Penn Station slash spree: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: A homeless man with a number of priors who’s accused of slashing 5 people in Penn Station.
I need to commend The Post for masking the knife assault at Penn Station (“Penn: Demand Better,” Editorial, June 9).
I can solely marvel how a lot more harm might have been finished if that maniac had a gun as an alternative of a knife. I can’t help questioning why so many people, together with Mayor Mamdani, cling to their “defund the police” madness, and why in addition they oppose proactive police insurance policies like “stop and frisk.”
Incidents just like the Penn Station assault and different current assaults on police officers and the aged show that we need a lot more police officers — and we additionally need to help them as a lot as we will.
John Francis Fox
Sunnyside
The Penn Station slashing ought to qualify for a trigger of motion in opposition to all of the businesses charged with the safety of transit passengers.
For far too long have indigent and emotionally disturbed people been the subject of benign neglect by businesses chargeable for the protection of commuters. They have traditionally been protected by law to loiter with no goal in public venues.
This qualifies for the well-known Dickens idiom that claims “the law is an ass.” It is time for a change.
Phil Serpico
Queens
New York has succeeded in getting a lot of weapons off the streets, however now all I examine are stabbings. Are the politicians coming after our knives subsequent? Where does all of it finish?
There’s just one answer: Get the miscreants off our streets, lock them up, throw away the keys and let law-abiding residents reside our lives. Also stop demonizing law enforcement and voting for soft-on-crime politicians or it’s going to simply keep getting worse.
Marion Friedman
The Bronx
It’s time to stop utilizing the time period “emotionally disturbed person.” The one who stabbed 5 people in Penn Station isn’t emotionally disturbed — he’s criminally insane. Criminally insane people belong in insane asylums.
Don’t confuse any of this with being loopy. The definition of loopy is doing the identical factor repeatedly and anticipating a totally different end result — that’s what the politicians are.
Peter Goldring
Freehold, NJ
Society can no longer stand this. The subways are no longer secure for residents. It’s up to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to inform Mamdami to take his cameras and stick it.
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Send police squads down into the subways, hunt these animals and end the job. No more District Attorney Alvin Bragg or liberal judges.
Bill Verderose
Brooklyn
Gov. Hochul’s 2022 Concealed Carry Improvement Act made it a crime for residents with pistol permits to hold weapons in most public locations. By doing so, she turned these public locations into kill zones the place solely criminals carry weapons. The outcomes are predictable.
Criminals know their victims will likely be unarmed. Efforts to scale back the quantity of weapons on the road during the previous two administrations have been directed solely at law-abiding residents. Good job, governor.
Robert Mangi
Garden City
Another stabbing, solely the names and faces have modified. This time it’s Penn Station. The common denominators are the deranged homeless people and a revolving-door judicial system. What does it take for politicians to have an effect on actual change?
This must be a wake-up call for our political elite. This isn’t a celebration situation; it’s about a society which is failing to guard its residents by cleansing up the streets. It’s time to make this investment. Patchwork repairs coping with the homeless population aren’t working.
Ronald Frank
West Orange, NJ
A homeless and mentally in poor health man stabbed 5 innocents in a knife assault in Penn Station. This is appalling, and this egregious and nefarious act ought to by no means have occurred.
Mayor Mamdani ought to do more to guard residents in New York City. The NYPD must be alert in the case of the mentally in poor health and homeless people hanging out on our metropolis streets. If not, might God defend us all as a result of the mayor is not going to.
Frederick Bedell Jr.
Bellerose
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