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The Issue: The taking pictures on an A practice in Brooklyn regardless of the deployment of police and National Guard.
The sheer violent pandemonium that has grow to be a each day incidence within the New York subway is an absolute shame (“Rush-hr. subway shoot,” March 15).
People who use the subway, particularly these compelled to take action often, should now experience with immense worry and anxiousness on the considered being the sufferer of a criminal offense. This is abominable, and must be successfully remedied.
Recidivist criminals and the mentally ailing are chargeable for the overwhelming majority of this insane mayhem.
Until politicians come to their senses and reinstate bail to carry recidivists accountable — and institute viable options to supervise and attend to the ever-growing variety of mentally ailing who inhabit the subway system — straphangers will likely be left hanging and praying for one thing to quell their justified agitation.
Denis David
East Rockaway
Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams reside in an alternate universe. The former thinks that extra legislation enforcement within the subways will remedy the issue and the latter says the town is secure when it isn’t.
What’s wanted is repeal of the bail-reform legal guidelines, a rise in psychiatric beds and housing for the extra critical, criminally insane offenders.
Police officers are disgusted, and in consequence the NYPD is hemorrhaging officers, as a result of lots of of arrests yield little to no convictions. Anything apart from that’s window dressing.
Jackie Biaggi
The Bronx
Another day, one other violent incident within the subways. This time an harmless passenger, preventing for his life, finally ends up taking pictures the aggressor with the latter’s personal gun.
This comes not even every week after Hochul’s grand plan to ship within the National Guard — with out lengthy weapons, in fact. Hey, Mayor Adams: It’s time to pivot once more. Bring out the large weapons and remove transit crime. Send within the cavalry.
Mike Lapinga
Staten Island
Vivid, horrifying pictures of loopy black males are certain to verify stereotypes and enhance hostility in direction of black males (“Mentally ailing repeat perps in half of assaults on MTA,” March 15).
Mental sickness doesn’t solely have an effect on the poor, black males who occur to wander into the subway and trigger hurt.
Renee Barrett
The Bronx
The subway taking pictures underscores a troubling development in how we understand and reply to acts of self-defense in public transportation.
It is clear that the 36-year-old particular person was behaving aggressively. Witnesses described a tense trade that escalated right into a bodily altercation, resulting in the 32-year-old gaining management of the firearm and in the end utilizing it in self-defense.
This situation bears placing similarities to a different current case involving Daniel Penny, who was arrested and prosecuted in New York for defending himself in opposition to a person threatening passengers on the subway. Penny, just like the 32-year-old on this incident, discovered himself in a scenario the place his security was jeopardized, and he was compelled to take decisive motion to guard himself and others.
George Markos
Eatontown, NJ
A person was shot within the head on the A practice on Thursday, just a little greater than every week after Hochul despatched National Guard troops into the subway to assist cease the surge in violence.
And but a number of good males with weapons — the National Guard — couldn’t cease a nut with a gun.
Vin Morabito
Scranton, Penn.
I might love for each Adams and Hochul to experience the rails every day to work with no safety — solely neighborhood activists and psychological well being advisors by their aspect.
Sara Gershon
Syosset
“Bullet Train” has q new which means in New York — as bullets fly, and so do the passengers.
The deterrent for crime is when transit police and the National Guard are seen really using the trains.
Alongside this, Adams must incentivize extra younger women and men to affix the NYPD.
Peter Cooper
Bronxville
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