Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast.

This is Brian Anderson.

I'm the editor of City Journal.

And joining me on today's show is Nicole Jelineas, who has been oncks podcast. This is Brian Anderson. I'm the editor of City Journal. And joining me on today's

show is Nicole Jelineas, who has been on this podcast many times. She's a senior fellow at the Manhattan

Institute, a long time contributing editor at City Journal, and is now a contributing opinion

editor at the New York Times. She writes about urban economic issues, transportation, finance.

Her recent book, I should say, Movement, New York's Long War to Take Back its Streets from the Car,

just won the 2,025 Gotham Book Prize. Today, though, we're going to be discussing far grimmer

topic, the deadly shooting on July 28th at

345 Park Avenue in New York City. Nicole just wrote about this for City Journal, a piece

called A Threatened City. Nicole, thanks very much for joining us. Good morning, Brian. Thank you for

having me back on. This recent story that you wrote on the attack described a broader trend of random acts of

violence that have targeted New York City.

One thinks of the Luishi Mangione shooting late last year and other recent incidents.

As you point out, the shooter in this case, Shane

Tamura, who was 27, did not have any connection to New York City. He had no local arrest record,

and he drove all away from Nevada where he had a history of mental health issues. Now, New York

City has several methods of preventing violence, such as targeting

radical terrorist organizations, catching low-level offenders before they escalate to larger crimes,

all of these approaches which have helped keep New York City relatively safe. None of them

would seem applicable here. So, you know, the first question I have is, are some random acts of

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