re: NYC has fallen.

So you are suggesting that 1,120 is the total number and there weren't any that went unreported?

Your statement also assumes that the "bad thing" would happen on the millionth ride and not anytime before then. I highly doubt this woman was about to hit 7 figures.

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So you are suggesting that 1,120 is the total number and there weren't any that went unreported?

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Im suggesting we look up stats to the best of our ability instead of using your emotional argument or another posters emotional argument

But you won’t accept anything and will just say they are making it up so it’s impossible to form any actual logical opinion with you

It’s the same with people that say the world is flat. Anything you show them is “oh and you think they don’t have a reason to lie????”

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So, statistically, it takes 1 million rides to experience a violent encounter.

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Fine...let's use stats. From the very page/report you grabbed yours from

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For the sake of illustration, let’s start with the 2023 rate of one reported violent incident for every 280,000 rides. Then imagine that you take the subway about 10 times a week, resulting in 500 rides per year. Also assume that you can see 20 riders whenever you take the train – if anything, a conservative assumption. Finally, let’s say you keep in regular contact with about 30 people who live in New York and have the same subway ridership habits.

We’ll save you from having to dig out your probability textbook by calculating some of the relevant risks for you. You still have a low probability — about 1-in-500 — of being a victim of a reported violent crime yourself, even over the course of an entire year. But probabilities have a surprising way of accumulating. You have a 1-in-30 chance of seeing a violent crime unfolding on the subway over the course of the year. And across your community of 30 people, there’s about a two-thirds chance that someone you know will have seen or experienced a violent crime unfolding on the train. New Yorkers who live in neighborhoods with higher crime, who take the subway during off-peak hours or who have longer commutes, likely face higher risks than this citywide average.

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You are literally using “a narrative” argument from their article

For American cities NYC does not have a bad violent crime rate

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For American cities NYC does not have a bad violent crime rate

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This is true.

Its all tied to education folks. Its never been about color.

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You are literally using “a narrative” argument from their article

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The bolded part is an application of the statistics. But because you don't like it you will try and dismiss it.

That city needs the kind of help only mercenaries can provide.

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Houston is significantly more violent than NYC, but you’re not going to be pushed onto train racks, get burned to death in a train car, and probably a lot less likely to get attacked walking down the street

It’s nuanced and statistics don’t always tell the entire story

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I've taken to calling it "felt crime." Sure, it's inexact, but not to be dismissed.

A random, low-risk lifestyle person getting burned alive on the subway in a not bad area is the epitome of that. Or a dad of 3 getting mugged and shot in a decent part of a city at 3PM, etc.

Crime may be at a 20 year low but if it's bleeding into areas where people who don't engage in risky lifestyles are being impacted, it's not entirely irrational for people to take note and be apprehensive (even if statistically your chances of being victimized remain near zero).

Done by an illegal Trump kicked out but Biden allowed back in.

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