On Feb. 18, Mayor Eric Adams announced a Subway Safety Plan that, he said, would mean “no more smoking, no more doing drugs, no more sleeping, no more barbecues on the subway system, and no more just doing whatever you want.” But the plan is not a crime-fighting plan; it is a homeless-control plan that expands on last month’s promise by the mayor and Gov. Hochul that a record number of cops would be “omnipresent” underground.
The day after the plan’s announcement, four stabbings rocked the transit system. An attack on a homeless man showed that the subway can be as unsafe for the homeless themselves as for riders who view them with fear. On Saturday at 3 a.m., three men demanded money from the 46-year-old victim at the Jamaica-Van Wyck station in Kew Gardens. When he resisted, he was stabbed in the buttocks and thighs before the assailants fled.
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Dorothy Moses Schulz is an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute’s Policing and Public Safety Initiative, emerita professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and a retired MTA-Metro North Railroad Police captain who has served as a safety and security consultant to transit agencies across the country. Adapted from City Journal.
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