Subway Shootings: New York and Moscow

A recent fatal shooting at a New York City subway station was videoed and reported by the local CBS television channel.

But as explained in The New York Times, the video broadcast by CBS was not from an MTA surveillance camera.

It was recorded by a passenger on his mobile phone. 

Compare that to a shooting in a Moscow subway station.  

As can be viewed here security cameras—not a passenger's mobile phone—recorded an event very similar to the New York incident, a fight that ended with gunfire. 

Not only does Moscow have what New York does not—security cameras in stations that record crimes—but as reported by the Daily Mail Moscow even has security cameras inside subway cars. 

In one incident those cameras recorded an attack in which the victim was shot. Russian media published videos which clearly show the faces of the attackers. 

These Daily Mail photos are from the video:

So which subway system is run with greater concern for the lives of its passengers? 

To be sure, if a passenger is shot in the New York subway the police will react professionally. But this site is about track homicides, unwitnessed killings that are automatically blamed on the victim by a police force that is committed, when such events occur, not to law enforcement or arresting criminals, but to protecting the MTA.

As for management of the MTA I wonder if they are proud to lag so far behind the Russians in installing security cameras that can be used to record murders, including unwitnessed track murders. Or are they—and their lawyers—glad they can continue to blame victims for their horrific deaths? 

 © 2015 by James Graham