Posted on 04/09/2023 11:06:32 AM PDT by wardaddy
Good for you for intervening and I am amazed by all the videos we now have with bystanders doing nothing—or nothing but recording crime on their phones.
Still, the NYC subways are full of deranged and drugged threats who get in people’s faces and say horrific things, but don’t cause physical harm as long as everyone keeps staring at their own shoes.
The NYC subways were hell zones, like much of the City, in the 70s — and not much better under Koch and Dinkins. That only made the turnaround in the 90s all the more stunning. For all of Bloomberg’s larger (globalist) faults, he really did a good job of sustaining and expanding on Giuliani’s great work.
By the time of the reversion to the usual political management and Covid lockdowns, really only small pockets of the, yes, more “integrated” outer boroughs were still dangerous and beyond the reach of gentrification. Much of Manhattan was strikingly safe 24/7.
Now, of course, the City is starting to sink again, but at least that is starting from a much higher level than some other large US cities.
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