If someone is going to commit a crime in front of other people, then I'm not sure they'll think twice if those other people are cops.
There just being people around makes people hesitant to commit a crime, if that's not a big enough deterrent, then the police probably won't change that.

this is just a dumb take.

doing crimes in front of regular people isnt equal to doing it infront of law enforcement.

All g, not even trying to detract from your larger point

I hope all the posters living in the city and their fam are safe, complete f***ing nightmare scenario

I’m seeing brain dead arguments on both sides

Can we just get a collective “Fuck NYPD”

Anybody that disagrees banned for life

Crime still happens regardless and no amount of police is gonna change that bro, don't be this dense

Tbh of all people do you think niggas who commit legit terrorist attacks give a f*** if police present

I’m sayin

friend of a friend missed the train by 5 min 🙏🏼

The replies to the tweet are all bots trying to stoke political flames.

guy was dressed up too, he was doing it regardless

Thread ain’t even talking about this anymore

The argument at this point is purely being pro or against police presence in the subway period

Obviously there’s no way to prevent planned terrorist attacks with standard police officers. They can prevent other things tho. There’s a whole host of s*** wrong with NYC crime that needs addressing outside of that

Welcome back.

can’t wait to find out what the FBI knew already knew abt this

Thats a crazy stance to take

Im okay with a police presence in the subway
Expecting them to be everywhere at once that is unrealistic

theres different levels to it

theres preventing it from happening at all
lessening damage done
catching the suspect before they get away or god forbid doing it again

no one is saying police presence 100% stops all crime from occuring, police presence can play a role in the s*** i just listed above

Okay and if there’s cop everywhere what you gonna do then?

How is that not in favor of more police presence lmao

You just said nobody is gonna rob someone in front of a cop. Why not put them everywhere?

Facts, these people think cops can read minds or something

Lol no im agreeing w you

Maybe it was ambiguous my b

maybe consider the budget, the size of the police force, and how many stations there are in the city

ok well, first, no it won't drastically affect anything.

I agree, it will lower the chance of crimes happening. At what cost though? Often, increased police presence might initially decrease crimes in some places, but the long-term result is an increase in poverty, an increase in unjust incarceration, and as a result, a gradual increase in long-term crime rates 🤷‍♂️

and then what folks usually do is throw even more police at the issue. which only furthers that cycle. In addition to being an ineffective solution in the long term, that cycle also has some serious negative effects. Not only will it have negligible impacts on long term crime, it will also probably make the surrounding community poorer and land a LOT of innocent people in jail, especially if we're talking about a minority community.

i guess the long answer is, yeah i agree, more police in metro stations will probably decrease crime in the short term, but this comes at a serious cost in the long term, both in terms of quality of life and overall equity and justice.

idiots itt thinking we mean more police presence = 100% of crime stopped