Five straight days of attacks in the subway: Welcome to the world progressives knowingly created.
From Sunday night’s knifing in an L station to Thursday morning’s stabbing of an off-duty MTA worker on a Bronx platform, the violence follows on the horrific pre-Christmas arson-murder of Debrina Kawam and includes Tuesday’s miraculously-not-fatal shoving onto tracks in Manhattan.
And the hell-ification of the underground is a predictable consequence of “social justice” policies.
Take Kamel Hawkins, 23 and charged with second-degree assault and attempted murder for after shoving that unsuspecting stranger in front of an incoming 1 train.
No surprise: His long rap sheet includes a 2019 attack on a cop police officer, plus an assault, harassment and weapons possession charge from October and a 2020 case where the judge released him without bail despite prosecutors asking for remand.
Keep letting violent perps walk free, and the violence grows — but progs insist going easy on criminals matters more than preventing innocent people from being killed or maimed.
They’ve told us this.
Way back in 2007, Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm, one of the first wave of radical “reform” prosecutors, laid it out: “Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into a treatment program, who’s going to go out and kill somebody? You bet. Guaranteed. It’s guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach.”
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and the state legislators behind New York’s “criminal justice reforms” might not be as frank about it, but they make the same calculation.
As do those who proclaim the moral urgency of letting the dangerously mental ill roam free and untreated, or allowing millions of unvetted illegal migrants — rapists, murders and gangbangers among them — to cross the border.
“Enforcing the law” is an inherently evil, white-supremist project that must be eradicated; the people who get robbed, raped or murdered along the way are collateral damage.
Debrina Kawam at 57 was reportedly homeless and struggling with mental illness — just the kind of vulnerable soul progressives claim to care about even though “caring” somehow means they’re left out on the streets.
And her alleged killer was another official “victim”: An illegal migrant benefiting from the Biden open border and Gotham’s de Blasio-inflated sanctuary rules.
And the whole sad wave of underground violence is a predictable — indeed, predicted — result of the progressive refusal to fight farebeating, the “gateway drug” of subway crime.
The needless, bloody chaos won’t stop until this poisonous ideology is rejected at every level of government.
