Hello and welcome back to the City Journal podcast.

My name is Rafael Menguil, Senior Fellow with the Manhattan Institute, contributing

editor of City Journal.

I am joined by a wonderful group of brilliant colleagues. We've got Tau Fort

Gang, All Things, Legal Policy at MI. We've got Carolyn Gorman covering mental health and much else

here at the Manhattan Institute. And we've got Rania Mukherjee, who covers higher ed and race

and probably a lot of other things too. So welcome to the show, everybody. Good to see you all.

I want to kind of get started with a sort of New York, core New York story. We haven't done something

core New York in a while on the show, I think. And what's more New York than wild, you know,

splashy, tabloidy crime stories?

And we've got a couple of them from this week that I thought are worth talking about,

especially in the context of mayoral election, where public safety is going to kind of loon large.

But a wild story out of the subway system here in New York,

he had a 20-year-old kid allegedly stab a sleeping passenger

just randomly at least three times in the head. Turns out that the alleged assailant was

recently released without bail on his own recognizance just a few days before the incident after

allegedly being arrested for slashing his own

mom. Kind of crazy, the sort of case where I think, you know, the Normie asked, well, you know,

why is this person out on the street? Of course, the answer is because that's what New York City

and New York State policy has demanded should happen. But that case can be coupled with another really kind of splashing one that caught my eye yesterday.

It was a 76-year-old repeat offender is alleged to have shot a cab driver over a dispute about a $40 fare.

The 76-year-old,uagenarian is also out on pretrial release

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