Penn Station slash spree: Letters

The Concern: A homeless man with a number of priors who’s accused of slashing 5 folks in Penn Station.

I wish to commend The Submit for protecting the knife assault at Penn Station (“Penn: Demand Higher,” Editorial, June 9).

I can solely surprise how far more harm may have been executed if that maniac had a gun as an alternative of a knife. I can’t assist questioning why so many individuals, together with Mayor Mamdani, cling to their “defund the police” madness, and why additionally they oppose proactive police insurance policies like “cease and frisk.”

Incidents just like the Penn Station assault and different current assaults on law enforcement officials and the aged show that we’d like much more law enforcement officials — and we additionally have to help them as a lot as we will.

John Francis Fox

Sunnyside

The Penn Station slashing ought to qualify for a reason behind motion in opposition to all of the companies charged with the safety of transit passengers.

For much too lengthy have indigent and emotionally disturbed folks been the topic of benign neglect by companies liable for the security of commuters. They’ve traditionally been protected by regulation to loiter with no goal in public venues.

This qualifies for the well-known Dickens idiom that claims “the regulation is an ass.” It’s time for a change.

Phil Serpico

Queens

New York has succeeded in getting lots of weapons off the streets, however now all I examine are stabbings. Are the politicians coming after our knives subsequent? The place does all of it finish?

There’s just one resolution: Get the miscreants off our streets, lock them up, throw away the keys and let law-abiding residents dwell our lives. Additionally cease demonizing regulation enforcement and voting for soft-on-crime politicians or it’ll simply hold getting worse.

Marion Friedman

The Bronx

It’s time to cease utilizing the time period “emotionally disturbed particular person.” The one that stabbed 5 folks in Penn Station isn’t emotionally disturbed — he’s criminally insane. Criminally insane folks 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 unique consequence — that’s what the politicians are.

Peter Goldring

Freehold, NJ

Society can not stand this. The subways are not protected for residents. It’s as much as NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch to inform Mamdami to take his cameras and stick it.

Ship police squads down into the subways, hunt these animals and end the job. No extra District Lawyer Alvin Bragg or liberal judges.

Invoice Verderose

Brooklyn

Gov. Hochul’s 2022 Hid Carry Enchancment Act made it against the law 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 variety of weapons on the road throughout the previous two administrations have been directed solely at law-abiding residents. Good job, governor.

Robert Mangi

Backyard Metropolis

One other stabbing, solely the names and faces have modified. This time it’s Penn Station. The widespread 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 needs to be a wake-up name for our political elite. This isn’t a celebration situation; it’s a couple of society which is failing to guard its residents by cleansing up the streets. It’s time to make this funding. Patchwork repairs coping with the homeless inhabitants will not be working.

Ronald Frank

West Orange, NJ

A homeless and mentally sick man stabbed 5 innocents in a knife assault in Penn Station. That is appalling, and this egregious and nefarious act ought to by no means have occurred.

Mayor Mamdani ought to do extra to guard residents in New York Metropolis. The NYPD needs to be alert relating to the mentally sick and homeless folks hanging out on our metropolis streets. If not, could God defend us all as a result of the mayor is not going to.

Frederick Bedell Jr.

Bellerose

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