The mayor of New York “doesn’t feel safe” on the subway, and he admits that New Yorkers don’t feel safe either, he said today at a press conference, three days after a woman was killed by a homeless man who pushed her onto the tracks at the moment a car entered the platform.
“Since January 1, when I took the train, I saw the tramps, the shouts, the screams early in the morning”, said the mayor, describing the large number of homeless people who walk through the stations and subway cars, sometimes in an aggressive attitude.
“We know that we have a pending task , we are going to lower (the rate of) crime and we are going to make New Yorkers feel safe in our subway system, because now they do not feel, I do not feel (safe) when I take the subway, “acknowledged Mayor Eric Adams .
The event that has shocked the city took place last Saturday morning: a 40-year-old homeless man apparently randomly chose his victim, a 40-year-old woman who was alone on the platform from the downtown Times Square station, and pushed her onto the track just as the train entered the station at high speed, causing her instant death.
The man got on another car and he later turned himself in to the police after confessing his crime; Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he has spent twenty years of his life with frequent visits to psychiatric hospitals.
Insecurity was one of the reasons that Adams repeated most in his election campaign for mayor, always emphasizing his past as a policeman and promising to put an end to crime.
The subway network, one of the most extensive in the world , is pointed out with the finger as very insecure, and in fact in the days prior to the attack, the mayor had announced the deployment of additional police officers in the busiest stations.
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