Posted on 11/23/2020 4:58:42 AM PST by karpov
It was 2 p.m. on Tuesday, what would normally have been a busy weekday as Thanksgiving neared. Alex Weisman, a stage and television actor, stepped off a train at a subway station on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and was punched twice in the face by a man who then fled.
The assault injured Mr. Weisman’s skull in two places and tore one of his retinas.
“There was nothing else I could have done to protect myself,” Mr. Weisman, 33, said on Friday. “I am shaken by this.”
The day after Mr. Weisman was attacked, a man was shoved onto the tracks at the Bryant Park station after arguing with another man whom the police believe was a panhandler. On Thursday, a woman was pushed off the platform at the Union Square station by an emotionally disturbed man who appeared to be homeless. She lay between the tracks and avoided serious injuries as a train passed over her.
The three attacks were part of a worrying trend: After overall crime on the subway dropped significantly during the citywide lockdown this spring, violent crimes have started to increase. So far this year, incidents of felony assault, rape, homicide and robbery on the subway have surpassed the number of those crimes committed in the same period last year.
Now, as the financially battered transit agency that runs the system warns of major service cuts and fare hikes if it does not get substantial federal aid, the rise in crime has stirred fears among riders and complicated officials’ efforts to coax people back to the subway.
In recent months, the agency, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo controls, has criticized the New York Police Department for not deploying more uniformed officers to the system.
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But not to a red state.
He should have moved years ago. He's living in a blue culture hell-hole. Now he says he is surprised something went wrong.
Paging Bernie Goetz
Another moment in history brought to you by the Democrats and their policies.
DeBlasio and Cuomo: Partners in Power
“There was nothing else I could have done to protect myself”
Not in New York you can’t...but you must like it that way.
This is on DeBlasio and his “defund the police.”
No wonder, as Colin Flaherty reports, small police departments in Northern California, Oregon and Washington are filling up with former police officers from NY City, Philly, Washington DC, Chicago, Baltimore, etc.
The safety my family comes first, last and always - I’d hightail it out of those s*** hole cities too.
And the solution.
And the solution.
It’s what I did 9 years ago when I left Seattle.
Choose your battles.
We moved from the WDC area several years ago to the SW high desert. It was one of the smartest things we have ever done. More popcorn!!!
Zactly. Arm yourselves, New Yorkers. The law has abandoned you.
It was one of the smartest things we have ever done.
BTW, we started with only 12 acres, but the guy that owns most of the small valley below us as well as another knob and a couple of hollers and streams next to us sold everything. And he sold that las part as a separate, and cheap, 20 acre plot. It’s ours now. One of those hollers is my own gun range/campground. :)
An equally good option.
They trash Giuliani, the guy who cleaned up NYC, took down the mafia and led the city through 911.
Calling Bernie Goetz. Bernie Goetz, please pick up the WHITE Courtesy phone!
I posted on FR Facebook page a copy of an old illustration of the 1880s of why you were safer on the NYC trolley back then than the subway now.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=2836208006624298&set=g.26012226159
Well, you could have pulled out your pistol and shot him.
In the City of New York, even a properly funded police service cannot combat crime effectively because the jails continuously release criminals without bail, as a new state law now requires. This system leaves the police with little capacity to stop serial criminals who do not commit one of the few offenses that still can result in incarceration pending trial. In the earlier part of the year, some criminals committed felonies, got caught, and got released hundreds of times in rapid succession. This pattern can demoralize quickly even the best police force.
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