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Commentary By Nicole Gelinas

Want a Weapons-Free Subway? Enforce Farebeating

Public Safety Policing, Crime Control

Another weekend, another spate of subway stabbings, almost unheard-of in the quarter-century before 2020.

To commit a stabbing or a shooting in the subway system, you need a knife or a gun. We know how to keep weapons and the people who use them out of transit — because we’re already doing it, and it’s working. It’s just that the scale of the problem has grown so much.

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Early Saturday, an assailant stabbed a 23-year-old man in the stomach and leg at a Times Square station. Early Friday, a different assailant stabbed a city fire inspector at a station in Harlem.

These latest attacks are just more reminders that serious subway crime, as of last week, is 42% above last year’s already-elevated levels.

Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post

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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.

This piece originally appeared in New York Post