After every violent subway crime, the New York Times tells us not to worry: Subway violence is “perception,” not reality.
The Adams administration has joined the gaslighting, with officials promising us last month that things were getting better; we just didn’t know it yet and had to trust them because we didn’t have the data.
Now we have the stats, and they’re bad.
How “rare” is subway crime? It’s so rare, the Times has to keep reminding us so.
In mid-March, after Gov. Hochul deployed the National Guard underground, the paper reassured us this move was silly — “dramatically violent” incidents are “rare.”
A week earlier, another Times piece, rattling off four recent attacks — stabbing, hammer, slashing, bottle — told us they’re “rare.”
In February, after the year’s third random subway murder, the Times informed us (twice): “Killings on the subway are rare.”
Earlier, after 2024’s second random subway murder, the paper told us underground violence is “especially rare” and, for good measure, “especially unusual.”
In January, after the year’s first random subway murder, we learned such subway shootings are — you guessed it — “rare.”
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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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