The number of murders on the subways has skyrocketed since 2020. “It used to be ‘I know if I don’t go to this neighborhood, I will be safe,’ but today you don’t have that,” said Professor Maria Haberfeld from CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal, a former lieutenant in the Israel National Police. Together with 2020’s toll, that’s 21 slayings - which is more murders than the transit system saw between 20 combined. So far in 2022, there have already been seven killings. Since 1997, the earliest data The Post was able to access, there had never been more than five subway murders in a single year until the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020 and brought that number up to six for the first time in decades. Killings in the New York City subway system since 2020 have skyrocketed to the highest annual levels in 25 years, even amid plummeting ridership numbers, as the city grapples with an overall spike in random violence, NYPD data show. Lawyer of alleged killer slams Cash App founder Bob Lee’s ‘illegal’ drug use: ‘It was like drugs 101’Īdams’ racial slur on Texas gov: fresh symptom of an all-talk mayor ![]() ![]() ‘I knew this would happen’: NYC shoplifter caught on video hitting Walgreens security guard skips out on court date, warrant issued Nordstrom closing two San Francisco stores over ‘deteriorating situation’ as crime in city surges
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