I saw a tall man on L train stomping aggressively through the car and yelling bloody murder that he is gonna "stab the next mf I see", while attempting to swing punches at random people. The whole train ended up getting evacuated, and the train line got delayed. That was last winter. Between then and now, I saw people threatening others on the subway multiple times.

The most recent incident was a few weeks ago on Q train, where a seated man was screaming at the woman across from him (who was trying to do her best to ignore him), how he was gonna kill her and "the rest of her people" (whatever that means).

But please tell me how stuff like this never happens.

And I am not even a subway hater overall, I take it daily, and it is my preferred method of transportation. And no, I am not taking subway into deep and shady parts of bronx or brooklyn, as heavy majority of my rides are contained between Dekalb/Jay St Metrotech (aka dt brooklyn) and midtown.

It just sounds like crazy talk to me, when someone claims that the safety cams in subway cars are not, at least, somewhat helpful. At least newer A/C train cars have those cams now, and, I hope, it will lead to prosecution of serial subway harassers.

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This is false. Urban areas have the highest rate of crime compared to rural and suburban. For example look at the years 2020 and 2021 from this report:[0]

Table 8

Rate of victimization, by type of crime and location of residence, 2020 and 2021

Location of residence

Total violent crime Violent crime excluding simple assault Total property crime

2020 2021* 2020 2021* 2020 2021*

Urban 19.0 † 24.5 7.7 9.7 158.9 157.5

Suburban 16.8 16.5 5.6 5.2 90.5 86.8

Rural 13.4 11.1 4.5 4.4 65.6 57.7

You can see clearly that urban has the highest rate of crime, and this has been true for decades.[1]

Also, many crimes are not recorded at all in NYC, which is why many stores have locked down all their items with a key that requires permission from a staff member to access. I haven't seen this in the small towms I've been to.

[0] https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv21.pdf

[1] https://ovc.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh226/files/ncvrw2018/...

There’s possibly a fantasy mindset at play where people need a certain identity to be true. As we’ve witnessed on a national scale, humans have great capacity for fantastical thinking to support what a friend of mine calls their “binkie narrative.”

His small town? Tallinn is comparatively tiny to NYC admittedly but Dubai is a fairly large and urban city. I think that it doesn’t quite fit the appellation.

Can't wait for all the pharmacies in your neighborhood to close because you think punishing deodorant thieves is wrong.

They have laws against those people.

When meth heads get arrested, there isn't an army of losers protesting the sheriff the next day claiming it's cruel and unusual punishment and demanding the city give them a free house for them to do meth in.

Enjoy your Alcatraz pharmacies while they're still open.

NYC is safer than many cities for sure.

But there are approximately zero meth heads shitting in the streets in small towns in the US.

I have never once seen a person shitting in the streets in a small town. I saw it within 24 hours of visiting Portland. I’ve never seen that in NYC either to be clear.

Yes, crime in small towns is bad too. Do we agree?