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

Journal. Joining me on the show today is

Raphael Manguel. He's the Nick O'Neill Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He's a valued

contributing editor at City Journal, and he's a member of the Council on Criminal Justice. He published

his first book, Criminal Injustice in 2022, 2022, I should say, and he writes regularly for us on crime, public order, criminal justice reform, and other related issues.

Today, we're going to discuss the deteriorating or seemingly deteriorating safety situation in New York City's subways, which have seen some

horrible violent crimes recently. Ralph, always great to talk with you, and thanks for joining us.

Thanks so much for having me back. Always great to be on. So, in a way, we just start by having

you recap, especially for people who are listening who are not in the New York area, might not

have been following this, some of these deadly incidents that have taken place recently in the

subway system. Yeah, well, you had a really gruesome emulation at the Coney Island Avenue

stop just toward the end of last year, which really grabbed a lot of headlines.

There have been fatal stabbings, there have been non-fatal stabbings, including on the Metro North, actually, just in the first couple of days of this year.

There was a near-fatal subway shoving, but over the last several years, there have been a lot

of really terrible instances of deadly force being used.

Within the subway system, you had the

Frank James, mass shooting, of course. You had the shooting murder of a Wall Street executive.

You had the deadly subway shoving of the Michelle Go. You know, there really are kind of almost

too many to count. And, you know, that doesn't actually include other fatal encounters that

were ultimately ruled self-defense, right?

You had the Daniel Penny case with Jordan Neely, where he placed Neely into a chokehold and Neely later died.

You had a fatal stabbing that was ruled self-defense on a Brooklyn subway earlier that same year committed by somebody named Jordan Williams, who was briefly in custody,

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