Serial subway predators who strike underground could be banned from trains and buses under a plan being discussed by Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
“We are looking actively, and have discussions begun with the MTA, and it may ultimately require potentially some legislation up in Albany, that some of these career recidivist criminals who use the subways to prey on victims, that we find some way of excluding them from the subway,” Bratton said on The John Gambling Show on AM970 The Answer,
The move comes in the wake of an increased number of subway slashings. But there’s also been an increase in underground crime generally.
Crime complaints in the subway jumped to 189 incidents from the beginning of the year through Jan. 24 compared to 147 during the same time last year, an increase of 29 percent, according to NYPD statistics.
There were six subway slashings in January, a 100 percent increase from last year when there were only three, Bratton said.
While police treat the assaults as a “high priority,” Bratton also downplayed the slashings, saying that the six this month were unrelated and are getting more attention because the police and media are focusing on them.
Currently, some people convicted of crimes on MTA subways and buses can be banned from using the system as part of their parole, Bratton said. Whether it would violate anyone’s rights to expand that further is up in the air.
“As to the legalities of it, well that’s some of what we’ll seek to explore with the MTA and potentially the legislature as we go forward,” Bratton said.
The idea seemed to get a boost of support from Mayor Bill de Blasio.
“Mayor de Blasio is always interested in using additional tools to protect New Yorkers against transit crime,” said spokeswoman Monica Klein.
@#3
There was no assertion but an offhand joke/remark, which was more true than not. You are pedantic to the point of stupidity.
I’ll translate it for you. This measure would disproportionately affect black people, like incarceration (do you dispute that?) and the SJW will have conniptions (do you dispute that?)
You don’t like the form of his expression because it’s RACIST!!!; we have our own religion and being racist (which I’ve never seen defined, btw ) isn’t one of our big 10…
You assert only white people will be left as though we’re incapable of crime, yet deductively you believe every person of color is a criminal, then act as though you’re the one victimized if someone points out your racism.
Impossible.
Public property cannot bar a citizen.
Criminals can be lawfully prosecuted, arrested, tried, locked up.
Your either a convict or your not.
Trump thought he owned all the Muslims so he had the landlords right to fire and hire tenants at will. But when he learns he’s not the only owned, brain exceeds limits. Sorry, can’t.
BS”D
great idea until the realize only white people left on the buses and trains and then the racist accusations come forth