Duffy’s giving the game away - It’s not about the numbers for crime in the subway, it’s about the perception of crime, a perception that has been fueled by right-wing propaganda outlets like the Post and Fox News to convince their viewers and readers that our pleasant city is actually a hellhole.
A great response would be why are you so emotional? I just read you the facts? Your lies are also so emotional. Do you need a moment to collect yourself while I reclaim my time.
They really believe every major blue city is like Escape from New York. Im not even sure they know they are lying anymore.
Even my fave fascist-lite Bodycam YouTube channels have updated their priors on this: bsky.app/profile/jare...
It's like the old Republican saying goes, feelings are always more important than facts
These people also dont ride the subway and probably werent going to visit the cities in question.
Wasn’t the person who was lit on fire in like June of 2020?
Can confirm Duffy’s stats. I rode the subway three times yesterday and was murdered twice.
Four million people ride the subway every day, and they want you to believe that rare events are frequent because it furthers their goal of insisting that liberals can’t govern
To some extent they're just talking past each other. Grand larceny is by far the most common major crime on the subway and there's much less of it than before the pandemic, but assaults are in fact up about 60% — 127% if you adjust for ridership — since 2019.
* MTA says 10 people were murdered in the subways in 2024. * MTA says 1,194,866,357 passenger trips were completed in 2024 This is a fatality risk of less than 1 in 100 million. Would you like to know what your chances of being killed in a traffic accident are?
Truth-monger is far a less lucrative career than Fear-monger.