Random attacks on minor celebs are just tip of a grim New York iceberg

Monday’s random assault on Z100’s Elvis Duran follows two different out-of-the-blue assaults in latest days that caught the general public eye solely as a result of the sufferer has a modest media profile.

That’s a transparent signal that such assaults are actually occurring on a regular basis, however don’t make the information or any police report.

Why trouble making a stink if there’s no hope cops can do something about it?

Until you may have cause to assume your story can penetrate, as with Duran, PBS journo Jane Ferguson and former state Senate candidate Maria Danzilo. 

Duran was the sufferer of a there-and-gone assailant who wielded a “sharp object.” 

Ferguson was slugged by a rando on the subway late final month.

Danzilo, too, says she was hit by a stranger whereas speaking on the telephone in Central Park.

None of them is so recognizable that the assault was private: These have been actually random assaults.

Think about what number of comparable assaults should go with none media consideration.

For these three incidents to comply with one another in such fast succession, New York should host a major inhabitants of weirdos who frequently snap at random strangers.

We’re fortunate hurt doesn’t end result extra typically, nevertheless it’s the identical issue that results in subway-shovings and different horrors.

This week noticed not one however two random punch assaults on the subway, directed not in opposition to mini-celebs however common Joes (one an off-duty cop).

And simply final week, John Sarquiz — who’s doubtless not extensively identified past his Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, neighborhood — was struck unconscious and kicked within the head earlier than being robbed in a seemingly random assault.

Tragically, he died Monday of his accidents.

It’s one other signal that the extreme psychological sickness rampant on the town’s streets poses a continued public-safety risk.

Mayor Eric Adams’ drive to deliver the severely troubled in for involuntary therapy is one respectable response, as is Gov. Kathy Hochul’s transfer to construct out psychiatric-bed capability. 

However all of the “advocates” who’ve spent a long time combating for the rights of harmful individuals to roam the streets have lots to reply for.

Till New York will get severe about treating these individuals, whether or not they prefer it or not, the threats of random violence is in every single place.