The Difficulty: Requires higher enforcement towards fare-beating amid a spike in crimes within the subway.
Bravo in your Sunday editorial, “Cease the Farebeaters” (Oct. 30).
It’s arduous to think about how such a common sense place can one way or the other be debated. There will be no legitimate purpose to tolerate fare-beaters.
MTA Chairman Janno Lieber must get his act collectively and put the strain on Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg to desert the ill-conceived coverage of letting fare-beaters slide.
Turnstile leaping is theft of companies. The legislation already on the books is greater than sufficient to offer a powerful deterrent, offered it’s enforced.
Rampant turnstile bounceing happens as a result of abusers undergo no penalties. And as soon as within the subways, the farebeaters are those liable for the crime towards the law-abiding.
Peter Janoff
Stamford, Conn.
Nicole Gelinas hit the nail on the top (“Security Specific,” PostOpinion, Oct. 31). Implement subway guidelines, and crime will go down. Arrest the farebeaters.
The shameless leftist pols will criticize police for zero-tolerance enforcement, however that’s the one technique to cut back crime.
Not everybody will get to have police drive them round in luxurious SUVs or declare the subways are secure whereas strolling round with an armed escort, like New York’s mayor.
Mike Lapinga
Brooklyn
I not too long ago retired from NYC Transit after a 37-year profession of working within the subways.
I can truthfully say that within the final three years, crime has been up dramatically. The subways have turn into a lawless wasteland by which 1000’s should journey every day, risking their lives to help their households.
Most crimes will not be reported to NYPD. I’ve seen that first-hand, so the stats are worse than what we’re proven.
I name on Gov. Hochul to assign state troopers to the subways. Now we have troopers on the highways and streets within the metropolis giving out visitors violations. Let’s put them the place they’re wanted most: defending harmless subway riders.
Andrew Danylchuk
Brooklyn
What New Yorkers need is peace of thoughts. The day by day stress of worrying about your loved ones turning into victims of violent crime places individuals in a really darkish place.
The profession criminals who maintain this metropolis hostage run free. New York criminals will not be afraid of uniformed cops due to our Metropolis Council, and the truth that uniformed officers often reply to previous crimes and aided instances.
What these criminals do worry are plainclothes officers. When these in cost come to their senses and produce again anti-crime models, solely then will peace of thoughts return.
Louie Scarcella
Coney Island
The Difficulty: Nets level guard Kyrie Irving’s retweet of a hyperlink to an anti-Semitic film.
As a proud Jew, I’m so sick of the anti-Semitism that’s pervasive and accepted (“B’klyn turns to ADL amid Irving uproar,” Nov. 2).
Ye, Kyrie Irving and others play quick and unfastened. Their ignorance of our historical past, accomplishments and our unwavering help of the civil-rights motion makes their feedback all of the extra hurtful.
This horrible local weather, fueled by an ignorant press and hyper-political protection, doesn’t assist.
Lee Fleischman
Stamford, Conn.
Can all of us agree that even when Kyrie Irving shouldn’t be anti-Semitic (and I’m not giving him a move on that), he’s, to say the least, anti-sensitive?
That’s, he’s extraordinarily insensitive to Jews, to individuals clever sufficient to know that the Earth shouldn’t be flat and to individuals who get vaccinated towards COVID.
Richard Siegelman
Plainview
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