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A frequency of more than twice a month that someone is shoved onto the subway tracks is not *rare*. Put it this way, in 2020 there were 38 mass shootings in NYC.
It has happened in Chicago. In one recent notorious case, the pusher was a college professor. The fellow who hit the tracks survived and climbed out on his own.
A Northwestern University neuroscience graduate was sentenced to three years in prison for pushing another man off a Chicago subway platform and onto train tracks... Estep was accused of approaching 46-year-old Ben Benedict from behind on a downtown subway station platform on Aug. 1, 2017. Prosecutors say Estep pushed Benedict onto the tracks with both hands, knocking him close to the electrified third rail.
Epidemic: "a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time."
And the numbers I am seeing are over 3.5 millions riders a day use the subway which I find to be an astounding number. But my point was considering the high numbers it is still a very rare crime. A crime nonetheless but not at a level you are trying to claim. That said. The offenders need someone to stop them. How about those carrying concealed legally in NYC. Oh wait. It's NYC.
Former law enforcement here. I can find despicable crimes in every state and every large city in the US with barely looking at Google. How about scenes I have been to. A stabbing and beheading of a rape victim. A quadruple homicide of 4 young ladies in a home that is still unsolved to this day after many years. I could go on and on. Yes, this case is tragic and NYC needs to do something but with 3.5 millions riders what exactly would you propose? Hire hundreds of thousands more police officers? Laughable in the society we see today and even this is no guarantee to be a fix.
i am sure you would feel different if you lost a loved one in a similar manner
Oh knock it off and quit with trying to make me feel guilty for my response. It won't work. Nowhere have I made excuses for the offenders in these cases.
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