You get what you vote for.
Where’s Bernie Goetz when you need him???
By voting against Curtis Sliwa, the people of NYC specifically indicated a desire for more murders on the subway.
One thing we can be sure of: this has nothing to do with the policies or decisions of the current mayor, and he will back me up on this.
Make killing a misdemeanor. /s
Anyone taking the subway in NYC today is a TOTAL IDIOT.
Forget statues to St. George Floyd of Fentanyl. New York City, instead of charging Bernie Goetz, should have statues of him throughout the subway system. They should name an entire subway line in his honor.
Or Paul Kersey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYN41wGmP8U
Here’s an interview with him from 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFHKYaWn5ZE
His poor daughter. First NY, then LA...
Was Bronson Native American?
My mom wanted me to go to the Brooklyn Museum to look at this 17th-18th C door that was in our family. I told her to forget about it. It’s not worth it. Let’s wait. It looks like we will be wating awhile. I did drive in to Rockefeller Center a few months ago to deliver a farm table that an art gallery bought from me on eBay and it was smooth sailing. No traffic.
According to wikipedia Bronson was Lithuanian-American. He was born in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania.
Check out the interview in post 11. It was a good interview.
Interesting. I could never place his look.
Will do, thanks for the heads up.
Yes, Curtis Sliwa and his Guardian Angels helped to make the subways safe. By voting against him, New Yorkers voted to make the subways less safe.
The opening has “The rent is too damn high” guy.
The wonders of mass transit. It’s the future, I tell you.
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