Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on today's show is Hannah Myers. She's the director of policing and public safety at the Manhattan Institute.

Hannah formerly worked for the NYPD as an intelligence analyst and team leader.

She's here to discuss crime in the city from the attack on the subways perpetrated last week

to the broader trends and perceptions of disorder.

Hannah, thanks very much for joining us on 10 blocks.

Thank you for having me.

Delighted.

Last week, as everybody knows, a man named Frank James launched an attack against strap hangers in a subway car and platform

in Brooklyn.

He was caught about 30 hours later following a lot of speculation about his motives and the

alleged shortcomings of the investigation, including apparently malfunctioning security

cameras. Now, you know, that the dust has settled, I wonder if you could explain where things are

and what happened from the time James entered the subway system to the time he was caught 30 hours later.

Sure.

You know, coming from a counterterrorism background, as I do,

and a counter-radicalization background,

he is what you might call an angry loser.

Someone who he's 62 now had decades of combative relationships

with family and coworkers and neighbors, something that kept him

just bouncing around from job to job and house to house.

And then he moved online and for the last like two decades had a lot of presence on social

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