Teen found dead on Bronx train tracks at 2:30 am

A 17-year-old boy in the Bronx was found dead with burns on his body on the northbound 6 train tracks early Tuesday, police said.

A 911 call led police to an unconscious teen inside the Whitlock Avenue Train Station in Foxhurst near Lowell St. around 2:30 a.m., cops said.

The boy had burn marks on his torso and paramedics declared him dead at the scene. Medical Examiners [!] carried the body out of the Foxhurst train station. His identity and cause of death were not immediately known.

 ... As of last Wednesday, 44 people have been killed by train this year — either maliciously or by taking their own lives. A man lost his toes early Monday after a pal pushed him into an oncoming train in Chelsea.

What are the odds that the NYPD has alerted all its detectives to this unwitnessed violent death, ordering them to use their CI's (confidential informants) who may have "heard something" about an early morning attack that ended in this death? My opinion: zero.

More opinion: the Transit Bureau of the NYPD has established a record of ensuring that mysterious violent deaths are never treated as possible homicides.

More opinion: based on my daily reading of news sites, how many of those 44 killings were even mentioned by any news media. My estimate: fewer than one-half. If the media is not informed of the death by the MTA or the NYPD they will not report it.

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Teen Attacked by Four Men, Robbed of iPhone at TriBeCa Subway Stop: NYPD

A teen was punched by four attackers who stole his iPhone 6 as he rode the E train, police said.

The 19-year-old told police he was surrounded by four men at the Canal Street stop on the northbound train at about 3:30 a.m. on Oct. 22. The men grabbed his phone along with $200 after hitting him several times in his face.

The group then fled the train. 

Police were still investigating the incident.

When attacks happened in cities whose transit police are devoted to protecting the public and not to protecting the civil attorneys concerned about law suits, the police have ensured that crime sites are covered by surveillance cameras and the police release videos of actual crimes. It has happened in Philadelphia, Chicago, Philadelphia (again), London, Moscow, Moscow (again) and Washington DC.

But never in New York.  Thanks to the Transit Bureau headed by Joseph Fox.

Just for laughs, here's a quote from the Transit Bureau's home page:

It is the mission of the Transit Bureau to ensure the safety and order of all persons on the New York City rapid transit system, to reduce the fear and apprehension of the riding public, and to serve as the Police Department’s primary provider of police services to the transit system.