How will you take care of your personal safety ? Harassment/Assaults/Muggings/Slashings are becoming rather common in the subway there right ? There appear to be several incidents reported weekly - and these are only the ones that get views.
When you say "common," can you be more specific? I believe the actual rate, in the form of trips with an incident over trips without an incident, would be described as extremely uncommon. Perhaps there's been an uptick, and perhaps it's even more common in NY than other large cities, but probably less common than being a victim of similarly bad circumstances (plus collision risk) inside a car.
There are severe crimes reported weekly this year - you can simply just check the news for that along with regular assaults and hundreds of harassment cases. I am not sure I would quantify the rate as "extremely uncommon".
This got me double checking myself, but it does seem that a typical "common versus rare" threshold is a rate of 5%, though other values like 1% and 10% are sometimes used. Based on this, I'll concede that it might be common for an incident to make the daily news (if there's one a week, so 1/7 chance) but I stand by my claim that trips with such incidents are extremely uncommon relative to all trips.
There's 8 million+ people in NYC. So even if there are 8 severe crimes in a period of time that is still a one in a million chance. Seems extremely uncommon to me. Though I do agree, the uptick in crime is not great.
The last few years have shown that even if something is extremely uncommon you've still got to move heaven and earth to stop it happening. Costs be damned.
Metal detectors at every station entrance , mental health screening prior to boarding perhaps?
While the level of crime is appalling, it needs to be addressed, not ignored and isolating by putting yourself into a little metal box.
This is actually the perfect example of car-brain mentality, you can totally ignore huge social issues, ugly and dirty streets, etc. because you are insulated from them and are just driving past. If you had to walk through that area, that would not work.
If wealthy and influential people could not isolate themselves from the problem, maybe they would actually fix the problem
Sure, lets be the guinea pig and sacrifice one's life for the sake of some hypothetical improvement that will happen by one's death. Since other folks have died on the NY subway and nothing has changed, I doubt one's sacrifice will do anything.
Maybe the leadership of the city should daily take the NY subway - without their personal security. And then write a bond of guarantee for the public.
Far more people are injured or die on the highway outside my office in Texas than in the subways of NY, and there's fewer people riding on the highway.
Actually a bong guarantee is a good idea, if the city had to pay damages every time someone in a victim of crime a subway, things might be solved quickly.
You are describing tragedy of individual action. Similar story to protesting in Russia. Or using a bicycle instead of a car. Or perhaps climate change, and a few others
