In New York, USA, at 3 a.m. on March 20, the subway in New York has lost its daytime noise. The two police officers on duty did not expect that someone suddenly broke through the gate illegally - "fare evasion" has become a tradition for New Yorkers, but the fare evader on duty in the early morning did not expect that at this point, there were still police officers on duty at the No. 6 subway station (the intersection of East 116th Street and Lexington Avenue).
Fare evaders quickly entered the waiting platform because, based on past experience, the police would not search each other as long as they blended into the crowd.
But it's clear that the 57-year-old, Emmanuel Solcio, has overlooked a problem. At 3 a.m., there were police on duty at the subway station, but there were no people coming and going during the day.
Solcio was on the waiting platform, and in the face of the approaching police, he undoubtedly chose the latter between "arresting and releasing immediately" and "fighting back with all his might, and going to jail for a felony".
I saw him take out a mace from his body, and then swing it towards the police!
Because New York City is a deep blue city, and after several years of "police refund campaigns", New York police power has been highly restricted.
So instead of pulling out their pistols and emptying their magazines, the two policemen worked together to subdue the thug after being attacked by Solsio - of course, if Solcio pulled out his pistol, he would have been killed on the spot.
And this subway assault on the police is just the "everyday" of the New York subway today, and even the least threatening kind - because it was only on March 14 that a shooting case triggered by a brawl occurred in the New York subway.
According to statistics, today's New York subway has become a de facto "crime cave". In 2023, the New York subway system recorded a total of 2,285 felony crimes, of which 570 were assaults that resulted in serious (fatal) injuries.
In fact, 2023 is already the year with the fewest crimes in the New York subway in the four years since the pandemic in 2020, thanks to the vigorous promotion of law and order management by New York Mayor Adams after taking office, such as the recent arrival of police and the New York National Guard in the "crime hotspot stations" of the New York subway and random sampling of passenger packages. and cleaning up the homeless in subway stations.
In the past four years, the most famous subway case is that in 2022, Gao Huimin, a gold-collar executive on Wall Street, was tragically "randomly attacked" by a homeless man in the subway when he was doing a "transit subway commute" in New York City, and was pushed and fell into the tracks, and was tragically run over by the subway to death - New York is congested by traffic during rush hour, so even rich people will choose the subway to commute in New York City as long as they need to clock in to work.
After the Gao Huimin case, the New York subway security crisis has completely become a hot topic in the United States, and the direct consequence of this is that the subway ridership has dropped from the previous average of 5.5 million daily passengers to the current daily average of 4 million passengers.
However, the law and order corruption in New York is not only that the subway has become a "crime cave", but also that with the proliferation of "progressive policies" in New York, the "arrest and release" brought about by the "bail reform" has made more and more African Americans "go rich", and the influx of nearly 200,000 illegal immigrants into New York has exacerbated the deterioration of law and order.
Before 2022, the "bail law reform" in the United States mainly led to "street burglars" flocking to luxury stores for "zero-dollar purchases", with the influx of 200,000 illegal immigrants and the targeted "zero-dollar purchase prevention measures" of large enterprises, a large number of criminal gangs can only turn to the middle class that lacks security.
"I think everybody in New York, has noticed that the city has changed a little bit in terms of safety and street cleanup over the last year or so. ”
"I'm a single woman and New York is starting to get less secure, which affects my whole life. Samantha Pillsbury, 31, said in an interview with the media. Now, she has embarked on a journey to investigate her next place to settle after leaving New York.
Piercebury, although he felt unsafe on the streets of New York, was not immediately threatened because of his safe location on the edge of the Upper East Side. But not every middle-class person can afford rent on the Upper East Side, even for apartments on the fringes.
Stephanie Heintz, who worked in the fashion industry in New York, moved to New York for the first time 14 years ago with a dream.
At that time, the mayor of New York City was still a Republican Bloomberg, and under his rule, New York was in the "golden years of twenty years".
Inheriting the political style of Giuliani, the previous Republican, this gentleman not only kept New York safe and quiet, but also sprung up with various entrepreneurial opportunities and thriving business.
The world's stereotype of New York's "prosperity" today is derived from the "prosperity governance" of New York (1994-2013) under the two and four ten-term governors of "Giuliani Bloomberg."
It was a wonderful era that people yearn for.
Of course, all this has become yesterday's old dream with the inauguration of de Blasio and the rise of the radical wing of the Democratic Party.
In today's New York, zero-dollar purchases are rampant, street stalls are flooded, and Roosevelt Avenue in Queens has become a famous "East Coast Erotic Mecca" in the United States.
"I really believe in all the Democrat clichés that if you can succeed in New York, you can succeed anywhere. I still believe that, and I believe it's still a city that never sleeps. “
"But long gone are the days when I and other single women went out on the streets late at night and felt safe. But until 2020, people with power and retinue, or in groups, could still enjoy the city that never sleeps—and that was what little freedom I had left in my nights in New York. ”
"But even this freedom has completely disappeared after 2020. ”
"New York has now become a place where I carry pepper spray (anti-wolf spray). I had a few random attacks on the street and I became nervous. Now I'm confined to this tiny apartment (because of security issues) and it's hard for me to even walk my dog. Heinz, 37, said. Although she was living in Midtown Manhattan at the time, the Ritz-Carlton was just a block away.
But she could still see homeless people defecating everywhere at home every day, or injecting drugs in the open. It scared her, even though she moved from a modest apartment to her last New York address, which was small and more expensive, but had a doorman, for safety.
In October last year, Heinz resigned and moved to Florida.
"On the day I quit my job, I was spat on by a stranger as soon as I left the house. Heinz shook his head, unable to comprehend such madness, and said.
According to statistics, a total of 78,000 people in New York City will choose to move out in 2023. Across New York State, more than 880,000 people have left in the past four years.
Behind the escape from New York, it is the status quo of the Democrats' "complete rule" of New York City and City, which has shocked countless Americans and made them shocked and unbelievable.
A longtime resident New Yorker wrote, "I'm a longtime New Yorker. It used to be the 'city that never sleeps'. But that's the end of it. The current governor, the city council, the mayor, all did everything to ruin everything here. By 10 p.m., the city was dead. I used to love nightclubs, late-night restaurants, and talking passionately with all the people who liked late nights. Nowadays the hob is turning. Everything is gone. ”
New York's current mayor, Adams, came to power with the promise of "policing," and he has done many practical things, such as police sinking into subway stations to expel homeless people from the subway system.
A crackdown on illegal sex trafficking has also been launched, and the National Guard has been involved in policing in collaboration with the state government. It has even responded to Chinatown's request to relocate some homeless shelters (homeless shelters, but the game is still ongoing, and it is difficult to say whether they will succeed or fail).
But the effectiveness of these measures is clearly limited, because in New York today, the Democratic radicals have a strong voice, most notably Queens Rep. Cortez (AOC), who fully supports the opening of the borders to accept illegal immigrants in "City Hall."
Therefore, it is unlikely that the overall status quo will change until at least 2027, when New York succeeds in replacing the Republican mayor.
With the departure of a large number of middle-class and wealthy voters, the influx of a large number of Latino illegal immigrants, and the change of the voter base, the possibility of a Republican mayor in New York is becoming less and less, and the possibility of New York's complete degeneration is increasing.
Perhaps, the world will never be able to recreate the old New York of the "golden years" of the past.
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