New York

7.5 murders per 100,000. So the subway is enormously safer than the average American location. That's not a bad political message at all.

The "crime is out of control!!1!" message is a republiQan trope to keep us frightened and to make us want to give cops armor and tanks. All the better if they can make people believe it about a blue city.

And as far as the overall threat of violence, again, we're talking about 579 assaults taking place in a system that handles over a billion rides a year. Again, that's pretty safe.

We're often fed bogus statistics in this argument like "a gazillion percent increase in crime since 2020." Well yes. That's because no one was riding in 2020. The problem is, most people believe it. But look at current numbers against 2019 and you will see a very different story.