{"id":1225960,"date":"2022-01-19T20:23:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T01:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1225960"},"modified":"2022-01-19T20:23:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T01:23:47","slug":"nyc-mayor-says-he-doesnt-feel-safe-on-subway-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-says-he-doesnt-feel-safe-on-subway-system\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Says He Doesn\u2019t Feel Safe On Subway System"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyc-mayor-says-he-doesnt-feel-safe-on-subway-system%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1225960&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said that not even he has felt safe riding the city\u2019s subway system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mayor Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/590365-new-york-mayor-says-he-doesnt-feel-safe-on-subways\">told<\/a> the press about the time he took the train on January 1, shortly after he became mayor, and dialed 911 to tell officials about an altercation close to a subway station. He also saw a passenger shouting, and another individual asleep on one of the trains, as <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/nyc-mayor-feel-safe-subway-system-82338874\">reported<\/a> by ABC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cOn day one, I took the subway system, I felt unsafe. I saw homeless everywhere. People were yelling on the trains. There was a feeling of disorder. So as we deal with the crime problem, we also have to deal with the fact people feel unsafe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The tone is a shift from earlier in the week when Adams stated that the subway system is primarily not dangerous after a woman was killed when a person pushed her in front of a subway train this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/serious-crimes-up-in-nyc-report-finds-as-new-mayor-dismisses-concerns\">reported<\/a> on Tuesday, \u201cThe New York Post&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/17\/nypd-data-shows-serious-crimes-up-despite-adams-claims\/\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that Adams had dismissed concerns over increasing crime on the subway, claiming the concerns were merely a \u2018perception of fear.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cNew Yorkers are safe on the subway system,\u201d Adams said on Sunday. \u201cWhat we must do is remove the perception of fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhen you have an incident like this, the perception is what we\u2019re fighting against. This is a safe system,\u201d Adams also said at a press conference shortly after the attack took place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On Tuesday, Adams told the press, \u201cWe\u2019re going to drive down crime and we\u2019re going to make sure New Yorkers feel safe in our subway system, and they don\u2019t feel that way now. I don\u2019t feel that way when I take the train every day or when I\u2019m moving throughout our transportation system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Janno Lieber is the acting chair and CEO of Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates the subway. Lieber said Adams\u2019 discussion of not feeling safe was the mayor \u201cshowing that he gets it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe mayor is showing he gets it and he is sensitive to the way New Yorkers are feeling,\u201d Lieber said. \u201cPeople don\u2019t feel based on statistics. They feel based on their personal experience and what they\u2019re hearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The number of people taking the subway is low, causing problems for the economy of the city. While ABC noted that police data shows \u201cmajor felonies in the subways have dropped over the last two years,\u201d the number of riders has decreased as well, making the statistics hard to measure against prior data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">ABC reported, \u201cDaily rides over the last two weeks have hovered around 2.1 million, about 44% of the same time pre-pandemic, according to data from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which falls under state control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/serious-crimes-up-in-nyc-report-finds-as-new-mayor-dismisses-concerns\">reported<\/a> that New York Police Department (NYPD) statistics show that serious crimes have increased.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMajor Big Apple crimes jumped by more than a third in the first two weeks of this year compared to the same period in 2021 \u2014 with transit crimes alone soaring 65.5 percent,\u201d the Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/17\/nypd-data-shows-serious-crimes-up-despite-adams-claims\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cWhile the figures remain a small sample size, the upward trend provides an early challenge for Adams as he tries to reassure jittery straphangers that cops have everything in hand underground after several terrifying recent rail attacks, particularly Saturday\u2019s horrific random fatal subway push in Times Square.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe report said there were 96 incidents in the transit system compared to 58 last year, led by an increase in robberies and grand larcenies, but the overall number was lower than it was before the pandemic in 2019,\u201d The Daily Wire added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Police data also showed that serious crime in the city has gone up by 35.2% as of Sunday when contrasted to the same time period in 2021, per the Post. Murders and burglaries are the only major crimes that haven\u2019t gone up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nypd-data-shows-explosion-of-hate-crimes-in-new-york-city-over-50-target-jews-and-asians\">reported<\/a> that hate crimes in the city have also increased by a staggering 100% compared with last year. The majority of the targeted groups are Asian or Jewish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said that not even he has felt safe riding the city\u2019s subway system. Mayor Adams told the press about the time he took the train on January 1, shortly after he became mayor, and dialed 911 to tell officials about an altercation close to a subway &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1225960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}