Three Subway Crimes ... but No Surveillance Photos

1. Man Groped 12-year-Old Boy on N Train, Police Say

2. Knife-Wielding Thief Snatches Woman's Bag as She Rides the 1 Train: NYPD

3. Quick-Thinking Victim Snaps Picture of Groper on 4 Train, Police Say

Once again the MTA/NYPD demonstrates it is less concerned about protecting passengers from criminals, less concerned about identifying criminals so they might be arrested than the managers of subways in Philadelphia, Washington DC and Moscow, Russia.

NYPD Releases Video of a Crime!

A street crime.

Not a subway crime.

Crimes do not occur in the New York subway system.

At least, no crimes that are recorded by NYPD videos and released to the media.

Surveillance Camera in Subway Car Records an Assault

In Chicago.

Not in New York.

Never in New York.

The New York Daily News reports these not-in-New-York surveillance camera stories but their editors never complain about the lack of cameras in the world's largest mass transit system.

Attack on a Subway Platform Recorded on Surveillance Video!

In Philadelphia.

Never in New York.

Possible reasons:

Either ...

1. New York's MTA and the NYPD run the most crime-free mass transit system in the world.

 ... OR ...

2. New York's MTA with the eager assistance of the NYPD operate the Western world's*  most successful suppression of "unpleasant" news.

*North Korea may be more suppressive.

See it: Mob of teenagers beats two high school students in Philadelphia subway station.

Does New York have a single video surveillance camera pointed at subway platforms?

Moscow, Philadelphia and Washington DC have Surveillance Cameras

New York subway riders are just as decent and as brave as the DC passengers who rescued a man who accidentally drove his motorized wheelchair off the platform and down to the dangerous Metro tracks.

But New York City's MTA managers, unlike the people in charge of the DC Metro, has made sure there are no cameras in place recording activity 24/7 on platforms. In my opinion they would not like those cameras because they would also record attacks by criminals on passengers. Without the cameras the MTA can continue to blame the victims of track homicides.

Here's a surveillance photo of the man tumbling onto the tracks. Note that the photo is copyrighted by the Washington Area Metro Transit Authority.

Here's a link where you can watch the surveillance video of the rescue.

When will the MTA catch up with other cities?

When will New York's media even notice how dismally their city's subway compares to other cities in the matter of surveillance?








 

Philadelphia Subway Has What The MTA Does Not

Once again news is made in a subway system equipped with surveillance cameras pointing at platforms.

Not a crime this time but a rescue of a passenger who fell to the tracks.

Have the wonderful people who run the New York system's MTA ever released surveillance tapes of any newsworthy event?

Does anyone holding an important position in any of New York's vaunted media care that his city's transit system continues to lag behind all others?

Are camera's lacking in New York's system because the MTA and the NYPD do not want tapes released of unwitnessed fatal "accidents" that were really homicides?

Philadelphia Subway Crime Video

Not only does the management of the Moscow subway release videos of crimes occurring in their system so do the people in charge of Philadelphia's system.

But New York's MTA is unrelenting in its utter contempt for the safety of passengers.

Cameras would make life difficult for two classes of people that MTA management obviously considers more important than fare-paying passengers: its own lawyers and violence-prone criminals.

The New York system has lots of cameras pointing at turnstiles where petty criminals might cheat the MTA out of petty sums if they avoid paying fares. 

But when it comes to protecting passengers from violent criminals the MTA and the NYPD show by their actions what they consider important ... and what they do not.