If you need more evidence that charging Daniel Penny with manslaughter won’t make a difference to our three-year-old subway-crime crisis, look no further than the same day’s news: another slaying on the train, the fifth this year and the third with the alleged killer claiming self-defense.
Until we quell danger on the trains, we won’t stop people from reacting to that danger.
Hours before a Manhattan grand jury indicted Penny Wednesday for the death of Jordan Neely on an F train in May, deadly chaos unfolded on a Brooklyn J train.
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
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