By Aidan Gardiner
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The NYPD and the MTA will soon release the video tape of this dead-of-the-night event using the anti-crime cameras that exist throughout the system.
The New York police are well aware that the late night hours are favored by criminals who attack lone victims and they assure the public that if this was a homicide the entire force will soon be looking for the perpetrator (perpetrators?) once identity is established.
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An important and enduring sign that protecting the MTA takes precedence over protecting passengers (or apprehending criminals) is the lack of surveillance cameras that could record violent subway crimes and aid the authorities in prosecuting perpetrators. The lack of such cameras enables MTA attorneys, assisted by cooperative police, to blame the victim … and allows violent criminals to go unpunished.Other subway systems that are thoroughly surveilled by cameras have recorded and released to the public acts of criminal violence in Philadelphia, Chicago, Philadelphia (again), London, Moscow, Moscow (again) and Washington DC.
Since the 9/11 attack, with the encouragement and financial support of the federal government, the MTA has been installing anti-terrorist surveillance cameras. But even those cameras may threaten the MTA’s ability to blame victims; in at least one case plaintiff's attorneys have asked the court to order release of recordings by anti-terror cameras.
MANHATTAN — A man laying in the track bed of the 77th Street subway station was fatally struck by a train ahead of Tuesday morning's rush-hour commute, police said.
He was hit by a northbound train about 4:30 a.m. in the station near Lexington Avenue, an NYPD spokesman said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
It wasn't immediately clear how he came to be lying in the tracks. Police are still investigating, they said.
Begin sarcasm.
The NYPD and the MTA will soon release the video tape of this dead-of-the-night event using the anti-crime cameras that exist throughout the system.
The New York police are well aware that the late night hours are favored by criminals who attack lone victims and they assure the public that if this was a homicide the entire force will soon be looking for the perpetrator (perpetrators?) once identity is established.
End sarcasm.
An important and enduring sign that protecting the MTA takes precedence over protecting passengers (or apprehending criminals) is the lack of surveillance cameras that could record violent subway crimes and aid the authorities in prosecuting perpetrators. The lack of such cameras enables MTA attorneys, assisted by cooperative police, to blame the victim … and allows violent criminals to go unpunished.Other subway systems that are thoroughly surveilled by cameras have recorded and released to the public acts of criminal violence in Philadelphia, Chicago, Philadelphia (again), London, Moscow, Moscow (again) and Washington DC.
Since the 9/11 attack, with the encouragement and financial support of the federal government, the MTA has been installing anti-terrorist surveillance cameras. But even those cameras may threaten the MTA’s ability to blame victims; in at least one case plaintiff's attorneys have asked the court to order release of recordings by anti-terror cameras.
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