Hasnain says:

So glad this is being written about - the more I read about the subway shooting the more I think it’s the perfect argument for defunding the police. The NYPD gets 10 billion a year (if it was a military, it would be the 24th largest in the world) and has 3500 cops on subways. Yet:

- the cops at the station failed to stop the shooter or identify him
- They claimed they have 10k cameras all over the city in stations and the three on the station in question were the only ones broken that day
- A cop failed to follow protocol, letting the shooter get away
- radios weren’t working so a cop asked people to call 911 instead
- they only identified the shooter because he dropped his credit card and keys at the scene
- the shooter called in his location and cops failed to show up until a security camera installer found him and called him in (go Zach!)
- this location was just a block away from where the counter terrorism unit was harassing homeless people

I could go on and will edit in a few more things, but… sigh.

“And New Yorkers see this daily. We see police playing on their phones while they lounge around subway stations; we see them unmasked in our stores; and we see them parked in our bike lanes, always ignoring our requests to change their behavior. So when the Mayor says he plans to double the number of police officers in the subway, New Yorkers are right to be skeptical. We know too well how they don’t keep us safe, from mass shootings or otherwise. And we know that real answers like housing, mental health provisions, and education might actually help us build a safer, less violent world.”

Posted on 2022-04-14T20:03:00+0000