Correct. I take the subway. I also know that it is immoral not to pay attention to murders that we know, from recent past history, are preventable. These are lives needlessly lost.

The subways remain far more dangerous than they were for a generation until 2020. Hochul is just betting you won’t care. (She’s also betting that Blakeman is just a horribly unserious candidate, which is true!) nypost.com/2026/10/25/opinio…

As noted a couple of weeks ago, I have sort of given up on politics, and this is a big part of the reason why. It is pointless to focus on the cravenness, etc., of individual politicians. It would be nice to see true leadership, but it's just rare. The issue here for day-to-day priorities is the makeup of the voters, and the information they get. Without better voters and better information -- and probably primary reform -- the politicians are the politicians. No amount of castigating them is going to make them different. They are just the product (yes, Mamdani, too!) and you don't sit around blaming the product. You blame the producer.