Take Public Transit? Maybe When It's Safe

And it isn't safe. But then is any part of NYC safe? Stranger fatally stabs NYC man during broad-daylight fight over seat on MTA bus: cops

New York City is more like the Gotham of DC comics every year.

Alvin Francis was riding a shuttle bus along the J train route just before 2 p.m. Sunday at Crescent and Etna Streets in Cypress Hills in Brooklyn when a feud erupted between him and a backpack-wearing passenger over seating, cops and sources said.

The only "description" of the bad guy provided by either the police, or The NY Post, is that he was "wearing a gray sweat suit." No one had a description? Height. Weight. Race? Or was all of that memory-holed for some reason?

If public transit isn't safe at 2PM on a Sunday afternoon, when would it be safe.

This is end result of a couple of decades of Liberal, soft-on-crime policies in the Blue Cities, and Blue States.

I miss living in a civilized society.

>Here is the reference to "The Second Coming" by Yeats that these incidents usually call to mind.

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

This may actually be more in line with Hobbes' Leviathan. The idea that security is required for civilization to endure is not new. Hobbes published Leviathan in 1651. In that book he describes the State of War that ensues when law and order break down.

Western Civilization is built on a foundation of law and order. Without law and order, you can't have nice things. You can't have anything really. Or as Hobbes stated it, when there is no force-of-law to keep people in check, things break down.